Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-25
THE MUSEUM AND SAN FRANCISCO

The San Francisco Chronicle ill-conceaI.
deep chagrin over the gift of Mrs. E. B
Croker to the California Museum Associa-
ton, of Sacramento. 1t complains that
this Is not the place for such a fine eollec-
ton of paintings; that concentration C.
art works at the metropolis is the true
policy % pursue. 1t will occur to the
thoughtful reader that the distribution
o. galleries of art throughout the
country will tend far more to the culture
of the people than concentration in a city
on border Of the State. The citizen who
so disposes her gifts as to place within
their beneficial influence all the people of
the city in which she has her home, as
well as the people of the interior of the
State, does the largest measure of good.
Art tastes are as elevated and exacting in
Sacramento and vicinity as in San Fran
cisco. This is the Capital of the State of
California, and the Croker Art Gallery is
in keeping with the dignity and Importance
of the city, and the tastes and culture of
Its people. San Francisco has no need of
the collection. She is capable, if a tenth
OF her boasts are sincere of erecting an art
gallery and filling ii, without begging
lady OF the interior to come to the rescue
1t may occur to the Chronicle that itsvery
singular appeal, made some little time ago
for the removal of the Crocker Art Gallery
10 San Francisco, was not in good taste, nor
was IT Of a character to incline the owner
TO aequiesce. Sacramento did not ask for
the Gallery; there was no importantly on
her part; the gift came to her wholly I'M
solicited, and it may be said is
all the more precious because it rep
resents the unselfsh and unsolicited
act of noble woman, whose Judgment
as to the disposition of her beneiactions is
freely exercised and not influenced bv sug
gestions on the part of any one. 1t NAV
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beggars that 4 gift asked for is no Gift. and
affords no pleasure to either recipient or
donor. Possibly, despite its disposition to
threaten and advise with the air of die
tator, the Chronicle may some day awaken
TO realization Of the inpolicy, 10 put j.,
no stronger, of attempting to.-.snaun
people to do its beLanmg1
collection was 4
and Journal tIfy949 a.
nent of public opinion had not the grace
to refrain from specializing upon the re-
ceipt of the article before II was assured /!
that it would receive it, Mrs. Crocker's |
disposition of her paintings suits herself, |
and it is the business of no one else. Sac |
ramento, where all the generous traits of
the lady are topics of daily praise, has
never solicited her in the matter. one way
or the other, and as a result the lady has
very properly remembered this people.
There is a broad need in the interior for
Just such an institution as the Museum As
ISOLATION is building up. 1t has here far
wider field for active usefulness than II
located in San Francisco, and the good il
can do the whole State may be reasonably
expected to excede that of any previous
effort. No one viii be better pleased than
sacramentans to have San.Francisco secure t
a similar institution, but the metropolis !
siiouia muster up the energy necessary to y