Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-27
ESTERN ART.
An Appeal in it's Behalf Made by the
Art Association.

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The following address to the people has
just been issued by the subjoincd com mittcc,
appointed for that purpose;
The Western Art Association, to the Pub
lie! YOU doubtless have read of, il not seen
the excellent art collection AT the Limnger
gallery, recently opened to the public of
Omaha. The organization of I'M art ~associa-
tion in this city comprising go members for
the purpose of developing u taste for art IL
one of the dir cCt results OF this step. 1t il
proposed by this organization that an art
school DC established in this city, with u
faculty of such wide rCputc rs to mako
Omaha an art center for a wide section OF
the west. TO do this it is necessary to
secure a greater range of support thnn the
association can render Just for the present, and
cor this reason a committee of ladies' has been
appointed to call upon those whose taste and
ability WE have reason to believe will prompt
them to lCud Il helping hand to this Important
movement. The committee in charge desires
1t distinctly understood that their aim is not
To benefit II class or IA limited number OF resi-
dents, but a sincere attempt to impress upon
the community at large the moral, CONNER
Cial anu rs well the intellectual value of an
art education laid so broad and deep that
when in tull operation every child growing
up in Omaha will speedily feel its bencticient
influence, and also toe a steady and growing
factor IN the increasing culture and refine
mcnt of the adult population. We are called
the Gate City - let it be written over tho
entrance TO our beautiful Omaha that here
the stranger comes into IA realm of material
wealth and prosperity converted III part at
least into those finer elements OF life,
that are Indispensable to Il digniiicd and nobler
existence. Its immediate practical value is,
however, what we desire to impress upon
the community at this moment. II we wish to
understand this promptly, let us simply look at
France; fully one-hulf of its IN or
~iginates in its art products ramifyiug itself
INTO every industry. What we want, then, is:
l.. The thorough moral backing and active
cooperation of every of the COM
munity.
.. subscriptions enough to definitely insure
the presence here, for the time being, of two
distinguished instructors and artists, ready
to come here and establish an art school
Mr.. Linlngcr assures the association not
only of the nigh standing and capacity of the
gentlemen expected to come here and organ
l2e the school, but in addition they bring
here a bona tidc capital in parapharnelia and
cash of y ,OOO. On the score then of q sim
pie business proposition Omaha has $50, 600
TO gam or lose, and If secured, the investment
will be emphatically in behalf of the COM
munity rather than for any individual pene-
fit The ladies VINO comprise the committee
selected to wait upon the leading men of the
city in behalf of this deserving enterprise
will furnish further details. Their imme-
date ann Will be 10 secure a
subscription of fifty guaranteed scholarships
at 800 each. Certainly the community at
large can afford this investment under such
extraordinary and favorable auspices, and it
is to be hoped that ali those who have for
merly been so prompt to aid all efforts in be-
half OF the good of the city in. the past will
hasten to enroll their names in Il movement
which has in it so much of all that Will per-
petuate the best Of all the endeavors and ex-
of the present, as well as the no.
blest aspirations of the future:
The document is signed by Mrs. C. J.. Gil
bert, Mrs. j. ID. Dadisinun, Mrs. Edwin Da-
Wis, Miss Kate L. Pettls, committee on sub
scriptlOn.
&. ID. Kent, Andrew Rosewatcr, Mss
Kate E. Ball, Mr.. 0. Ellison, committee on
cirrulurrs-