The sun., 1919-10-20
TIFFANY POUNDS
SCHOOL OF ART
Turns Over Estate and Collec-
tions at Cold Spring Har-
Dor to. Foundation.
GIVES MILLION BESIDES
Institution Planned to Provide
for Artists Who Show
Real Ability.

Announcement was made yesterday
that Louis Comfort Tiffany has
turned over his estate and collections
at Cold Spring Harbor together with
an endowment of more than a million
dollars for the foundation Of an In
stitution where artists and art
students Of professional maturity may
pursue studies and original work
under the most favorable conditions
The institution win be known as the
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.
Work has already been started to
convert the buildings on the estate
into studios and dormitories and It is
expected that the first dozen students,
all men, may be- installed in May.
In addition to the founder the fol-
lowing will constitute the board of
trustees: Robert w. de Forest, Daniel
Chester French, Francis C. Jones,
George F. Kunz Henry w. de Forest,
and Charles L. Tiffany, with George
F. Heydt as secretary and treasurer.
An advisory art committee has been
appointed with Cass Gilbert, Robert
Vonnah, Harry W. Watrous and Mrs.
Lothrop to He Director.
Stanley Lothrop. formerly with the
Boston Museum and more recently lee
turer in fine arts in the American Acad-
emy in Rome, has been appointed d.
rector of the foundation and is already
established at Laurelton Hall, the name
of Mr.. Tffany's place at Cold Sprins
Harbor
The foundation of this institution Is
understood to be the consummation of a
long cherished dream of Mr. Tiffany
He has worked in almost 'all the arts
himself. being a painter and sculptor OF
skill and a designer OF costumes, tex.
tiles and interior decoration as we'll az
the inventor and developer OF the famou.
Tiffany glass. His collections at Cold
Spring Harbor contain no great classic
originals but cover perhaps the widest
field of any collection in this country
embracing well chosen examples in both
the fine and applied arts, Oriental ai
well as Occidental
Though all of Mr.. Tiffanys trustees
and the art advisory committee indicate
! that the academic tradition will per
wade the atmosphere at Cold Spring Har,
bor. Mr.. Tiffany has made 1t very plair
that he Is not founding a school oi
| dogma, but a place where men, ant
| later women. of promise and knowledg,
| may work out their own ideas In botf
the fine and the Industrial arts.
Founder Explains.
my Intention" Mr.. Tiffany said, Ell
70 provide a place where artists wht
have had elementary training and whS
show real ability. can work In sympa.
thetic and inspiring surroundings. Their,
will of course be necessary rules which
must be observed. but there will be n,
head master to prescribe cast iron meth
ods of teaching to which all must con
/ form. My hope is by stimulating Low,
| OF beauty and imagination to give fre,
play to development without the tram
mels of schools or conventions"
The estate comprises eighty acres. Fol
| the present It Is planned to operat,
the institution only In the summer. Al
the facilities are improved. however, 4
is stated that women students will b,
admitted and that the institution ma,
| be kept open the year round.
Mr.. Ttfany's art library which h,
| has also turned over is one of the larg
| est and best selected in New York. HI
will continue to live on the place. bu
will not attempt to direct it's work.
is understood that a small fee will b,
charged for the living expenses OF stu
dents, but that In certain worthy case
even this will be RENTED.
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