The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-17
JERSEY CIGY'S Art
Circulating Galleries to Be
Selit From Whittier
House.
MISS coRNELiA POST IN CHARGE
What the object is-Who Are
Interested
Notes.
MISS CoRNELiA POST IN CHARGE

Every day seems to bring forth some
Lnew occupation for charitably inclined
people. We have our Social Settlements,
Peoples Palaces. missions. and now, Of
latter date. our travelling libraries and
art galleries. Last SUMNER Miss Cor
lnelia Post, Of Summit avenue, When
away in the country. read a magazine
article describing an experimental art gall
1ery then in operation in Hull House. a
social settlement in Chicago. Miss Post
liked the idea. and as she is a warm sup
porter of Whittier House. she decided to
suggest to Miss Bradford that the House
be made the centre of a circulating art
gallery. The plan met with Miss Brad
ford's APPROVAL. and Miss Post, with Mrs.
! Henry Harrison and Miss Elizabeth
Hunt. two artists interested in Whittier
House. formed a committee to formulate
and complete the plans for the gallery.
This they w done. and propose In a very
short time to begin circulating the pic
/ lures
The plan of operation is a simple one.
The hardest part of the undertaking has
been to secure the desired pictures. Nus.
Harrison announced the plan to the Wom-
ans Club early in the year. and asked
the ladies TO send wood-euts or photo
l. 4 Fee Va tstC
buildings Many were sent, but the
enthusiastic committee found many more.
The line was drawn at colored pictures,
and the black and white pictures, whether
expressive or not, clear and good. which
have some educational and identifying
/ value. Any picture which can possibly
have bad influence is Immediately reject
/ ed.
When the pictures are received they are
Immediately mounted upon heavy dark
cardboard. If the picture has a name
it is clearly written below 1t. On the
back of the cardboard are pasted the
typewritten rules governing the gallery,
the name of the artist. and whatever is
known concerning nim. and. if there is
any. the story of the picture The rules
of the gallary are:-Pictures may be re-
tanned W weeks. and may be renewed
for an additional week on application to
the custodian:
A fine Of two cents a week must be paid
on each picture kept over time.
No picture will be delivered to a person
mourning a fine until the same Ell Pc u pa aas,
will according to the Judgment OF tns
custodian. ~,
The pictures are all classified and cata-
logued. 1t is. Of course, impossible te
catalogue them alphabetically. Tor tne
collection is constantly being increased
PIT Essa Each f|oa a i 5et tbsn p aeopratedg E 3h les c ilasa.
fcations are portraits and figures, T anf
F; landscape and marine, L and NJ; ant
mails, r; architeeture ana I,se ~inv mo1npnd
is provided with . string so that it may
be hung on the wall.
II is proposed 70 begin circu ! TTs tn tns
House, which Miss Hunt teaches. Eac5
person desiring to a k out pictures Wi
be provided with a membersn,p ca I ih Sil NJ
Pictures must be accompanied by tn
membership card when loaned and n
The object Of this circulating gallery
is to put brightness into the lives O
those who cannot afford to buy brignte,
things. Pictures e hM good eanaDb iGi1sareiS aau eac'
SsrI@R ssP'sii t TINS may ya fsIlY # T t 4 q SssiSss
erect, but but s those ca mSss iafef tha pro an'
deeply think it canno fail. The very fac
that but one picture is out at a tin1'
gains for that picture a ! r uara b oumpf 81
he wall. Later in the year, when tn,
gallery will nave been IN working orde'
for some time, talks vii W tb pc g srtists ap anu
their struggles and of the truths whici
thew tried to represent. On these oeca
sions al haying Lncw in re w,ai I'd It to Ties,
Subjects and their ideas about the PIC
lures and whether the artist succeeded
or failed in his interpretatlons -
and Of the highest order. The custodian
has not yet been chosen, hi, hit so s9r ne resi- 81
Sit;an as H is necessary to have one whit
IS on the ground. The committee need
more pictures and anyone having ~
posi- No. 529 Summit avenue; Miss Har
rison. No. IS Vaudeville avenue; MIS-
Hunt. No. 10 Belmont avenue, or to WHIT