The Salmagundi Club, being a history of its beginning as a sketch class, its public service as the Black and White Society, and its career as a club from 1871-1918, with illustrations [electronic resource] . on the merits of the sketches, or, as theyoften were, finished pictures, the one receivingthe highest number of votes becoming the prop-erty of the club. Some of these pictures are stillon the walls, as a landscape by Fitler and ahorse and cart, by Frank Green. Mr. Samuel T. Shaw, who was then the chair-man of the house committee, established a cock-tail closet in the corner of the room, t
The Salmagundi Club, being a history of its beginning as a sketch class, its public service as the Black and White Society, and its career as a club from 1871-1918, with illustrations [electronic resource] . on the merits of the sketches, or, as theyoften were, finished pictures, the one receivingthe highest number of votes becoming the prop-erty of the club. Some of these pictures are stillon the walls, as a landscape by Fitler and ahorse and cart, by Frank Green. Mr. Samuel T. Shaw, who was then the chair-man of the house committee, established a cock-tail closet in the corner of the room, the revenuefrom which, more substantial than the revenueof Cockchafers, Locusts, and Periwinkles of theoriginal Lairdship of Salmagundin, was devotedto framing the successful pictures, by which ac-tion the chairman of the house committee outdidPanurge, the eccentric hero of Rabelais. On January 24, 1898, the decoration of thefront hall was authorized by the executive com-mittee. This plan of decoration contemplated adado of paintings, twenty inches in depth, set ina framework of ebonized wood and extendingaround the walls of this rectangular room. Thesepaintings, on the eve of their removal to the new. R, o -a rr~ ^> OQ I -2 1^ X 1 H £ M * rt -O H 3> /. = a 1 £ c*- * -3 J l kJ >- £1 c 87 : house, after nearly twenty years in their presentsetting, deserve at least an enumeration. Theywere painted on mahogany panels and varied inwidth, the smaller uprights being sixteen incheswide and the larger ones thirty inches. Theywere in the best manner of the artists repre-sented. The large panels were by J. Francis Mur-phy, F. K. M. Rehn, Robert Minor, R. M. Shurt-leff, Bolton Jones, Frank Green, Frederick Nae-gele, George H. McCord, Thomas Craig, HenryMosler, and James Tyler. The smaller panels are signed by W. C. Fitler,William Verplanck Birney, Van Laer, FrankJones, Paul Moran, De Scott Evans, Carl J. Blen-ner, Herbert Morgan, W. H. Shelton, Charles , J. N. Mar
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