The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-24

main IN Yew York. What is the
reason? What advantages can Paris offer
mat we cannot enjoy in New York?
Inc DAY has not yet come when we can
AFFORD to annihilate the time-worn legend
that there is no American art. We have
american artists who rank with the best
OF the foreign men, but we have looked too
long ana too steadily at the great light
SHINING from the European capitals not to
De little blinded by the glare. II there is no
olstlnctlvely local art it is because Ameri-
can lie lacks every conventional pictu-
rescue element. In every school in New
ORR, with one exception, the model in
the sketch class was a Turk, an Algerian
or Spaniard, posing in more or less
gorgeous trappings. AT the Art Students
League it was relief to find a woman
posed in a tender half-ight, gowned in
simple gray, with her hands folded in her
lap.
The unfortunate artist must live-the
picture-bCyer insists upon Italian cour-
tiers or Moorish bandits or immaculate
French or Dutch women in sabots and
fresh white caps. The same pre- iud1ce ex-
lists for the purchase of pictures of foreign
artists with foreign names.
How many good San Franciscans own a
William Chase? L know OF two. One,
the figure of a girl, once the property OF
Emil Carlson; the other, the head of
child, belongs to Rudolf Taussig, and was
shown at the exhibition of the portraits of
women. 1 know of no landscape. Mr..
Chase paints-and paints exquisitely-in
New York and the environS Who has not
seen in the exhibitions of Paris or Munich
the level lawns of Central Park, the
smooth paths, the charming lake. the
Children sailing their little boatsl He has
been for years the president of the Society
OF American Artists, and an acknowledged
authority at home and abroad-yet he was
sold out by the Sheriff not too long ago.
HOW many San FranciScans own q
Dewing, or Kenyon Cox, or George de
crest Brush, or have ever heard Of them7
Mr.. Brown and his street arabs stand for
the general public as the ideal American
art.
Paris has an indescribable attraction to
every art student-the gay, reckless, pic
turesque side of life has been done such
IN the novel and short story The Latin
Quarter! The left bank of the Seine! The
very names give little thrill.
10 quote young American girl who
had driven through this wonderful Latin
Quarter: why, there is nothing there to
sect Is Just like any other poor part of
Parisi"
Young men and women with money to
spend may ind in Paris the realization OF
every desire-it is at once the cheapest and
me most expensive town in the world.
For the majority, on microscopic allow
ance, It IS not all glitter and gold. To live
au clnquIeme or higher, to rise in a chill !
ana shlvering dawn, to light the fire or to
DO without one, to share a slatternly ser
want with four or five amiable brother or
sister artists; to cook the lean and hungry
mutton chop over smoking fire, to attack
In a strange tongue the sympathies and
antipathies of foreign country-all these
things suggest infinite possibilities of lone
illness and establishment.
1t will be my object to present dispas-
slonately the advantages OF schools in New
York, with as much practical information
a possible-to be followed later by similar
articles on the schools of London ana Paris.
In order to be accurate 1 shall quote freely
from the catalogues and circulars.
The most important school in New York
Is the Art Students League, which was
founded on the I'd of June, 1872, incor-
porated in 1878, and which has recently
settled in the charming building, 215 West
Flfty-seventh street, sharing it with the
Society OF American Artists.
1t was esta blished and is maintained by
art students of New York for the purpose
OF giving academic instruction in drawing,
painting, modelling and composition. 1t
Is an entirely self-supporting and CO.
operative institution. 1t is managed by
board of control, consisting OF twelve
members OF the league, elected annually,
who receive no remuneration for their
services. A majority of the me I'm bers of
the board are actually at work in the
classes.
Artists and students intending to m axe
art a profession and who have worked IN
the life classes three months may be
elected mem bers of the league If recon-
mended as eligible by the board of control.
At the end of the school year the award of
the Henderson scholarship of $3.50 and a
years tuition will be made to the student
having done the best work of the season.
a prize of $50 is awarded to the student
OF the modelling classes who models the
best figure. There is a formidable list of
instructors: George r. Barse Jr., J. Car
roll Beckwith, George de Forest Brush,
Clifford Carleton, William NJ. Chase,
Kenyon Cox, Mary T. Lawrence, H Sid
dons Mowbray, Robert Reid, Augustus
ST. Gaudens, J. H. Twachtman, Dougla
VoIk, J. Alden Weir, Irving r. Wiles.
The drawing classes consist of morning,
afternoon and evening classes in the pre-
paratory antique, the antique and life.
The hours are from A. NJ. to II NJ, from
12:30P. NJ. to 80 P. NJ. and from to 10 P. NJ.
The morning and afternoon classes are
(by the monthly IS, from January to June
$50, from October to June $50.
The modelling classes consist of morning
and evening classes, modelling in clay
from cast and life. The hours are from
80 A. u. to 1890 p NJ and from to 10
P. NJ. Additional classes afternoon and
evening are added as may be required.
A reduction of % per cent is made to
students working in TWO of the above
classes.
The painting classes consist of morning
and afternoon classes, painting from the
head, the draped model or still life. The
hours are from $3.50 to II and from to A.
The painting classes are (by the month)
$12. from January to June $50, from Octo-
Der to June $40.
The sketch classes are 81 month or 81
for students working in any other class.
The requirements for admission are al
ways the same in all the schools.
For the life class the student must sub
NIT drawing of a full-length nude figure
from cast or life.
For the painting classes drawings from
cast or life.
For the antique drawing from the cast
For the modelling classes examples of
drawing or modelling.
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