The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-26
ART At NO. |.
Exhibit to Open This Even
ing in the New York
Street School.
OLD MASTERS LII THERE
Copies Of Famous Paintings
Adorn the Walls Some
Features.
OLD MASTERS ALI THERE

An exhibition Of pictures for the bene-
fit of the public schools Of Jersey City
viii be held this evening in the assembly
room of School No. /. on York street, and
win be kept open one week, until Satur-
day, December 8, at 10 p. NJ, proceeds,
aside from small incidental expenses at
tending The exhibition, to be devoted to
the purchase Of pictures for the schools.
These pictures will be sold at minimum
price By the exhibiting firm. and tickets
may be obtained from the teachers or
through the pupils Of the public schools
at 10 cents each.
The exhibition has the approval Of the
Board of Education and superintendent
Henry Snyder, and is held !. under the
auspices of the Jersey City Teachers As
ISOLATION, assisted by the public school
teachers of the city. Twenty-nine of the
leading museums and galleries of the
world win be represented in addition to
various private collections, as well as the
exhibitions of the Paris Salon of various
years. The collection win contain nearly
FIVE hundred pictures. including the most
important, suitable works of the
| great masters of the Italian, French,
Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, German,
British and American schools Of painting,
and also representing the great naontt-
ments of architecture, examples Of sau.p-
ture and reproductions of drawings Of the
old masters, these latter being mainly in
the form of carbon photographs, directly
from the original works in the great mus
Gums of Europe. There are some photo
gravures, plain photographs ana platiao-
types. All are of a size suitable for the
walls of the usual room, or Of larger sizes
for large rooms and halls.
a catalogue is to be on sale giving the
title of each picture, the museum or gall
lery in which the-original is to he found,
the size and price of the reproduction,
the grade Of schoo for which each pic
ture is recommended, and the full name
of the artist, date and place of his birth,
death, and the school Of painting to which
he belongs.
ming with "A Summer Evening by.
Adam. as No. 1. and ending with a. fine
collection OF the last drawings of the old
French Masters. Each artist has his
especial wall space, with here and there
a portrait of himself surrounded by his
works. There is a fine collection
of the works of Fra Angelica, run-
ming from No. 5 to No. 10 inclusive.
Close beside his collection, which
occupies the centre of the eastern
wall of the assembly room is SargeEt's
famous .sFrieze Of the Prophets Ma
donnas by the various artists look down
from no less thar ten frames, while the
Princess Louise IS seen in head, bust aud
full length portraits. There is also an ex-
eellent collection of portraits of famous
poets, Shakespeare, Byron, Scott and
others, n another of the musicians,
while two of the most conspicuous per-
traits in the room are bromide enlarge
ments Of Washington and Lincoln, the
former hung directly over the platform
and the latter exactly opposite on the
north side of the room.
Not only are the assembly room walls
covered with these pictures. but the ex-
hibition has also overlooked into the four
adjoining class rooms. the collection being
numbered from the main entrance to the
assembly room on the east side, extend
ing thence into the class room on the
left, across the south wall into another
class room, part way across the west wall
in class room No. 3, across The north wall
and into the fourth class room where the
collection Of drawings above mentioned is
on view.
MurrilIo, velagquez, Van Dyke, Rem
brandt, Raphael and Titan are all well
represented. as wen as the most pro1ni-
nent of American artists. The whole is
arranged with a view to school room
adaptation.
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