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Dean Edmund C. Campbell, Dean of the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, will give the course in advanced design at the Architectural School this summer, Dean G. H. Edgell '00 announced last night. Dean Camphell is one of the leading architectural authorities in the country, and was the administrative officer who brought the architectural school of the Armour Institute of Chicago to its present position of eminence...
...Keezer was forced quite by accident to be ranked among patrons of the beaux arts, when he purchased the estate of the late Gilmore Clapp. When the estate came to Keezer there were some pictures in it, among them the Whistler etching...
...Miss Beaux, Manhattan artist in her late fifties, is self-taught. In 1896, six of her portraits were hung together in the May Salon—a rare distinction. She has painted Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Martina Brandegee, the late President Sharpless of Haverford, all exhibited in Manhattan...
...because of a certain modesty of attempt in many of the pictures, there seemed to be in this, as in other women's exhibitions, a note of apology. The most impressive work in painting and drawing was a portrait study in oil and several charcoal heads by Cecilia Beaux, "dean of feminists in Art";* in sculpture, by Malvina Hoffman, who took a prize with her bust of Paderewski...
Balloting resulted in the election of : Émile Picard, member of the Academy of Science and professor of mathematics at the Sorbonne; Albert Besnard, Director of the Académie des Beaux Arts, best known artist in France; Georges Lecomte, journalist, author, playwright, historian, critic - literary handy man. The latter's political biography of ex-Premier Georges Clemenceau is said to be the best of its kind...