New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-16
PUBLIC SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
MISS STARR. OF CHICAGO. LECTURES ON
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL ART SOCIETY.


BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE WORK AND THE PrR-
POSE OF THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AID THEIR USE.
The Public School Association listened yesterday
afternoon TO a practical talk by Miss Ellen G
Starr OF the Hull House. Chicago. the work o!
the Public School Art Society OF Chicago.
Miss. Starr gave brief outline OF the work and
purpose OF this society. how 1t first original ted
IN the mind OF Mrs Horsfa OF Manchester Eng
land. who said. Art in education is decision
whether the mass OF the people shall be barbarian
or civilized" and the speaker said in part that our
public schools should afford all children the
possibility OF the best development There Is little
value in reading unless there is something in the
memory or imagination which responds to the
printed words.
II is impossible to give any idea o, the beautiful
things In life children brought up in the environ
ment OF tenement factory life who have never
Nature.
To children In the city schools there should be
pictures OF trees and birds and flowers. while In
country schools the children should be made famil-
lar with beautiful streets and buildings and his
toric places OF cities
All schoolrooms should be attractive, and es-
pecially cheerful in color. which will serve as a
background for the pictures and casts.
The subjects OF the large solar prints which have
been selected for the decoration Of the Goodrich
School, in Chicago the Egyptian pyramids the
Cathedral OF Amiens. the equestrian s'alue ~
Donatello and the lion OF Lucerne
Mis-! Starr believes II is absolutely necessary 10
have color in the pictures used in the primary ana
kinaergarten grades. and recommends waiter
Cranes 'rlora's Feast" unbound and 'ramed III
Eve groups OF eight plates 10 frame some ol
tho Iron Cross Company Of Boston meet the Color
raed better than any other being In Dod anu nat
coorinr and designed for large spaces anu ''7
distances. ,,,- c.o-r was that ex-
lhits ~ collections Of good pictures De h'iu ~.
schoorooms where not only the scholtrs;, pu tbi
narcnfs NAV see something OF the peaul nm,
mitch 90 10 make UP the best or our 1Nes am
thereby be elevated and improved c..,,,or,
AR Edwin Waldo Of the JnlVerslty 20 phI,.
.a,a an address uDon Decoration LOT the IupSiiie
Stoois saving that need 10 AWAKEN puDi.t,,
Interest and then what IS now an ilroN1'iqla,, a
hocor,n a reality because there VIII DC = ", Iii
for these things and increased monetary "iu VIZ
follow. ~. - beautiful sur
roundines declaring that harmony Is way ~
Strs SCHUYLER Van Rensselaer,, the presld,ent;;
eroka of the progress made IN the loIilp7 Selt
~ ho,s which is under the care OF TINS aSsoci
20, ard made an earnest plea for money di'u
' 81 ranor,ed the boys as exceedingly interested
,ba sin,nIe talks OF the teachers. and SAID tnat
.he warden had allowed them TWO nours i''''U
tion The lessons include gymna sizes A .h,.
II is hoped that ii the school lves Ihrous" .
wear the city will make an appropII.''o" "'N'
ssossor md the work become permanent. -, l.,
Tbe nresident also reported an encourds,hs -, :
forest In the associate sixty members hd'i"s
Joined since the last annual meeting