The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-21
Tho Gathering Art Students.

The art students are coming TO town.
They come from all parts OF tho country,
and they bring with them greatly varying
ideas Of what they arc TO do and how they
are going to DO it..
New York has a rapidly increasing num-
Der OF centerS for srt study, but the increase
of smaller schools has of tate modified IN
no aprteeiabie way the position Of the four
| ohiof hsIds FOR study-Cooper Union, the
| schools associated with the Metropolitan
Museum, the schools OF the Academy OF
Dasign and tina Art Students' league.
These artistic hives will soon be buzzing
again. Already the applicants are on the
sround or are filing their applications by
mail. The Academy school, having behind
II the teaching of "A venerable institution. IL
naturally most conservative III us method
of receiving pupils. In your application for
admission to the Academy school, an appli-
cation which must be accompanied by an
example of your drawing, o are obliged
to explicitly state your age. place OF birth.
the name OF your teacher, il you have had
any, the name of the person to whom you
refer for u certificate of personal character.
and whether yen intend to practice art rs a
profession. Thsrs il another question as
to whether the drawing submitted is exa-
cuted by yourself, which might seem super
fioaa 10 any one who did not know of the
queer things would-bs ars Students are
sometimes willing TO do in order to squeeze
their way into u class.
envy will be- Taught this season by Will ID.
Low, N. A., Edgar NJ. Ward, N. A., and
Charles Foster; TOM Eakins will talk
about anatomy; Frederick Dielman will
teach perspective, and the composition and
sketch classes will be under the wing of
Nj. Low.
at the League, the most popular and in
OF metropolitan art schools, every
thing has y thoroughly business-like air.
but there ia less conservatism than At the
Academy. The list of instructors is y
strong one. j.. II. Twachtman puts the
young men and women through their
degree. Among the classic casts ap-
pear j. Carroll observation-disclosures a
Pct Observation-Disclosures Cox, that consum-
mate master of the nude. and Willard l..
Mstcalf, who halls from the studios of Bou
and Lefebvre. In the life classes
tina Instructors include beside Mr.. Cox and
Mr.. Metcalt, II. siddons Mowbray, a young
sculpture, Augustus Saint-Gaudens. pre-
sides over tho modelling classes; while the
classes ara IN charge of three
strong men-William M. Chase. B. II. Fitz
j. Alden Weir. There are both sketch and
classes at the league Oh three days
OF the week.
New York reaps lone of the anomalies
of art student life in Paris. Its olassrooms
are quiet and moral to an almost prudish
Great care ID exercised, even in the
selection of modsls-a precaution of which
tho Partisan schools nave never been ac-
cused. Some of the students have a hard
Tins of it to make ends meet. In this respect
life is not so much different from
life at Munich or the. French capt.
tai. A few of the students. as might be i'm
piled by one of the academy's questions,
come to play with art. This is especially
brus of the women. who SO often only in
tend to go home and paint tides. The great
mass are serious; and it is a pretty hard
from the beginning.