The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-10
THE ART ASSOCIATION.
The Officers Elected and Reports Made
at the Annual Meeting.
The Receipts and Expenditures of the Year
The Success of the Art Loan Exhibit
and the Association.

The annual meeting of the indianapolis Art
Association was held yesterday with a full at
tendance The reports of the secretary and
treasurer show the work of the year to have
been highly satisfactory. Officers were elected
as follows:
President-Rev. n. A. Hyde.
Vice-presidents-NIrs. A. G. Porter, Mrs. J. A
Moore Mrs. S. j. Fletcher.
Recording Secretary-May Wright Sewau
Corresponding Secretary-Mary Dean
Treasurer-Anna Dunlop.
THE sECRETARY's REPORT.
Following in the report of the secretary:
One year ago. upon the close of of lectures
,on etching and enS1 .ng, which had been given in
IS;- ~itv by Mrs of Milwaukee, few of the
-,l1 err classes, and whose enthusi-
1ai 5.onnewly kindled, met to consider
tei ~ yaniZing an art association. AT
Ta saS ney decided to make the venture,
80 oe rom their number committee of ten
-, afne constitution for the government of the
new society Ten meetings did this committee of ten
hold and the spring months were
nearly exhausted when public meeting was
called at the Deuison to hear and discuss the consi
tuition and to elect officers. This meeting large
and enthusiastic; the constitution was thoroughly
discussed and, with slight amendment adopted a
full corps of officers elected and two groups were
according special constitutional provisions immedi
ately organized viz: The literary students and the
Organization having been thus effected meetings
were discontinued until September when the directors
together to devise plans of work for the general
The first work undertaken by the directors was an
loan exhibit. Preparations for this, the manage
ment of it and the recovery from it consumed the
months of September October, November and the
first half of December. The value of this exhibit in
the cultivation of the public taste in interesting the
public mind in their work and in preparing the way
for larger undertakings of similar character the di
rectors have felt to be beyond compute That an in
FAINT society should come out OF an initiative enter
prise of this sort solvent seems to the directors mat
Ter for congratulation
The immediate influence of the art exhibit to
increase very considerabythe membership of the So
eety When, on Oct IL, 1888 the society was in
eoroorated under the name of the Art Association of
indianapolis it comprised ffty-eight members num-
Der which before Jan. l. 1884 had increased to us
The second work undertaken by the directors was
The opening of art school This school, beginning
Jan TO- closed its first term April 2. As it and
Is under the management of special committee, the
SsT%an report IF That it co w Ss left to fas
report it may be proper to state that the of
che school during the first term and the fact that the
school paid for itself and yielded surplus very small
bat still surpus) seemed to the directors to justify
Its continuance and the second term of the school
opened Thursday, April 3.
The work carried on by the directors thus far is
limited to the exhibit and the schools therefore, the
report OF the secretary may properly end here There
are however certain statements to be made
The management of the exhibit hay
ing been intrusted to large
committee and the school having been placed under
the control of committee also there has seemed to
ybe occasion for holding general meetings of the
assoeiaton and meetings of the board of directors
frequently as the bylaws provide Since September
there have been held but four association meetings
and four board meetings, although bylaw No. l. sec
ltOn l. and by law No. 2 section 2, to call for
twice that number of each 70 sum up
briefly, the association to its first
anniversary with the records of a sue
eessful art exhibit, with art school established
apparently firm foundations, with little stock of
school furniture and school appliances; with two
pictures beginning of its permanent gallery;
with treasury almost empty, but out of debit with
l104 members and with faith in its future. The
grounds for such faith will be further revealed in the
reports of the special committees and the groups
Very respectfully submitted.
MAY WRIGHT SEwALL Secretary.
THE TREAsURER'S REPORT.
Following is the report of Miss Anna Dunlop
she treasurer:
The undersigned treasurer of the Art Association
of indianapolis begs leave to submit the following
mual report There received from all sources dur
9ng the year. SO 800 16; during the time the ex.
penses amounted to So, 3S4.92 leaving balance on
hand of $574. The annexed statement of receipts
and expenditures will show, in detail the from
which the receipts obtained and the objects to
which the expenditures have been applied:
Receipts.
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