The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-16
ART STUDENTS LEAGUE
New Glasses and Instruct
ors for the Winter
Term.

From advance sheets of the annual an
noun cement of the school it seems thai
will reopen it's classes for the winter tern
of 1901-1902 in it's studios and class rooms
in the American Fine Arts Building, No
215 West Fifth-seventh street, on Monday
September 30. Irving r. Wiles and
Charles G. Curran have been added to the
corps Of Instructors for the coming year
and Messrs. Cox, Mowbray, Dielman
Twachtman, Burroughs, Harper, Bar
nard, Dow, Clinedinst and Hornbostel will
retain the same classes as last season.
The Board of Contdol which will man.
age the affairs of the League during its
twenty-sixth year is made up of c. Y
Turner N. A., president; Carrie Gardner
Helm and Charles D. Graves, vice presi-
dents; Frederick w. Coburn, recording
secretary; Mary S. Lloyd, corresponding
secretary; Walter G. Ball, Treasurer
Margaret Van C. Whitehead, Alice M
Simpson, Annie c. Fletcher, Walter M
Hardy Arthur N. Fuller and Robert A
Graham. The Managing Director is VIM
st. J. Harper.
The life classes for drawing and paint.
ing, will hold five sessions daily, morning
afternoon and evening for men, and
morning and afternon for women.
The special Saturday classes have beer
formed to meet the requirements Of teacn-
ers and scholars wishing to study draw
ing and painting who are unable to attend
during the other days of the week. Crit
icism is given in these classes every Sat
lrday during the summer and winter
term.
A class in architecture will meet every
Monday evening. In this class architec-
tural drafting will be taken up, together
with the history of architecture and orna-
ment. Practical problems will be given
the students to work out. They will be
required to design and draft buildings
interiors, ETC., and to project them in
perspective. AS they advance they will
apply ornament in keeping with the par
ticular style of architecture used, and ar
range schemes Of decoration. The aim
will be to enable the students to gain d
thorough knowledge of the oruers and to
draw correctly any architectural form
from any point of view and decorate ii
harmoniously
Practical perspective will be taught. A
course of ten lectures will be given on
successive Thursday evenings. beginning
February 20, 1902. This course has been
arranged upon lines which will be of ir1-
mediate practical utility to the students
OF the composition. the illustration ard
the drawing and painting classes. Special
problems and work in connection with tbs
composition and architectural classes will
be given. A course of six lectures Oh
the construction and anatomy of the
human figure, illustrated by the living
model and skeleton will be given by Ken
yon Cox, on successive Thursday even
ings commencing January 9, 1902.
In addition to the monthly lectures by
leading men, the League will have occa-
sional exhibitions of the paintings Of
work done by students during the month
TO these exhibitions all interested are in
vited
The opening of the classes of the League
during the summer of 1900 proved so sue.
cessful that it was decided to open the
same classes again during the present
summer, arranging that the school should
remain open continuously throughout the
year. The summer term gives an oppor-
tunity to teachers who wish to continue
their art study or to take up new
branches, and. also to students whose
work makes it impossible for them tc
take advantage of the winter classes
Nearly one hundred students have beer
enrolled in the life, illustration painting
and antique and composition classes OF
the present summer, many of them beins
art teachers from States as distant as
Louisiana, Washington and Maine. The
League class-rooms and studios in the
Fine Arts Building all have north light
and are large and very cool during the
summer, being located on high grount
near Central Park. which is only one min
ute's walk from the League. Permits fol
sketching in the parks and museums car
be readily obtained by students The sue
cess of the summer school this season will
lead to its continuance is future as per
manent feature of the League. The life
painting and illustration classes are *
remain in daily session during September
The opportunity of working from life
and costume models daily throughout ths
midsummer holidays has been apprecla
ted by many teachers and students who
would be debarred from attendance dur
ing the winter term The Illustration
classes where pupils have practical tech
nical instruction in oil, water-coior, pastel
pen-and-ink, etching, gouache, pencil ant
crayon, have been especially we'll attend.
ed this summer.