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the Improvement Of the triangular
park bounded by Broadway, Sixth ave-
nue. and Thirty fifth street, that an
extension of time has been allowed TO
entrants, anil the programme may now
be secured later than September 30.
the date originally set.
This project is based on the offer OF
r. II. Macy a Co. of three cash prizes
for a design to be subsequently car
ried out under the supervision OF the
successful competitor The interest Is
testified to by the fact that over forty
requests for programmes were re-
ceived from intending competitors on
the first day of announcement in the
press. An exhibition Of all designs
submitted will probably be held follow
ing the decision of the jury.
ings made on the backgrounds of
France, sometimes during actual COM
bat, by eight American artists COM
missioned by the War Department to
truthfully portray events and locali-
ties of the war have just been depos-
I tied by the War Department in the
United States National Museum at
Washington. and part of them are
already on exhibition to the public.
The eight artist-officers are all
known to the American public. They
are Capts. w. X. Aylward, w. J.
, Duncan, Harvey Dunn. George Har-
r ding, Wallace Morgan, Ernest Peixotto.
Andre Smith and Harry Townsend.
, These men were given commissions in
the Engineer Reserve Corps and sent
to France, and after recording picto-
rally life in the rear areas they went
, to the front and sketched actual COM
= bat scenes. The fighting pictures are
+ from the st. Mihiel and Argonne
drives
e The sketches are full Of life and
). action and will give the American
public an idea of the war unembel-
hshed by imaginative illustrators and
J hction writer's, a thing which has
never before been done. A few titles
will give an idea of the scope of the
work; Troops descending the Mo-
selle." "Thiaucourt church after the
final bombardment," "A tank surprises
and cleans up an enemy machine gun
nest" Tanks attacking early. Septem-
3, ber 26." "The pursuit-United States
I. Army crossing the old No Mans Land
in the ST. Mihiel sector in pursuit Of
= the retreating enemy" "On the crest
of No Mans Land" Pathway to
peace" american gunfire early morn
{ ing. opening Verdun offensive"
These paintings and sketches, which
will be on permanent exhibition at
the National Museum. viii make a
faithful record of Americas part in
the war which will be of intense inter-
est and value to future generations.
q The American Museum of Natural
/, History announces an exhibition of
Industrial art with special relation to
- textiles and costumes to open on No
vember ~. This exhibition will bring
to the attention of teachers. students
professional workers and the general
/ public the surprising advances made
\ in decorative industrial art during the
last Ave years When the great war
! began American manufacturers were
Il thrown on their own resources by the
K closing of the centres of design in
4 Europe. AS result of this depriva-
II ton goods of high artistic merit, in
| every sense American, are now being
made in the United States, where pre-.
II viously the lead of Europe was i'm.
/ plicity followed. The period of doubt
4 and experiment is now over and a
II pathway of future advancement
Il clearly indicated toward the goal Of 6
r. truly national art.
The exhibition will cover a variety OF
II subjects. A salon of costumes by Gre
X ative artists in woman's dress will bt
a popular attraction, as well as = dis
4 play OF striking designs in dress silk,
I and cottons. draperies. ribbons, &c.
manufactured ty leading American
II textile houses The inspirations fol
NhSSC OIlSll their
in chronological specimens in museum
< collections. Designers for the mos
4 progressive houses in America have
studied carefully the examples of ap
Il piled art Of different ages aud peoples
on view in the public museums ot New
York and have drawn therefrom man!
ideas of practical value.
II On the side of mechanics the rela
k tion between ancient and modern ma
II chinery will be brought out in the his
u tory of the loom, of block printing, o
4 embroidery ana of other methods o
ls weaving and decorating cloth. Severa
is modern textile machines will be showl
H ir actual operation. Batik. tie dyeini
/, and other hand crafts will be full
n treated by examples in process. Nearl
all the technical features of moderl
weaving go back to primitive times
when Adam delved and Eve span,
and there are many ancient types o
textile construction that cannot b
done with modern machinery. At thi
time selected specimens will be brough
together from the various collection
in the American Museum to show h
y fundamental relations between desig
and construction, Material to be use
10 by teachers and students of art in tn
schools of New York is now Neing pre-
n pared In the American N Iaeum q
70 Natural History in cooperation wit