New-York tribune., 1907-12-27
ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIPS
FOR YORK IN ROME.
Report of American Institution
Vdla Mnefor1 Improvements.

Announcement made yesterday of the
decision Of special committee CT trustees OF
the American Academy in Rome. which was en-
powered to choose three scholarship men, one In
each OF the departments Of architecture. sculpt-
and painting, to receive $1,000 year for
three years. and who would agree to follow the
curriculum Of the academy The committee was
composed Of S. B. P. Trowbridge, Daniel c.
French Edwin Howland Blashfield and H. Sid
dons Mowbray. The architect chosen by Mr.
Trowbridge was Ernest Farnham Lewis, Of Bos-
ton. The sculptor chosen by Daniel c. French
was Sherry E. Fry, now in Europe. The deci-
sion CT Mr.. Blashfield and Mr.. Moubray was
that painter should not be appointed this year.
The man appointed must be in Rome on January
81 1908. Next year regular competitions for the
scholarships viii be instituted.
It announced that the amount
subscribed to the s1.0oo,00o endowment fund,
which was started on the basis OF ten subscrip-
tions of 500 900 each. had reached 100000. 1t
expected that the last 100000 needed to
complete it would be forthcoming. Up to the
present time subscriptions of 100000 each have
been received from ]. Pierpont Morgan. Henry
Walters, William K Vanderbilt, James Stillman.
Henry c. Frick and Harvard University through
Henry l. Higginson. Efforts to raise 100000
each also being made by Yale University,
tolunD1d University, the University or CHlcdSo
and the Society of BeGux Arts Architects.
None OF the subscriptions has been called in,
but the founders have placed in the treasury of
the academy amount equivalent to per cent
on their subscriptions to meet the current ex-
penses. As scholarship men are sent TO
Rome the expenses will naturally increase and
the entire income from an endowment fund of
Sl,000000 VIII be needed to carry the school
with its full complement of students
AT recent meeting Of the executive commit
tee of the academy the secretary, Frank D. Mil
let was instructed to prepare for the information
OF the members a report OF the work of the
academy in the past year Mr.. Millets report
compiled from the letters of CT. W. Breck, di-
rector of the academy, and from other sources
which has just been finished, is in part as fol-
lows:
The academy had no students of it's own until
The present year. but provided d home for
number of scholarship men from various institU-
TONS and gave them general suggestions and
advice for study. together with instruction
as circumstances warrant ted. Late last year the
executive committee selected three scholarship
men in architecture sculpture and painting,
spectively, who accepted a subvention of $1,000
year for three years. and agreed TO follow the
curriculum detailed in the prospectus one of
these men. Henry E Warren, already the
holder of the Julia Appleton scholarship from
Harvard. with one year more to run. but it was
agreed that as he had already been studying In
the academy in Rome his last year there should
count his first year in the three year scholar
ship of the academy. The two other men.
Charles Y Harvey sculptor and Barry Faulk-
ner, painter, to Rome and entered the
academy on January 81 1907.
Eleven were regularly accredited 10 and
were working in the academy in the season
19o6-'o7 and five men came from various institu-
tions requesting the director to grant them the
privileges OF the academy. They made steady
Of the drafting room and made their head
quarters lat the academy for periods varying
from month to six months. Many other appl-
cations for the privileges OF the academy were
made in person by letter. but the lack of room
obliged the directors to restrict the formal ad-
mission TO those mentioned.
To supplement the work done in the daytime
the director established a life class. with voun-
tary attendance, meeting daily from 3 10 p m.
and twenty four art students availed themselves
of the opportunity to study drawing from the
living model.
The academy has Of course direct control
only over its own scholarship men. The others
are responsible TO their respective committees in
America, TO whom they send letters each quarter
giving a report of their work and an account OF
their travels
Seven of the eleven men mentioned will
main at the academy the whole or Il part of the
coming season, and with the successors OF those
whose terms have expired and the new academy
scholarship will occupy all the available
room in the Villa Mira1ori.
Since the property was purchased a new cross
street has been laid out. leaving narrow strip
between IL and the academy grounds. This strip
should he purchased. If possible. as 1t would
make a valuable addition to the property. lt
would complete entire city block and would
afford desirable site for studios which could
pe more conveniently situated there than In any
other part of the grounds
The villa has been thoroughly renovated and
repaired, but the executive committee has been
unable to make certain needed improvements.
and the students will work in the ordinary
apartments OF the villa until studios can be pro-
vided.