Munsey's Magazine, July 1895

This issue of Munsey's Magazine (July 1895, Vol. XIII, No. 4) contains an extended "Artists and Their Work" section featuring critical commentary on contemporary American and European art. The coverage includes discussion of the Sculpture Society's New York exhibition, with works by Daniel Chester French, Paulding Farnham, and Miss Bessie Potter of Chicago featured prominently. The National Academy of Design's May election receives substantial attention, with conservative President Wood's reelection over challenger Frederick Dielman discussed as a broader debate about modernism in American art. The issue covers major New York art auctions, including a Vandyke portrait selling for $50,000, and provides biographical profiles of portrait painter A. Muller Ury and impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. American artists exhibiting at the Paris Salons receive coverage, as do mural decoration projects for Boston's Public Library by Sargent and Abbey. The section concludes with remarks on landscape painter R.M. Shurtleff and the state of English art. A poem titled "Duel" by Clinton Scollard appears mid-section, and the issue opens discussion of new English writers.