The annual appointment of the Bay area Art-Association was held March 3ist. Reports from your various officers were browse, showilig the fact that Society is at a prospering condition. The college of Design and style, conducted beneath the auspices from the Society, is growing rapidly, and the proficiency proven by the pupils is very adequate to the representatives. The elec tion of officers, kept on the same day, resulted the following: Presi drop, William Alvord, First Vice-President, Samuel M. Brookes, Second Vice-President, WVilliam Norris, Admin, Samuel Purdy, Treasurer, Ferdinand H. Rogers, Directors, Pietro Mezzara, R. S. Rose bush, J. C. Duncani, Steve T. Greatest, S. T. Shaw, and Silas Selleck. The Bay area artists have got mostly revoked work, and are preparing to keep their galleries for their total annual sketching-tours. In the Beaux-Arts Gallery, Thomas Mountain exhibits two forest views, which are pervaded by a sensitive grey strengthen, and in execu tion go beyond any of his previous efforts. Ford, the Chicago musician, has a woocded landscape-picture in exhibition exact same gallery, and Wandesforde is represented by a view of just one of the quests of Lower California. Inside the studios, William Keith is definitely engaged after a large picture representing a scene close to the head-waters in the Merced. In the distance would be the snow-capped highs of the Macizo, the middle range showing a scene of rifted ordinary and darkened gleni, whilst a long spread around of upland broken with trees varieties the foreground.
THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION OF I875. -Mr. John N. Stafford, a gentleman of culture and taste, have been appointed to takecharge in the Art section of the Chicago Exposition, which usually opens in September next. Mr. Stafford has already stopped at New York and other cities when it comes to securing works of art for the display, and nearly all of the main artists have promised to contribute to that. The event last year was organised simply by Mr. Holly W. Derby, and was one of the most significant and greatest Art shows ever exposed in this region. It is to be hoped the fact that Exposition com pany have been completely equally fortuitous in the appointment of an agent the year, and the cominog display may combine the6attrac tive elements anchored by Mr. Derby for this of last season.
ARTWORK AT HARVARD COLLEGE. -The Faculty of Harvard Lacet lege include under consideration the expediency of establishing next year two or more courses in Art. A history of Skill it is expert posed to keep in a bigger course, another and advanced course inside the principles of drawing will probably be established. What is now Fine art I. will certainly continue to devote an hour a week to Ruskins Modern Artists and four several hours to attracting, while the larger course is going to adopt while text-books different works of Ruskin, most likely Sir Joshua Reynoldss Discourses, and possibly the 1 Treatise on Fine art, by Leonardo da Vinci.
PICTURE SIMPLY BY MERLE. -One of the most desirable works for Gou pils recently continues to be Merles Fairy Tales, in which a charming dude appears sitting down in the open surroundings, in the miclst of a number of children, match fairy-stories. The attitudes in the childreni happen to be graceful, as well as the expression of eagerness which in turn each very little face reveals to get every phrase that is catagorized from the quite story-tellers lips is very enchanting to study. The facial skin of the audio, too, beams with intelligence and love, and the group altogether forms one of the most beautifuLl pictures, symbolizing the term of Merle, in this country. In shade, finish, and harmony of expression, the job shows the very best development of nodern art.
