New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-04
TO BE OPEN ON SUNDAYS.
ACADEMY OF DESIGN EXHIBITION TO BE
FREE ON THOSE DAYS.
NOTEWORTHY INNOVATION IN THE CUSTOMS OF
THE INsTITUTroN-THE EXHIBITION. THE
SEVENTY. THIRD ANNUAL ONE TO
LAST FROM MARCH -
TO MAY "a.

A noteworthy innovation in the customs OF the
National Academy Of Design will be Instituted DIT
IT'S seventy-thrd annual exhibition. which VIII open
on Monday. March Is and close on SATURDAY. May
a. IL Is proposed to have the exhibition open free
TO the public on Sunday afternoons from 70 o.
For upward Of seventy years the Academy mas
been Of such conservative character that the
ma jorty Of the members have stoutly opposed sun
day opening. The venerable ex-president OF the
Academy Daniel Huntington director OF tine
Metropolitan Museum Of Art, at hrst opposed inc
opening Of that institution on Sunday. but later IN
Difference to the popular demand. ceased his oppo-
stion far as both the Metropolitan Museum ana
the Academy concerned. Other Academ'c'ans
also strong Sabbatarians have lately found large
majority against them. and the movement TOT ouh-
day opening will accordingly prevail.
This Is important step I'm advance for an IN
stltution that has been so conservative as 'h'
Academy" remarked wel!-known Academ'cian
yesterday a Tribune reporter. ut VIII undouo'-
eddy be OF great benefit TO the laborng classes ana
will open the Academy to a larger audience among
the people II is an illustration OF the fact that
the Academy is becoming a thoroughly model AM
practical institution in the community. AT the
same time there is no doubt that wise conserva
tsm within the walls OF an institution Is use
fu, the numerous fads OF ephemersl char
acter which declare themselves In the art world
should have time TO prove that they are lasting
before they be ,ome a tenet Of an art creed. VIII
hess. FOR example. the different transitions since
impressionism first declared Itself under Manet
Five years after Manet's death ne would not have
recognized the school that he founded. and to-day
the other eytreme is the popular movement. dark
and obscure shadows and remote symbolism being
the enthusiasm OF the younger painters.
The ,adanly has not only done we'll in making
the Sunday exhibition absolutely free. but no other
course would have been WISE reduced price
OF admission would have been inconsistent with the
idea q making the exhibition Of practical cduca-
tlonal value 1t is. moreover the wish Of many n
the Academicians that tho exhibitions In the new
building on Morningside Heights shall he free week
reserved and an admission charged that those
desiring 70 go and study the works In quiet shall
have that privilege"
The exhibits for the spring exhibition will be re-
ceivod only from March 3 to March ). inclusive
Vanishing day will he March p. The only exhb-
its eligible are original works In OIL. pastel or
sculpture by living artists which have never be-
fore been publicly exhibited in this city. All con-
trbutons will be subject 20 the judgment; 81 the
following jury OF selection. Academicians-t. J.
Turner. f. T. Ninton. Horatio Walker J. =. \
Watrous: Assooiates-J Appleton Brown aud
George de Forest Brush The Hanging Commit q
Is composed Of &. - Weldon and Louis Moellor.
Academic!ans and Edward Gay. Associate. Awards
the best American figure composition painted 10 the
United States 10y American citizen without i'm
s. and 500 for the best three pictures DO Oh coor'
painted IN TIE United States by American cliikc =
under thirty-hvc years OF age. ana the Norman ~
Dodge prize 500 for the best picture painted IN the
age The Academcians do not compete for any Of
the prizes.