The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-30
ART In INDUSTRY
Professor O. L. Triggs and the In
dustrial Art League.
IT'S A SPECIAL WORK WITH HIM
Its Purpose Is to Separate Art
Workers From the Fac
nss@ tory System.

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Professor Oscar L. Triggs of the Uni
verslty of Chicago, who is to lecture at
Plymouth church tomorrow evening on
'Lengfellow Sixty Years After" has a
hobby that is quite apart from his work
as a professor This hobby is the pro-
motion CT Industrial art. To that end he
is active in the Industrial Art League,
OF which he may be said to be one of the
chief organizers. He is now secretary OF
the league The object of the league is
to initiate new industrialism, to correct
the present abuses OF labor and to give,
to industrial work an educative and ar
tistic value. ..
The league seeks to promote the in
dustrial art idea, that is the appreciation
, OF art In industry, by means of lectures
and a magazine which is to be founded,
holding the same relation to the workshop
that the art magazine does to the StuGto.
1t has now in Chicago, at 264 Michigan
svenue isa salesroom for the use of indus
trial art workers. If the plan prospers
tits salesroom will develop into a depart
ment store. The league wishes to pro-
mote the organization of guilds of art
workers. and il tends generally to provide
workshops and tools for the use of guilds
of artists and craftsmen and means for
the exhibition ana sale of their products.
to give instruction in the arts and crafts
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The idea Is to have these art workers
work for the public instead of a corpora
tion or Individual Any person contri but
Ing $40 to the league will become mem
be- of it for one wear. A gift of 500 car
ries with it life membership. The league
Is cooperating with a number of work
shops in Chicago, Longwood and La
Porte. Arrangements are being made
for the development of several new crafts.
1t is hoped to establish in Chicago
large central workshop for the use Of
all the arts and crafts The workshop
will be conducted on artistic and. educa-
tional lines as we'll as commercially and
will serve as an experiment station for
the discovery of new industrial processes
and the encouragement. of invention.
When products Of the workers are sold,
the proceeds are turned over to them, less
small percentage for expenses
This novel and promising movement was
started, three years ago by a company of
Chicago artists, among them Julia Brack-
en- and George Schneider, who recognized
the necessity for workshop. 1t was
soon taken UP by E. P. Rosenthal and
Professor Triggs. Mr.. Rosenthal is now
devoting his entire time and attention to
the promotion Of the idea. So far Mrs.
Warren Springer and Frank o. Lowden
have been the most generous con-
tributors. To build the central workshop
will require 100000, and considerable
part Of this sum is already in sight.
Professor Trggs has for ten years enter
tanned the idea of putting 1ndustrialism
on a higher plane. He will have con-
siderable share in the active direction of
the Workshop. 49,
II am not sure" said Professor Triggs,
In a recent interview, that we will es-
tablsh our first workshop within the city
limits, although we have the site at Van
Buren, and Green streets. offered by Mrs.
Warren Springer. I am in favor of To-
eating the workshop in the country, as 1t
would perhaps be better to get away from
the stress of the factory system.
.:'"For the detailed organizat ton of the
workshop contemplate a workshop fitted
for practically all of the crafts, with ma
chimes for wood work, metal work, pot
making and decorative ceramic work,
weaving and all textile work. There
would be fifteen master workmen, archi-
tect, decorator, sculptor, wood worker
metal worker, patternmaker glass work
or, lathe worker, painter, illustrator,
bookbinder. etcher, weaver, embroiderer
and photographer. Associated with them
would be a few scientists, chemist and
physicist. Each master workman would
be in charge of group Of workers in
department. e.
Instead of single proprietor or own
or we would substitute the public. The
profit to the public would work out in
two directions, the prices Of products
would be reduced and the returns for the
workers would be increased"
During the past season fourteen gen
eral lectures have been given in co-opera-
zion with the Illinois State society of the
Daughters Of the Revolution. The lee
lures were without fee and with free dis
cussion. The subjects and the lecturers
were as follows: "The Constitution and
How 1t Was Made" Judge Charles G.
Nicely, industrial Art Professor Oscar
Lowell sTriggs; "Ibsen's The Enemy of
the People," Jenkin Lloyd Jones; ga
Talk to the People," Mayor Samuel M.
Jones of Toledo Henry George Louis F
Post: Realism in Art; Study in
Colors,' Marguerite Warren Springer;
1.-The Future School, Colonel Francis W.
Parker; "Heine; a Soldier in the Liberia
ton War of Humanity" William M
Salter: "The Blight Of the Army; Marion
Craig Wentworth; 'The Newer Ideals OF
Peace Jane Adams; Man and the Ma
chine" Frank Lloyd Wright; 'The Com
ing Society,"" Professor Albion w. Small
"Charity or Justice, which," Professor
Emil G. Hirsch; 'The Future of Mill
tarism," Professor J. James.
The Industrial Art League movement is
0ne that has aroused Professor Triggs
highest. enthusiasm. He has put all his
heart into the movement and hopes to see
It grow into great success and usefulness