The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-25
AN EXHIBITION OF ART
Made by the Students of the
Agricultural College.
THE DEPARTMENTS WORK
Some Excellent Productions the Result
of the Years Work-A Medal
Secured at the Omaha
Exposition.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.

the art department of the Agricultural
college exhibited their productions in
art to their admiring relatives and
friends. On Saturday afternoon the de-
partment was thrown open to the pub
lie SO all who wished could inspect the
work. It is not often amateurs can
show such good work as was seen on
the walls of the art department. of the
college at this exhibition, and certainly
Mrs. Marshall is entitled to great praise
for the enthusiasm she must have in
spired in her pupils to make them ac-
quire the proficiency they have attain
| ed. The teacher in this department has
| no rules, but all are expected to behave
| themselves as ladies and gentlemen,
| and out of the 70 students enrolled the
last school year not one black sheep
is to be found. The first step taken in
| this department is to teach the students
the alphabet the grammar and the nee
essary compohents of the studio. This
elementary work consists in teaching
| the student to draw and he has to draw
and draw until a certain amount of
proficiency is acquired, They are also
taught perspective to help in water
color painting, and this is also a useful
study for those students who wish to
follow the profession of engineering in
it's many branches and specialties. In
this part of the course the students
draw from plaster casts, from flowers
and studies from life, but are not al
lowed to copy the pictures of other art
lists. Some students follow the line of
copying flowers in their natural state,
others from scroll work or subjects for
book illustrations, and many from other
natural objects as the fancy takes
them, or as their objective point natur-
ally leads them. Those who think they
would like to follow out the study Of
botany find to draw any flower or sppci-
men with facility is great help in their
botanical studies and their professor in
botany is pleased beyond measure.
lhose VINO are following the study Of
entomology find the painting of butter
flies in their varied hues and other in
sects of wondrous color lends an i'm
petus to their work, while the student
In biology cannot despise the study of
art, or he cannot successfully follow his
desires. So it can readily be seen that
| the art department of the college is not
| a place for the passing of an idle hour,
but one where much fundamental the
| DRY is found and many elementary prin-
| clpals expounded where the beauty of
| science is shown. the nandiwork of ma
| ture studied and the soul uplifted, as
| 1t We're, by minute study of the work of
| the Infinite.
| AS lending interest to the study, Mrs.
| Marshall devotes a. part of each week
| during the term to giving art lectures
| and illustrating her remarks with pho
| tographs, oil and water color paintings
| and engraVings. This year the lectures
| were delivered on the renaissance per
| iod of painting and the lectures covered
| the Ire If \
| masters of the 18th century The stu
| dents then had a starting point from
| which to trace back the history of art
! to the time of the ancient Greeks. or
OF following it down its tortuous and
| rugged path to the present age
On entering the middle room of the
| department, on the second floor of the
main building of the college, the walls
| of the three sections seemed covered
with all sorts and conditions of pictures.
On the right hand side of the door were
charcoal drawings of lions, birds and
| other subjects, mostly the work of be-
ginners. On the left hand side were
some more charcoal pencil pictures of
heads sketched from casts, of which
casts the department has an excellent
| collection. A little farther down hung
picture of a snipe beautifully finished
in water colors. The fluffy down on the
| breast the appearance of weight and
| tlC Solol iIiES were faithfully depicted
| by Miss Edna F. Robinson A little
lower down on the wall hung a water
| color painting of an chronological
| study. In this picture Were many but
terfiies, both large and small. bright in
! all the glorious color of this insect or
| clothed in the more sombre hue of a less
| gaudy species. Miss F. Wylie had evil
| IDENTIFY studied her subject well before
entering upon her task. Along the
| walls in various parts We're several pic
| lures on home scenes. The homely
| wash tub, brush and dust pan or the tea
| pot. cup and saucer had found several
| copyists. "A Study in Pipes" by Miss
| e. Robinson, depicted a sack of tobac-
| co and several pipes of different shapes
| lying on a table. and the author evil
| IDENTIFY knows something of pipe lore.
| e. Moore had studied the flower of
| Bozeman-the sweet pea-with good re-
| suits, and a sketch of some apples and
| other fruit by Miss J. H. Cameron
| showed considerable talent. "A Camp
| Fire Scene" by Miss NJ J. Gardner.
| suggests the thought that the artist has
| camped out a number of times There
| were several pictures of this character
| and all were good There are so many
| works worthy of mention by different
| students that It is a hard matter to
| tell which are the most praiseworthy.
| In the east room were pencil and pen
| and ink sketches, and here the varied
| fancies of the students We're shown in
| the diversified collection of well execut-
| ed subjects. In the west room were
studies from life. The advanced class
| has been taking lessons in figure
| sketching for the last few months and
on the wall were the head and Shout
| ders of several of the students, as each
of the class takes his or her turn at a
sitting, which is limited to half an hour
The course in this department material
ly helps the student for entrance to
Columbia college in the engineering
| course. and is accepted there without
further examination. The department
secured the gold medal at the Omaha
exposition for the excellence of the
work of its students and carried off the
honors, too, for the whole of the west
ern section of the United States The
same examination as required in Co
lumbia college, New York, is given by
Mrs. Marshall to her students, and thew
have to equal its curriculum before
they are entitled to recognition. A visit