The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-03
ART sTUDYIN NEW YORK
Opportunities and Advantages in the
Centre of American Art Culture.
Galleries, Systems of Education and
Teachers -OH Painting, water
colorlng, Designing, Engrav-
Ing and EmbrOIderfng.
Especial Correspondence

try. Every town has its school, and the
principal cities, from the east TO the west,
are supplied Sith excellent galleries, sys
TENS of education and teachers. But New
York is the centre Of American art culture.
Young men and girls, gifted and ambitious,
come here from all parts of the land Here
they learn, with great rapidity, What sort of
work they are best fitted to do-whether oil
painting, water coIoring, designing, engrav-
ing, embroidering There are dozens of
private and public schools in New York.
There are hundreds of competent professors
There is one great and celebrated free school
There are magnificent galleries, and, If one
chooses, tits small task to visit from this
point the remarkable collections in Boston,
Philadelphia and Baltimore The energy
and patience shown by many of the students,
and not least by the women, prove that they
do not take up their labor in perfunetory,
amateur way. Many amateurs are, without
doubt, produced by the new and popular
method of teaching and by the popularity
Of art itself. Yet, in the main, the result is
encouraging and elevating.
Our most important schools and organiza-
tons In the interest of art are the American
Art Union, the American Water Color So
ciety, the Metropolitan Museum, and the
National Academy of Design, the Art Club,
the Artists Fund Society, the Art Students
League, the Cooper Union, Gotham Art
Students, the Kit-Kat Club, Ladies' Art
Association, the Etching Club the TURNER
Elm. the Society OF American Artists, the
Ealmagundt Sketch Club, the Socisty of
American Embroiderers, the Society of
American Wood Engravers the Society of
Decorative Art, the Tile Club, and the Tech.
meal Art School of the Metropolitan
Museum.
Tife American Art Union is a new organ,
ization, since is was Incorporated only about
year ago. -Four distinguished artists are
at tia head Of it--DanieI Huntington. 7. w.
Wood, E. Wood Perry and Frederick Diel-
man. The chief object Of the Art Union 10
The establishment Of galleries for the exhi-
hition and sale of works OF art, the holding
OF art exhibitions in different parts of the
country, the publication Of engravings and
other artistic productions, the publication
OF an art Journal, the acting as agent for
others IN the purchase OF works of art, the
establishment of benevolent fund for artists,
and the promotion OF social intercourse be-
tween members of the Union. There are
now at least $50 regular members In the
Union. and about SO honorary members.
The crgaR Of tn Union, called The Art
Union, and edited by Charles NJ Kurtz, was
Published last January. It Is useful and
trustworthy magazine, and q carefully illus.
Eratea with etchings ard phetotypes. The
zneIns OF this soeiety are at A East 18th
Street, where exhibitions are offered fire.
qusntIy; exhibitions have also been given il,
BuHaIo ard Ienisville
The office Of the American Water Color
Eocisty is at 81 West Tenth street. and the
society Is sixteen years old. It Is directed
~ g ~. Wood, Henry Farrer and James
SYmington. Artists who live In New York,
o. aaar the city, are pernitted to become
Tnenabers and the only charge to which they
are subjected Is sos. There are also non-resi.
dent members, amateurs and connoisseurs.
The amateurs and cornoisseurs do not vote,
and pay no fees. The Water Color Society
hsld its seventeenth annual exhibition this
ysar, very noteworthy and interesting ex-
hfbiden. The Water Color is a popular or
ganization, and 1t is also a particularly
useful one The great value OF water color
ing Is shorougEly appreciated to-day, and
many young students apply themselves to
- With enthusiasm.
Jehn Baylor Johnston Is the president of
he Metropolitan Museum Of Art, and the
yice-presidsntE are William G. Prime and
Daniel Huntington. Mr.. L. P. Cli Cesnoia,
whose lawsuit Tgith CASTOR Feuardent,
Apropos OF the celebrated Oyprian collection,
has made aim somewhat notorious, 3 direc-
cor of the nuseuEn. This establishment was
Organized TO maintain museum and library
efart. 10 encourage and deveI p the study
OK the Enc arts and the application of art
e manufactures and practical life. The
museum Is dependent for support on the
annual membership fees, the receipts at the
door on pay days, the appropriations by the
city Of New York, and on gifts of money.
The institution has purchased already fine
collection of paintings by old Dutch
and Flemish artists, and other paintings
by italian, German and French artists; the
Cssnola collection Of Cypriote antiquities,
Kensington reproductions, the MacCullum
collection Of Iaces and other valuable col
Iections of antique glass, antique engraved
gems, Oriental porcelain and Babylonian
cylinders. The museum has also received
as gifts collections of Central American
pottery, Greek vases, Japanese coins, old
Venetian glass, Russian art objects, draw
fngs by old masters, Peruvian pottery, casts
Of ivories, ancient coins, architectural casts
and American paintings The library,
though small, has an endowment fund Of
$1,000
Our most popular and substantial school is
the Academy of Design, whose exhibitions
are the most important of their kind that
are given each year in this country. Daniel
Huntingdon who, it viii be perceived, is
connected with many art institutions, is
president Of the Academy. The members
include academicians, associates, fellows for
life, and fellows in rpetuity. There are
ninety-six academicians at present, the num-
Der being limited to 100. There are three
women among the eighty-two associates.
The schools of the Academy consist of an
Antique school and Life school 1t is the
aim of the academy to teach the principles
and practice of art by means of antique sculp-
tura, and the living model, nude and draped.
The schools are open from the first Monday
IL Octub + until the middle of May, daily.
Saturdays and Sundays excepted. All su
,l..nts nlnst enter first the AntiQu, 5, hoo
StiHlei.ts OF 10th sexes are taught 70 ether.
except in the Life classes. The duration Of
the course of study depends entirely upon
the capacity and progress of the student.