Prix de Rome

"Unmarried men, citizens of the U. S., not over 30 years old" may compete for four annual Prix de Rome scholarships.* One prize is for painting, one for sculpture, one for architecture, one for landscaping. The winners receive, $1,250 cash yearly for three years, plus free lodgings and studios at the American Academy in Rome, plus life membership/- in the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan.

In 1925 and again in 1926 one of the four Roman prizemen was a student at the Yale University School of Fine Arts. Last week, when two of the 1927 awards were announced to 34 competitors, both winners were Yale teacher-students, each 24 years old, each equipped with a small, dark mustache.

George Holburn Snowden, of Bridgeport, Conn., winner of twelve Beaux Arts competitions in sculpture, had submitted a slim, upright, nude, plaster girl, "Flora," playing with her hair.

Dunbar Dyson Beck, son of an Indianapolis, Ind., airbrake manufacturer, had submitted several canvases, the central one representing the eternal Madonna and Child in an "Adoration."

Rodin Accepted

Philadelphia, city of feuds in art and music, gave official approval last week to the late Sculptor August Rodin. Mayor Kendrick, after conferring with his subordinates, announced that, yes, the city would accept from Jules E. Mastbaum, theatre owner and philanthropist, a million-dollar collection of Sculptor Rodin's works and a $400,000 museum to keep them in. Architects Paul Cret and Jacques Greber having completed their plans, there was nothing further to hinder the museum's erection at Parkway & 23rd St.

*Founded by a group of architects and artists including Charles F. McKim, John La Farge, E. H. Blashfield, Daniel Chester French, in 1897, under the stimulus of the Chicago World's Fair. These Prix de Rome are not to be confused with the Grand Prix de Rome, an annual French Government award to only one painter, sculptor, engraver, architect or musician, instituted by Napoleon in 1803.

/-Valued at $1,800.