Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07
BAILEY PLANS MUSEUM
T0D|SPLAY EVOLUTION
Wants Years Indicated on Walls
and World Progress Shown in
Scale Models.

Henry Turner Bailey was the lecturer
at the first meeting of the season OF
191b-1916 Of the Art and Archaeology
League. held in the auditorium of the
National Museum Friday evening.
He presented a scheme for a great
educational museum which would illus
| trate in effective fashion the evolution
of the various arts from their begin
nings down to the present time. Mr..
Bailey is editor of the School Arts
Magazine and director of the School of
Arts and Crafts in the chautauqua sum-
mer schools.
Owing to the wide interest in his sub
ject, the league invited to be present
| to hear Mr. Bailey the members of the
Washington Society of the Archaeo-
logical Institute. the Society of Fine
Arts and other art societies. Prof.
| league. presided. In introducing Mr..
Bailey he said that the league is just
entering upon the third year of activ-
| ity and during that time has enrolled
a membership of 200.
Mr.. Bailey Presents Idea.
What we need is different type of
poses." said Mr.. Bailey. This museum
should have a long central hall, must
| be 500 feet long or, to be more exact,
5000 inches in length. The walls must
! be unbroken in order to allow a scale
of time to be marked off on the walls
and floor, an inch of space to year
and the centuries marked off in red
This will enable us to study art in Its
| relation to civilization.
| "In the center of the hall will be a
large show case running the length of
| 10 models
of the worlds most important build
| ings, from the pyramids down to the
| Woolworth building-all made on the
same scale. Arranged in their respec-
tive places in regard to the scale of
time. it will be an easy matter to OBJ
serve the evolution of architecture.
| Against the two side walls will also
be show cases. On the right side the
| case will contain the ships of the
| world and the tools of civilization from
the earliest stages. Above the case
on the wall want the life lines of the
great rulers and historians of the world
! so that we may not only see the ma
| terials with which the work of the
| world was carried on under these
great men, but also follow the political
history.
I'm the case on the left hand side of
| the room will be the tools of the arts
and crafts-from the hand loom down
| to the multiple color printing press.
| Above these will be the life lines OF
| the great artists and sculptors of the
| world. This will enable US to tell at a
glance what years were the greatest in
the history of art. For instance, the
year of 1900 was one of the greatest
| in the course of civilization, while dur
| ing the dark ages practically nothing
| was accomplished In the cause of art.
| Attached to every object in the room
| will be label, with reference to the
best book on that particular subject.
| In hall of this sort 1 could teach a
| half-grown boy more in one day than
| grown man could learn in one year
| in any other museum in the country.
No National Galleries.
Now, for the other galleries, I would
have no halls of the Dutch or German
schools-they are too confusing. In
stead. 1 would have gallery of por-
| traiture, a gallery of furniture, of
ceramics, of jewelry."
The league was formed to advance
| interest in the educational aspects of
art, archaeology and the humanities
through the various colleges and
schools of Washington and other
agencies.
The active members of the league
were invited to visit, at $3.50 o'clock
Monday afternoon, the studio of Michel
Jacobs, 1905 Pennsylvania avenue.
when he will give an informal address
on THE Theory of Color in Por-
| traiture."