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- - • — -■ I ILl-Sketch Club.—The regular mooting of this association of artists was held Saturday, even- Houalng, at E. R. Gard’s Photograghic gallery, No. .one,1f: ^|T ^ ’ .7 **7 7 fPP , w ~ w w i106 West Fourth street, Mr. W. R. Adams in sby the chair. There was a large attendance, but • the principal business which occupied the at- j tention of the Club, was arranging for the future of the new periodical published by the Society, entitled the “Sketch Club,” a neatly printed quarto, the first number of which was j ■ published on Saturday. I *After some discussion, it wa^^olved that J W. W. Fosdick. Eso.. should assume the edi- if 1*torial responsibility, and Mr. Thor^aa Franklin the business management, a committee of five beiDg also appointed to solicit subscriptions, it being understood, however, that each member should in this matter make himselfJgenerally useful. The usual comnext occupied the attention of the meeting, ar.d they were generally pronounced the bestpresented. “The Pioneer” wasIthe subject, and it was illustratelt;kbs about a■edozen ingenious sketches. There was a very ! m) suggestive drawing by James II. Beard, representing a pioneer watching for his foe, the Indian. “The Indian Pioneer Scalp,” a red §kin holding in his hand the first trophy, torn from the skull of his foe; by F. Beard.“The Arctic Pioneer,*’ a bold sketch of a vessel struggling amid the icebergs of a polar sea, by an artist whose name we failed to note. “Romulus Describing the Plan of the FutureCity of Rome to the 8hepherd,” by HenryMosler. jProtecting his Family,” a cap- ij]^1ital back-wood sketch, by J. Beard, Jr. • *i°n* rentCincinnati as it was and is, illustrated by five sketches from the graphic pencil of Worra as follows: “The First Alarm,” “The FiiHome,” “The First Law,” “The Pioneer wlw ould Live too Long,” the old fellow beltrepresented in his nome-spun garb, amidst fashionable gathering of modern beaux, ateptapan extensive range of crinoline; and the fifth and centre tableau, a sketch of Smith Nixon’s Hall, with a band of Ethiopean minstrels upon the stage, and a sarcastic inscription, alluding to the desecration of the pioneer grave-vard. unon which the buildimr stands.:AlWTU**MjM“The Captive White Woman and the Indian,” by Theodore Jones.Two sketches, by W. Noble—one a humorous representation of a left-n3n(ted pioneerbelonging to a German company, th» other said to be a faithful likeness of the first house of worship in Cincinnati, in 1790, a small log cabin, with a vigilant sentry without, keepingward with the ever companionable rifle.A very capital sketch, the joint effort of Messrs. Hillen and 8bobe, of worshiping in vu*,the woods. tilisf“The Pioneers Attacked by Indians,” by jipoSyMcComus. -The next semi-monthly meeting will be held at Mr. J. F. Hillen’s, No. 25 West Fourth street, and the subject upon which the members are to display their ingenuity Is the ever fruitful theme of “Harvest.”We are glad to notice the successful progress of the association, whi A now numbers about eighty members, and as lovers of art, in all its beautiful and humanizing features, we wish it God speed.A1Ir\ vrv m/A marWl
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Mon, Apr 02, 1860
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