“The Fine Arts

Art Notes

About five hundred pupils and their friends gathered in the large lecture-room in the basement of the Metropolitan Museum last Saturday, to witness the closing exercises of the Art Schools. Mr. Henry G. Marquand, President of the Museum, introduced Prof. William R. Ware of Columbia College, Chairman of the Committee on Art Schools, who presided. Prof. Ware announced that Mr. John La Farge, who has charge of the advanced class in painting, had arranged to deliver a series of lectures on the art of painting, in the fall, which should be open to art-students and the public. The course is to begin on Oct. 24, and lectures will be delivered twice a week. Prof. Ware then introduced Parke Godwin, who made a short address to the art-students, dwelling particularly on the progress of art in America. Mr. Marquand also made a brief address. In the advanced antique class the first prize of $30, presented by D. O. Mills, was awarded to Melvin Nichols; and the second, of $25, presented by J. W. Pinchot, to Miss Laura L. Keene. In the drawing from life, Miss F. G. Kendrick won the prize of $50, presented by D. O. Mills. In the class in painting from still life. Miss F. N. Shafer won the prize of $25, presented by W. L. Andrews. In the architectural class, Willard I. P. Randolph won the first prize of $50, presented by Arthur Lyman Tuckerman yearly, in memory of his father, Charles L. Tuckerman, who was for five years the manager of the schools; Harry A. Kapp won the second prize, a volume on the Italian Renaissance, presented by Samuel P. Avery.”

Reference Data:

The Critic, Vol. 19, 1893, page 375