The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-03-31
TEE EXHIBITION.
The School Of Designs Public Enter
tainment on Friday.
New Features-Music and Painting
od-Carving-A Correspondent
on Art Development.

Friday evening at o'clock at the
Design will open its sixth annual exhibit
ton. 1t will be open also all day Saturday,
but not Saturday evening.
The exhibition will be under the direc-
ton of Instructor Jackson and his assist
ants, Misses Wadsworth and Prick,
Mr.. Collin, teacher of Woodworking, and
the Directory of the Museum Association
1t will be the first exhibition of any work
Of the two Woodworking classes, which
were started only two months ago.
The exhibition viii probably be the
best ever given by the school. Works in
oil will predominant, but black and white
water color and pastel will be well rep
resented.
The private examination made of the
exhibits now being put in place justifies
the conclusion that all that has been said
III commentator OF the school is iusti-
fed, and that there has not, indeed, been
given as warm praise as is deserved
There are in the great number of pictures
score which, if they were not known to
be the works of students in this home
art school, and were placed on sale in an
art store, would command from six to ten
times the prices the modesty of the pupils,
has permitted them to mark upon the
stretchers. A very large proportion OF
the works in color would grace any home
wall and command special attention.
while but very few are in the collection
that are not worthy the full value marked
upon them.
During Friday evening there will be
instrumental and vocal music. and all
who attend will find the affair to be a
u
" general invitation is extended, and the
hope is expressed that the school will be
encouraged by a very large number ofVisi-
tors. 1t is due to the school that our people
come out TO its exhibition generally. A
paucity of visitors will prove very dis
couraging, while the many will, by at
tendance, serve as stimulant to the
energy and persistence that labors to
build up this refining educational insti-
ton.
A correspondent who has taken deep
interest in the two principal art schools of
California, that here and that in San Fran.
cisco, writes urging the encouragement
of such institutions, and after commend
ing the Sacramento school very warmly,
adds these reflections
Beauty, as has been well said. as a
principle is becoming recognized not
only as joy but as power and a value
forever. The education OF The natural
taste for expression through designing is
the duty OF the parent TO the child when
ever such natural taste is manifested
and circumstances will permit of it's Guilt
walton. 1t gives power as well as pleasure,
and better hts one for any vocation; en-
larges the capacity for enjoying life, and
equlpS one with means that are called
into exercise in every trade, in all follow
ings and all professions"
He or she who reads and understan S
and thinks, is armed well; but those who
in addition by art study develop the
third form ofexpression have opened to
them an inner temple of knowledge and
come into closer understanding with
nature and all her divine beauty and
grandeur. The true apprehension OF form,
through training ofthe eye by observation
opens TO view, as some poet has said,
q new heaven and earth'"
THE schools of design all labor to en-