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AWARDS AT PARIS

The Honors in the Fine-Art Department.

[Correspondence of The Evening Post.]
PARIS, July 23.
THE Americans cannot complain that they have not been sufficiently recognized in the distribution of recompenses in the departments of the fine arts.
On the contrary, the International Jury, composed of the representatives from each of the countries taking part in the exhibition, has given to our painters their full share of official recognition. The list here given will show this conclusively enough. The exhibitors number 356 in the five classes included in group L (fine arts), and there are 572 works exhibited in all. Three medals of honor and seventy-two medals of the first, second, and third class have been awarded, and in addition to this are thirty-three honorable mentions. In a few cases the same artist has received more than one recompense on account of the merit of his work in the different classes. The exhibition of the United States, which, including the works sent to Paris by the home artists and those exhibited by American artists residing in France and other countries in Europe, fills four large galleries, has attracted much favourable notice from the artists and the public. It is generally considered the most important display in the exhibition after that of the French themselves. Here is the list:

Class I., oil paintings: Medals of honor - John S. Sargent, J. Gari Melchers. First-class medals - Alexander Harrison, George Hitchcock, Eugene L. Vail, and Edwin L. Weeks. Second-class medals - F. M. Boggs, F. A. Bridgman, William M. Chase, Charles H. Davis, Thomas W. Dewing, Ruger Donoho, Walter Gay, Birge Harrison, William H. Howe, D. R. Knight, Walter MacEwen, Henry Mosler, C. S. Reinhart, and J. Alden Weir. Third-class medals-W.S. Allen, J. Carroll Beckwith, Edward A. Bell Edwin H. Bashfield, Robert Blum, R. B. Brandegee, Howard R. Butler, William A. Coffin, Kenyon Cox, W. P. W. Dana, L. D. Delachaux, W. L. Dodge, H.F. Farny, Charles F. Forbes, Frank Fowler, Elizabeth J. Gardner, Gilbert Gaul, R. Swain Gifford, Carl Guthrez, James M. Hart, Childe Hassam, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, H. Bolton Jones, Anna E. Klumpke, R. C. Minor, H. Humphrey Moore, J. Douglas Patrick, Clinton Peters, Wm. T. Richards, Edward E. Simmons, Julian R. Story, Abbott H. Thayer, Wordsworth Thompson, G. S. Truesdell, Charles F. Ulrich, Robert W. Vonnoh, and Horatio Walker. The following receive honorable mention: J. L. Breck, J. B. Bristol, J. G. Brown, George B. Butler, Ralph Curtis, Herbert Denman, A. W. Dow, P. A. Gross, M. F. H. De Haas, C. H. Hayden E. L. Henry, Robert Koehler, Wilson de Meza, Jervis McEntee, J. C. Nicholl, Arthur Parton, H. G. Plumb, Walter Shirlaw, Charles H. Theriat, C. Y. Turner, Elihu Vedder, S. E. Whiteman, Worthington Whittredge, and A. H. Wyant.

Class II., paintings of other kinds and drawings: First medals-Edwin A. Abbey and C. S. Reinhart. Second medals-Robert Blum, Will H. Low, Frederick Remington, Julius Rolshoven, Rosing E. Sherwood, and William J. Whittemore. Third medals-Kenyon Cox and J. Alden Weir. Honorable mentions-W.H. Drake, Kathleen H. Greatorex, Joseph Pennell, and Irving R. Wiles.

Class III., sculpture : Medal of Honor-Paul W. Bartlett; third medal-H. H. Kitson; honorable mentions-S. Herbert Adams and Olin L. Warner.

Class IV., architecture : No awards.

Class V., engravings and lithographs : First medal-Eldridge Kingsley; second medals-William B. Closson and John P. Davis; third medals-W. M. Aikman and S. G. Putnam; honorable mentions-H. Davidson, G. Kruell, and Henry Wolf. 

It should be noted that the three medals of honor and six of the seven first-class medals (Mr. Kingsley's medal for engraving being the one exception), all go to American artists residing abroad. In oil-painting, out of fourteen second-class medals, only four go to artists residing in the United States, and it is not until the third-class medals are reached that the proportion becomes more equal, where the figures are seventeen for the Franco-Americans and twenty-one for the home artists. In the honorable mentions nine go to Europe, as against fifteen to the United States.  The members of the International Jury for the United States were Messrs. William T. Dannat and Charles Sprague Pearce of Paris and Commissioner of Fine Arts Rush C. Hawkins. Messrs. Dannat and Pearce are both represented in the exhibition by notable works, but, by the conditions of acceptance of a place on the jury, they were ineligible for medals-or hors concours, to use the term employed in France. They will probably receive the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor in recognition of their labors. American artists who exhibited in the British section received the following recompenses: First medal, J. McNeill Whistler; second  medals, Francis D. Millet, Mark Fisher and Arthur Parsons. Mr. Millet also has a picture in the American section, having been, through a variety of causes, prevented from showing al this pictures in the same place.  W.A.C.
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