Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
THRONd n OPENING
OF ART MUSEUM
Hundreds at Dedieatory Exer'
cises Of Montclair
Institution.

The Montclair Art Museum was in
formally opened last night with re-
eeption to members of the Montclair
Art Association, artists who contrib
uted their works to the first loan ex-
hibition of the museum and invited
guests. Mrs. Henry Long, who con-
tributed 100000 for the erection of
the building, and William I. Evans,
president of the art association, who
gave 100000 worth of paintings to
the museum, received. This evening
the museum will be opened to the
public.
The new building is at Bloomfield
and South Mountain avenues. The
permanent pictures are hung in the
north room and the loan exhibit is
placed in the south room, while the
statuary is in the corridor.
The museum contains a collection
of fifty-four paintings by American
artists, presented to the association
by William T. Evans; six water color
paintings, given by Mrs. Mary u.
Wilde. sculpture, presented by Mr..
Evans and Mrs. Lang: a collection
of Indian art objects, given by Mrs.
Wilde, and a Jacobean chair, given
by the Montclair Daughters of the
American Revolution, which is made
from timber of the British frigate
Augusta, sunk by the American
forces in the Delaware, and is rep
lica of the chair presented to the
White House by the New Jersey
Daughters of the American Reyolu-
ton in President Taft's administra-
ton.
Besides these works of art, which
are to be on permanent exhibition,
there are more than two hundred
paintings that have been loaned by
professional artists of Montclair and
vicinity. The loan exhibition Will
continue two weeks.
The dedicatory exercises were
simple in character, speeches being
made by Mr.. Evans, the president,
and Rev. Henry E. Jackson. presi-
dent of the Montclair Civic Associa-
ton, where the museum project had
its inception. Mr.. Jackson referred
to the ambition of the association
to acquire land adjacent TO the new
museum and to continue the build
ing operations until the structure
conforms to the design of the archi-
tects.
Among the artists whose works are
included in the loan exhibit, and
who were present last night, are
Lillian Adams, William j. Awkward,
Mrs William ]. Awkward, William
]. Baer, Edith Barry, Mrs. W. ].
Bartnett, George Bellows, d. C.
Boyd, r. Sloan Bredin, Alice Ham
Brewer, Horace Brown, Charles j.
Budd, Marion F. Butts, John F. Carl
son, Oliver NJ Chaffee, jr., James
D. Chaplin, Mrs. ]. Alfred Chard,
Gustav Cirmotti, Richard Hamilton
Copper, Fred Crane Randall Davey,
Edward Dufner. Harry Dyer, L. c.
Earle, Charles Warren Eaton, Harry
Fem, Lillian Fem, Walter Fem,
VIII Howe Foote, Frank P. French,
Frederick Albert Fulton, Emelle K.
Greenough, Thomas K. Hannah,
Rachel Hartley, William Hasler,
James S. King, F. P. Xix, Joseph
LAUDER, Josephine Mahon, Thomas
R. Marley, Mrs. Timothy D. Merwin,
Una Miles, Gustav Minker, Henry R.
Poore, John Rae, Henning Ryden,
Charlotte Schetter, Adelaide Sheibley,
Frank Stout, Mrs. Ida NJ. Whaley
Strahan, Clara Stroud, Mrs. Ida Wells
Stroud, Douglas Volk, Catherine
Watkins, f. Coulton Waugh, Fred
erick j. Waugh, Margaret Ely Webb,
Lois Wilcox, Frederick Ballard Will |
Jams, Mrs. Jessie Wood Wilson, Can
dace Wood, Catherine Wood Nearly |
all of these artists have three pic |
lures on exhibit. The sculptors rep |
resented in the loan exhibit are
Thomas Ball. Mrs. W. ]. Bartnett, |
William Copper, Johannes Sophus, |
Gilbert and ]. Scott Hartley.