Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-17
SCHOOL OF DESIGN.
Exhibition Last Night-To Remain ope
a week-Pieasing Exercises.

visiting the main hail. At half-past the
lecture-room was filled to its full seating
capacity some 300 invited guests and
friends of the pupils being present. The
school sat on either side of the
stage The rostrum was occupied by
Vice-P President Ray, of the California
Museum Association which conducts the
school; Mayor Brown, President OF the
Board of Joint Control; judges OF the
evening H. w. A. Nahl artist, OF San
Francisco, Charles McCreary, OF Sacra-
mento, and Miss Amanda Austin, Sacra-
mento graduate of the San Francisco
School of Design, and the instructors of
the Sacramento school, w. F. Jackson, Sac
ramento, and c. J. Carlson, of San Fran
cisco. In front of the stage were ethe Di-
rectors and the Committee of Management
for the OCCASION At one side of the stage
was very handsome floral design-easel,
palette and fan-the offering of Miss Cosby.
Vice President Ray called to order and
made the Introductory address. he re-
ferred fittingIy to the gift of the gallery by
Mrs. Crocker to the city, to the organiza-
ton of the California Museum Association,
to its trusteeship of the property, to its
work and fair success thus far in col
lecting a museum of natural history
and curiosity, and to the founda-
ton of the School of Design.
He referred to the work of the year past as
now yielding its harvest soon to be opened
to the inspection Of the people. In that
connection he happily referred to the Citrus
Fair, and what it typifed in the direction
of developing the possibilities of this sec
ton of the State. Anothernew thing was the
school. in whose honor the audience had
met He trusted it would lead the people to
reflect upon our possibilities in the direction
| of art culture. There is much home talent
that should not be neglected. The gift of
the gallery and the presentation of a SPLEEN
did set of casts by business men had made
the school possible. Its success had sur
passed even the most sanguine expecta-
| tons of the Directors. The attendance had
| been large and the percentage of season at
tendance very large, and the interest mani
tested had been kept alive to the close of
the year. Following, and with the need of
| homes, is the desire for the beautiful,
which makes us dissatisfied with the mere
! four walls of habitation or
patch of ground. Hence, ar
| tistic tastes develop and latent talent
is aroused. With this comes the desire to
inquire into scientific matters and awak-
ened interest in literature. To aid to the
qualification of al these desires was the
purpose of the Museum Association as
well as to build up repository for exam
| piles of California products, minerals, ma
tural curiosities and examples of the wealth
and capacity of the soil The Association
had done much. The Directory had met
many obstacles, possibly made errors, but
it had labored to its best ability, and be-
lieved its course would be justified by its
history.
MAYOR BROWNS ADDRESS.
After other remarks in a similar tone of
thought, he introduced Mayor Brown, who
said
Ladies and Gentlemen, members of the ART School,
and Directors Of the association =: know not with
what feelings you view your surroundings to-
night, nor what your ambitions and future de-
sires concerning art may be, but TO the citizens
of this city assembled here to view the result of
years study and labor, there must come emo
| lions of pleasure and interest gratifying apart
| from the mere polite curiosity. For surely this
infant art center in your midst must now be
! dear to you all as nursing, ana your pleasure
must be great to know that it has SO sue
| cessfully passed the first year of its eX-
istence. The Directors and members
of the association may be pardoned the
conscious pride and deep feelings of salts
| faction that they have for their work. For
welded to their fascinating mistress art, they
| Fave ever been attentive to her wants and
caprices, and have found their diligence
crowned with a merited success. Could the
| lady to whose unselfshness, to whose beneyo-
| lence OF leart, our CITY owes SO 1nucl, ana
whose many virtues has so endeared her to us
all, look upon this scene tonight, know that
she would be pleased and gratiiied and in
manner repaid to see that her bestowed trust
has been so well guarded and wreathed with
such success.
1t should be matter of congratulation for our
people to dwell upon, that here in our busy,
active city, apart from all turmoil, the seeds OF
broader cultivation, a deeper and more pro-
found culture are being sown, to grow and
thrive, producing harvest the reaping of
which Will leave its impress not alone on the
workers. but upon the people among whom
they work and upon generations yet TO come.
History, with generous hand, has left open its
pages that the student may learn how the cult
walton of the arts, the sciences and the classics
left its indellible impression upon the ancient
epochs and medieval history only points more
enphatically the finger OF progress in art and
culture.
England, before the Elizabethan period, was
different England from to-day. That golden
age of literature and art stamped an eradicate
impression upon the people, their institutions
and their customs as lasting time, as brilliant
as crystal drop .coqueting with a ray of sun
shine.
Who can tell of the influence such small
beginning as this may in time exert? Who can
vouchsafe an answer as to where it may not
| reach and leave its mark?
If it be true that artistic culture is but the
suit of the surroundings in which we find our
selves: that our tastes our refinement, is but the
| outgrowth of our environments; that before
| master can be produced the people must arise to
higher plane and a finer degree in develop
| ment-if such is the caSe-which l doubt not
we have nothing TO fear from locality, from sur
| roundings. Are we not in the center of a smil-
| ing valley, Astounding in landscapes that
must delight the eye, make glad
the senses? The tilling of the soil, the
cultivation of the vine the budding fruits, va
| ried as they are abundant all point TO refine
ment, to a culture. that needs only higher de-
gree of development TO give us q genius,
| master, as the art growth of his environment.
| May we not produce that master that genius?
| Nov ia AT n
| toiler here, devoted to his easel2 May not the
| sculptured figure in days to come awaken at
tention and spread halo of Immortality
around the head of some obscure but diligent
worker now busy within these halls at their
daily task? l say may not, and ask why not?
Does not everything, every name, every great
struggle battling with prejudice against a
world, finally to succeed? Fame is a
noble object for which to work, only the ambi-
| lions all stirred to its attainment, and in the
higher walks of life only the diligent, the per-
| severing, succeed. Genius is born not made is
| the common verdict. Talent is inherited, it is
| a gift, cries the world as excuse for its non
possession; but, my friends, genius and talent is
| only another name for work, for per -everance,
| for energy and its fruit and reward is success.
| Tr1e there must be some aptitude something
| Unborn to work upon before the truly great are
produced: but without the diligence, without
! the laborious struggles, genius and talent are
| like the precious gold in the hidden ore-forever
obscure unless mined and worked with care
and labor.
| The Association has made fine beginning
A most successful year has passed away. Their
task has been hard but successful, and but a
| few years may and should place our city in the
front rank as art center, as she is the center
| for traffic for commerce and for State purposes.
AWARDS.
Mr.. Brown then read the report of the
Judges:
To The California Museum association Your
Board of Judges beg leave to warmly commend
| the Sacramento School of Design. They believe
| the people of Sacramento have every reason to
| be proud of the school and the work it has ac-
complished. They beg leave to congratulate the
| California Museum Association membership
upon their work, their public spirit,
| and their success with the school,
| The evening class has produced some
| of the best drawings. They deserved to compete
| for a gold medal. the committee hopes that
| the evening class viii be more successful in
| numbers hereafter. 1t is great opportunity for
Young and old to acquire skill useful to them in
| all yocations of life. BY means of this evening
| class. they who labor bv day are enabled to en-
| brace opportunities afforded not even in San
| Francisco. Respectfully,
AMANDA AUSTIN
II. W. A. NAIL,
CHAs. McCRRARY,
Board of Judges.
Mr.. Brown said the Board of Judges
desired him to say they had no knowledge
| of the personality of the pupils. They took
the work as they found it, and acted unin-
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