Munsey's Magazine, February 1897

This February 1897 issue of Munsey's Magazine features an illustrated article on contemporary art exhibitions and artists. The opening section surveys New York club exhibitions of modern art, noting that institutions like the Manhattan Club and Union League Club have showcased work throughout the season, though exhibitions appear fewer this year. Included are discussions of the National Academy of Design's winter exhibition, which critics found mediocre, and the Carnegie Institution's exhibition in Pittsburgh, which attracted international painters and awarded $8,000 prizes to American artists Winslow Homer and Gari Melchers. The issue profiles French portrait painter Paul Bertault, newly established in New York, and Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy, a cosmopolitan artist whose clients include Gladstone and other London society figures. A substantial feature article profiles Emma Eames, the prima donna, and her husband Julian Story, painter and son of sculptor William Wetmore Story. The piece traces Eames's musical development from childhood in Shanghai and Boston through her operatic debut in Paris, where she achieved immediate success in Gounod's *Juliette*, and describes their artistic household on Paris's Place des États Unis, decorated with American furnishings and European treasures.