, 1875-10-03
AMERICAN MUSEUMS AND COLLEc-
IlCNS

IL about to publish, with the Report Of the Com
missioner Of Education. tables OF statistics OF
Public Museums Of Art for 1874, proof-aheets Of
which have aIready appeared. These statistics,
compiled by Col. J. Wilson Clarke, not only make
an interesting exhibit Of the art-materisl thus
far collected in this country, but furnish very
useful, practical guide to persons wise enough
to avail themselves Of the advantages near Ut
hand fox the study Of art before seeking the
wider foreign fields.
One set OF tables is devoted to museum Of
art, and another to institutions afforng art in
atruction, It appears that there are 27 museums
IN tho country sparse supply for SO States.
Only four States have more than one,-New
York. Z; massachusetts,, 6; and Pennsylvania
and Connecticut 2 apiece. The only Western
museums Of ert are the Western Re-
serve and Northern Ohio Historical Society md
Museum" ut Cleveland; 0. Notre Dame Mu-
scum ut South Bend, Ind., and the Art-Galle1y
Of the Illinois industrial University at Urbana,
Ill The Southern States boast only the coltec-
tons Of the Louisiana State University at Baton
Rouge.
Besides the information about the locations,
endoWmeDts officers, and business arrange
ments Of these Institutions, statistics mora use-
fut to the art student are given Of the amount
and Kind Of material collected in them. Under
bronze statues, relieves, and bnsts, antique and
modern, and the number Of plaster copies and
works IN terra Gotta, are given; under Paintings
aud engravinRa, the numteT Of old masters lot
which there are more than an il-informed but
supercitious public knows off, Of copies Of the
same, Of modern paintings etchings, engrav-
tnga, photographs, drawings, etc., under other
heads are coins, gems. ceramics, Chinese,
Egyptian, and Indian relics AS superiority in
one OF the other Of these departments
museums comes forward and claims honors-
The Corcoran Art Gallery at Washington, With
III endowment OF 81, 100000, is four-fold the
richest in money, the Metropolitan Museum OF
New York comes next claiming s245' 174 and
the three next, the Yale School OF Fine Arts at
New Haven, S88, 600: the National Academy OF
Design Of New York, $50, 900 aud the Ars-Gal-
Iery Of Vassar College, also S50,0o0
In sculpture the Pennsylvania Academy Of
Fine Arts. free art school in Philadelphia, and
Cornell University, are far in advance Of all
others, the former having 256, the latter $50
casts from the antique the Metropolitan Afu-
scum has 60, the Corcorau Gallery So (increaa-
ing, however. with immense rapidity), and Am
is true, boasts 1000 original antique statues
but these are the Di Ceanola collection OF
Cyp1ian antiquities, interesting historically, but
not models OF art. In brouzes tue Corcoran
Gallery ,s ahead, with ia e. large proportion no
doubt being the animals Of Barge), and the Bos-
ton Mnsem Of Fine Arts next, 1l2 When it comes
to Relieves, our own industrial University ut
Urbapa comes to the front with ITO specimens.
against 12S Of the Corcoran Gallery. and in other
antique sculpture UTbana also makes very good
showing, with SO COPIES from the antique, count
ing both statues and busts. |
OF old masters in painting, the Yale School Of |
the Fine Arts has 225 examples (the Jarvea col |
lection), the Metropolitan Museum 23o largely !
Dutch), and the New YORK Historical Society 2l9.
The Spanish collection Of tho Duke de Montpen- !
in ft6a mn