New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-10
NATIONAL ACADEMY or DESIGN

TIE last futures Of the Academy were removed by
the owners On Saturday, June 80. Tue exhibition
cloaed some tine before but the Council having the
arrangement, in charge kept the pictures together for
the purpose Of Swing the Japanese Enbassadors an
opportunity Of viewing representative collection OF
American aft-a matter which the Reception Commit
tee of tho Common Council did not, however, thnk
worth the trouble Of mentioning to them. Owing to
the frearept rains which occurred durng the time OF
the exhibition, the yfs did not come up to those OF
last year. The att4 ndance nevertheless sufficiently
large 70 ircat that the general cterest Of the public
In the Academy exhibitions is not by any means on the
decrease.
The extensive and valuable property owned by the
Academy Of Design, at No. Col Broadway, known
formerly as the Acsd, ny Buildings basnow as Mozart
Hall, ard ,mbrsc pg g. by 100 feet inexent was sold,
On The Is, Of May a to the owners of the Suyvesant
Initute II is the intention 10 erect new and exten-
rive building MP town appropriate for the uses OF the
Academy. The cid ACADEMY Builiings, it will be re-
Int inferred, wee sold many years ago, but after much
alteration by the purchasers reverted TO the Academy
in tate ~ utterly upsdapled 10 their purposes as to
re useess Since that rime the National Academy
1aye rented out there budi e. and held their exhi l.
tons Ia T. nth street and their Scaoolof Design, which
il now COL Quoted by Pref. Thos s. Cumuings Profes-
scr If Arts and Literature Of Design of the New
York University, formerly Vice-Preeiden', and now
Treasurer of the National Academy has been carried
on in TIE studio of that gentleman, at Nc. s. East
Thirteenth street.
The new buildings will be on toerabl! large SCALE
they are TO be situated sufficiently up town to meet the
wants Of tie public. The principal artists and aechi-
Of the country have bud the plan and features OF
the propose new Academy Buildings under consider
alton for some time but thy have not yet fully con-
cuded their labors. We venture tosay however that,
when finished, the Academy Buildings will furnish one
Of the pleassntest and most striking among our city
institutions. Operations for the erection of the new
Acacemy will be commenced without any unnecessary
delay.
TIE Free School Of Design supported by the
Acsoemy dubdl.d down after the sale of the old
Academy buildings, owing 10 the temporary arrange
ment necessarily made for it, conrvance, and the con
sequeut n. gcc, which it suffered from the Academy.
Prof Cummings exerted himself individually in ts be-
halfior two season., and tie school under his care
Lac been rendered very successful Last season it was
kept open as usual for five months from October to
February TIE attendance of art students, both
professional amateur, larger than 1t ever had
been before az tire figures win sbow There were 5lS
in the Antique ard 40s in the Life School, which was
very considerable increase the preceding season,
The excellent opportunities afforded for the study Of
ar in this scho'l deserved to have been appreciated
before. The collection Of stationery for the Antiqne
School Is conceded TO be the finest 10 the country.
embraces l79 figures carefully collected at great ex
rense and including the principal ancient and modern
master pieces.
TIE Life School, draped and nude, furnishes gra
utors opportunities to the student that could not b
otherwise nbtared, except at a very exorbitaot ex
penss The School 10 supported by the rece s Of thu
epnual exhibitions Of the Academy.
Most Of the prominent ar'irts Of the Na'ion'
Academy arc now away, having departed on mi
Summer sketchng tours. Messrs. Durand and X 'ssi
ter are up the Hudson. Mr. Ipgham is at Washington
High to spend the Summer. Mr. Hays has gone t.
the Rocky Mountains, and many others have gone t
the seasbore and to the mountains Of the Eastern
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