New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-16
MONTCLAIR MUSEUM
OF ART IS OPENED
Big ThrOng Present at Re-
ceptiOn and Dedication
Exercises.
$50 PAINTINGS
ON EXHIBITION
Mrs. Henry Lang Gave 100000
for Building-W. T. Evans
Presented Collection.


Montclar. y. J.. Jan 1.-THE Montclsir
Art Museum was formally opened to-
night with a reception. winch was attend
ed by about eight hundred members Of
the Montclair Art Association. art sts
who contributed their works TO the first
loan exhibition Of the museum and in
, vitad guests The new building is at
South Mountain and Bloomfield avenues.
and was erected through the generosity
OF Mrs. Henry Lang. Of Montclair. who
contributed S000 for that purpose.
The museum contains q collection OF
! hfty-four paintings by American artists.
presented TO the association by William
r. Evans its president; six water color
paintings. given by Mrs. Mary +. Wilde:
sculpture. presented by Mr.. Evans and
Mrs Lang: n collection OF Indian art OBJ
iects given by Mrs. Lang; a collection of
art objects. given by Mrs. Wilde. and
Jacobean chair given by the Montclair
| Daughters Of the American Revolution.
= which is made from timber Of the British
frigate Augusta. sunk b. the American
forces in the Delaware. and u replica
OF the chair presented To the Nhlte
House by the New Jersey Daughters OF
the American Revolution in Presden.
Taft's administration.
Besides these works OF art, which are
10 be on permanent exhibition. there are
more than two hundred paintings that
have been loaned by professional artists
of Montclair and vicinity. The loan eX-
hibition will continue two weeks. Mr..
Evans has also presented TO the art as
ISOLATION a bronze group. The sun
Vow" by Hermon Atkins MacNeil, when
surmounts bowder on the lawn at the
entrance to the building. Conspicuous IN
the sculpture is the figure. ~ Crown Tor
the Victor" by William Copper. of Mont
clair. which was presented by Mrs. Lang
The dedicatory exercises were simple III
character. speeches being made by Nj.
Evans the president. and the Rev. Henry
e. Jackson. president OF the Montclalr
| Civic Association, where the museum
project had its inception. Mr.. Jackson
referred TO the ambition of the assocla-
ton TO acquire land adjacent TO the ne"
museum and TO continue the building OPP
erations until the structure conforms To
| the design OF the architects.
The movement TO provide Montclair
with an art museum began in 1908, when
| William r. Evans. president of the Mu-
nicipal Art Commission. wrote letter 10
the commission Offering to present to the
town collection OF thirty paintings by
American artists Of established reputa-
| tim. This was TO serve as a nucleus FOR
an art gallery, provided arrangements
could be made for suitably housing the
collection.
This offer OF Mr. Evans was followed
within a few days by another from Mrs.
Henry Lang of $4,000 toward the erecuorl
of an art gallery and museum, on conoi-
ton that one room should be named IN
| honor Of her mother, Mrs. Annie Naien-
tine Rand. These gifts led TO the organi-
zation on December S. 1910. OF the Mont
clair Art Association, with an enrolment
| of several hundred members. and. event
ually, 10 the building of the museum y
| fund Of $4,000 was raised by members oil
the association for the purchase Of the
site, and later Mrs Lang gave No'"U
additional TO the building fund.
The artists represented in the perma-
neI,t collection presented by Mr.. Evans
! include George Inness. who painted many
J of mis- best known pictures while living IN
| Nontclair; j. II. Twacbtman, j. Alden
Weir. Alexander II. Wyant, Homer d.
Tartin. Frederick J. Waugh, Charles
Warren Eaton, F. S Church, Hugo Balm,
! T.. W. Deming, VIII II. Low, x. Swan
| Clifford. Frederick Dielman, Bruce Crane,
! George lnness, jr., George Il. Browne
| Childe Hassam. John Francis Murphy
and about a score of others. The title OF
the Inness picture in the gallery Is in
the Woods, Milton"
The officers of the Montclair Art Asso-
citation are Mr. Evans. president; Elliott
Marshall. president: Mrs. Robert
Hoe Dodd. second vce-presdent' FRANK
H. Presbrey secretary; Henry Lang
trea and Miss Helen Kent Taylor
curator.