The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-25
EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS.
Nearly Twenty five Thousand SPec-
linens i'm Our Public schools.

i linens i'm Our Public schools.
Cards were circulated yesterday by Mr..
Arthur Forbriger, Superintendent Of Draw
ing in the Public Schools of this city, in
viting the parents and friends of the pupils
to visit and examine the comprehensive
exhibition of drawings at the office OF the
! Superintendent of Schools, third floor of
the Library Building The exhibition be
gins tonight, and each evening between the
hours of and 10 o'clock for three weeks
the committee will be in readiness to show
visitors through the room and to answer all
necessary questions. At the close of the
exhibition one-tenth of the drawings, which
have already been selected and are dis
played separately, will be sent to the Expo
sition at Paris.
There are nearly twenty-five thousand
drawings to be seen, which comprises one
specimen of the work of each scholar above
the first year in school. These specimens
are arranged in systematic order, so that by
| ascertaining the number of the district or
school where the pupil is in attendance, the
grade to which he or she belongs, and the
name of the teacher of the class the work
of the pupil may easily be found and COM
pared with the work of the remainder OF
the class; or to take general survey of the
work Of the department, one may begin
with the first attempts of the child OF SIX
years to draw straight line between two
points, and follow the gradual Improvement
through the different grades until he ar
rives at the finely executed work in orig
inal designing and water colors, performed
by the scholars of the High and Normal
Schools.
The system taught and the manner of
teaching TO one at all conversant with the
art may also easily be seen. During the
first years the scholar is of course engaged
upon the first principles, drawing lines and
| simple forms. The neatness and perfection
with which many of them are executed
does credit to both the teacher and the
scholar When the pupil arrives at the age
of ten or eleven years, such organic forms
as part of the human face, parts of animals,
leaves, flowers and fruits are often drawn
with a marked degree of skill.
AS the scholar advances still further, the
conventional elements derived from plant
forms are applied in decorative design, and
the study of plant forms is made a special
! ty. During the remainder of the course the
study Of organic forms, the study of geomet-
rical solids from the fiat copy and designing
for decorative purposes, occupies one hour
of the scholars time each week.
| In the Normal Department drawings to
illustrate object lessons, and in the Night
School Department drawings of machinery,
are prominent features.
A manifest improvement has been made
in this department during the past year. 1t
has become more prominent feature of the
schools, more time is devoted to it. more
and better instruction is given, and there
are greater inducements for doing good
work.
By this exhibition Superintendent For
briger expects to show to the Board of Edu-
cation, to the parents, and to the public in
general, what is really being done in that
line, and he is in hopes that the Importance
of the department will be seen and greater
appropriation made for this purpose in the
future. At present the special tuition in
drawing is $5 9A AZ, less than the S3d part
of all the tuition, and only 20 cents per pu-
pill during the whole year.
The grades which have done the best
work during the year, and from whose
drawings the larger part Of those to be sent
to the Paris Exposition have been selected,
are as follows:
| Grade A, Storrs Township, 21st District,
Mrs Cyler, teacher, H. Ii. Fisk, assistant;
Grade B, Eastern avenue, 17th District, Miss
mellow, teacher, Miss Griffith, assistant;
Grade G, Walnut Hills, 22d District, Miss
Stubs, teacher, Miss Sullivan, assistant;
Grade D, Corryville, 23d District, Miss
Doemes, teacher; Grade e, Findlay street
18th District, Miss Schmile teacher; Grades
f and e, Riddle street, 14th District Mis-:
| Habhert. teacher.