The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-03

tious. William Sartain acts as president.
and Bruce Crane as secretary. The Artists
Fund Society, Of which Thomas Hicks is
president, is nsiderably more useful. This
society has three funds, one for the widows
and orphans of members, one for the relief
Of disabled members, and fund for the re-
Lief Of artists, or the widows and orphans of
artists, not members. The society holds an
exhibition and sale each year, to which
members may contribute, and is regarded
as remarkably successful benevolent Or
ganization.
Nine years ago the Art Students League
was founded. It has rooms now at 50 West
Fourteenth street This league was estab-
hshed to maintain an academic school Of art
which should offer pupils thorough course
of instruction in drawing and painting, and
which should cultivate a spirit of fraternity
among art students The active members
must be artists and students who intend to
to make art profession, and applicants for
membership are required to work three
months in the Life Glass before they can be
elected. This is stringent rule, far more
stringent than the rule laid down for appli-
cants at the Academy of Design. Glasses
are opened on October 1, and closed on May
L The instructors are T. w. Dewing, Viii
liam Sartain, G. Y. Turner, Walter Shir-
law, William NJ Chase, George de Forest
Brush, j. s. Hartley and Frederick DieI-
man. During last season the number of
students entered at the league was 40. The
peculiar feature Of this school is that it is
entirely under the control of the students,
through the Board of Control elected by the
1flnTs- Of he Lon H. 4
therefore, that the students themselves APP.
point their teachers.
Peter Cooper needed no more splendid and
enduring monument than Cooper Union.
The pubIic--which is, naturally, absorbed in
its own affairs-has little comprehension of
the wide and impressive work which is ac-
eomplished each year within this great, free
institute. Besides its library, its schools of
science and mechanics, its reading rooms
and lectures, the Cooper Union maintains
several art schools. There are the Free Art
School for Women, the Afternoon or Amateur
School and the Free Night School Of Art The
first of these affords instruction In the arts
of design to women who, having natural
taste and capacity but are poor, intend to
apply the knowledge acquired in this insti-
tntion to their support The following
branches Of art are taught; Drawing from
objects, cast drawing, life drawing
from draped models, oil painting, re-
touching and coloring photographs, porce-
lain painting, China paintin gand wood en-
craving. Orders for wood engraving and
other work, to be executed by the students
and graduates, are taken at the school, and
the earnings go to the students who have
done the work. Woroen between 10 and So,
who are well recommended, can join the
classes Of the Free Art School Women alone,
also, are admitted to the Afternoon School
The Free Night School was established to give
practical instruction bearing on some useful
employment In which the arts of design and
drawing are the principal or accessory occu-
pations.
The Gotham Art Students are a working
organization Of practical men, designers,
photographers carvers, engravers and others,
and the aim of the society is to provide in
struction in drawing and painting for ar
tisans and those anxious to follow art as a
profession. The instructor is Walter
Shirlaw. The Kit-Kat club affords to pro-
fessional artists opportunity to study from
the living model and still-life. The Ladies'
Art Association attempts to promote the in
terests of women artists, to found a central
point of union and reference for its men,
bers, and to carry out many other excellent
objects Most of the instructors are
women. The Etching Club, which is only
seven years old, has held already some note
worthy exhibitions. The Turnverein,
which was at first a school for gymnastic
exercises, has now classes for drawing,
than 200 girls in the needIework classes.
The Society of American Artists is a radi-
cal offshoot of the Academy of De-
sign, and its methods are vigorously,
unlike those adopted at the AGA
DENY. It has held several brilliant ex-
hibitions in New York, and will hold one at
the Grosvenor gallery, London, this au>
tumn. The Salmagundi Sketch Club, like
the Society of American Artists, desires
originality above anything else. The Sal
magundi Club encourages originality by
inducing its members to submit their
sketches to mutual criticism. Every active
member of the Salmagundi is expected to
furnish a sketch ut each weekly meeting,
illustrating a subject previously selected by
a majority vote. The Society of American
EmbroiderieS is not yet fully organized, and
has only acting officers. The Society of
American Wood-Engravers has for its
object the advancement of art in wood
engraving. Only skilled wood-engravers
are admitted into this society.
All the officers of the Society of Decora-
tive Art are women. This important and
popular society was organized several years
ago for the reception, exhibition and sale of
artistic and decorative work. Its activity
consists in the maintenance of classes, of a
lending library and Of rooms for the taking
Of orders and the sale of articles sent by
ntributors-needle-w artists and de-
signers. Sales are also held at well-known
summer resorts. There are classes for ar
tistic embroidery, painting on china, under
glaze, Limoge, water-color, object drawing
in charcoal and pencil for young persons.
Both free and paying pupils belong to the
classes. The lending library is used as a
means of instructing distant workers, to
whom books, patterns, designs, etc, are sent
by mail. The articles offered for sale by
contributors during the year 1888 numbered
6,249, and of these 1906 were accepted.
Contributors whose articles are rejected
may, by special request, receive special
criticism and advice.
Nothing could be more delightfully."- infor-