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CONTENTS
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THE FUTURE OF THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION, by John
Pickard . g
THE SOURCES OP ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE, by Charles
R. Morey .
THE SIGNIFICANCE OP ORIENTAL ART, by Ananda Coomar-
ASWAMY . jy
CAMOUFLAGE AND ART, by Homer Saint Gaudens . 23
THE NECESSITY OF DEVELOPING THE SCIENTIFIC AND
TECHNICAL BASES OF ART, by Edwin M. Blake . 31
REVIEWS . oQ
NOTES .
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The Future of the College Art Association
by John Pickabd
(President’s address at the Eighth Annual Meeting, New York,
May 12, 1919.)
'C'OR the fifth time I have the pleasure of appearing
^ before you to deliver the annual address of the
President.
The meetings of this association over which I
have had the honor to preside were held in 1915 in the
Albright Art Grallery, in Buffalo ; in 1916 at the Univer¬
sity of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; in 1917 in con¬
nection with the University of Cincinnati and the
Museums Association, in Cincinnati ; in 1918 in the
Metropolitan Museum, New York. In 1919 we return
to the Metropolitan in order that we may offer to our
members the advantages afforded by the American
Federation of Arts, which will convene in the Museum
in the days immediately following our own meeting.
During these years our membership roll has great¬
ly lengthened until it now contains some 220' names.
The attendance upon our annual sessions in spite of
war conditions has constantly and steadily increased.
The papers and discussions have been of ever greater
interest and importance.
For the Buffalo meeting, owing to the bankrupt
state of our treasury, we could only send out a mimeo¬
graphed summary of the proceedings. For the Phila¬
delphia meeting we printed a 32-page bulletin (No. 2
of our series) containing a brief resume of some of the
papers presented with a statement of the periodicals
in which the other papers might be found printed in
full. Bulletin No. 3 contains a complete report of the
Cincinnati meeting with all the papers then presented.
Bulletin No. 4, the largest and best of the series, con¬
tains all the papers and a full account of the New
York meeting of last year.
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Through all these years inuch valuable committee
work has been done. It will not be invidious to men¬
tion three committees. One committee with Professor
Pope as chairman has ready for publication a very im¬
portant bibliography of books for the College Art
Library. Another committee with Professor Robinson
as chairman is making from year to year valuable sug¬
gestions concerning “Reproductions for the College
Museum and Art ^Gallery.” Conditions pertaining to
war have seriously impeded the work of Professor
Smith’s Committee on “Investigation of Art Educa¬
tion in American Colleges and Universities.” Still, the
foundation of the work has been laid, and arrangements
have been completed whereby the investigations of this
committee will receive the strong support of the National
Bureau of Education.
As the years have passed, our vision has grown
clearer and our sympathies broader. We have learned
that we must coordinate the art work in colleges and
universities with the educational work in our museums
and art galleries. We have discovered that this associ¬
ation is vitally interested in the art work of high
schools, grammar schools, grade schools, primary
schools, and kindergartens. We have found that every
movement for civic art should receive our earnest sup¬
port. We have become convinced that we, as members
of the College Art Association of America, are vitally
concerned with art as it appears or fails to appear in
all the avenues of national, state, and civic life; we
have come more thoroughly to know that for every
citizen of the Great Republic art is not a luxury but a
necessity. More and more clearly do we perceive that
the neglect of art in our system of education from the
kindergarten to the graduate school is a criminal
neglect.
By this last I mean not only that every child
should, as a matter of course, learn to draw; that
every pupil looking towards a vocation should re¬
ceive that art training which will best fit him for his
career; that every student should possess that increased
keenness of vision and that added power of diserimi-
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nation which comie with technical art training of eye,
of hand, and of brain. I mean more than all this. The
most precious half of education is that which shall put
our youth in possession of the great heritage of the
past. Among the records of bygone ages the most
valuable, stimulating, and truly educational are the
mighty monuments of the art of the men who have
lived before us. Familiar acquaintance with the most
important of these should be the inalienable right of
every child in American schools. It is my belief that
no teacher of any subject taught in our schools is
capable of doing his best work for his pupils unless
he himself possess such knowledge and culture as will
enable himi to serve as a guide in the appreciation and
understanding of the works of art which most splen¬
didly set forth the creative genius of our race. No
school or system of schools should meet with the ap¬
proval of any superintendent if it does not send out
teachers who have both knowledge and appreciation of
art. For I believe in the universality of art, that art
is universal and universally necessary.
Each year, when I, as President, have addressed
you, I have stressed the importance of the work which
this association has to do — not that there are honors
that we should claim by virtue of the fact that we rep¬
resent institutions of higher learning; but that there is
a great, unselfish and devoted service that we as dis-
sciples of art, should strive to render in the great
cause of universal education as well as in the various
institutions at which we are employed.
But now in this tremendous period of reconstruc¬
tion after the Great War we are confronted with a task
the magnitude of which we did not dream of one short
year ago. If America is to succeed in the commercial
struggle that is already upon us, she will succeed by
virtue of the sound development of American artists
and American art in the next decade. Here is a great
problem that the College Art Association of America
should help to solve.
But how shall we reach the eye and the ear and
penetrate the understanding of those in authority, of
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Trustees, Presidents, and Faculties? How shall we influ¬
ence students and laymen? How shall we persuade them
all to accept this fundamental truth, that in the entire
range of the curriculum there exists no other subject so
universal in its interest, so absolutely necessary for
a rounded education, so entirely practical in its applica¬
tion to the daily life of all men, as is this subject of
art?
We have been meeting once a year. We have read
to our colleagues excellent papers. We have printed
these papers in our bulletins and we have sent these
bulletins to our members. We have placed them in
some of the libraries of the land, where for the most
part they repose in dignified seclusion. Our meetings
have been of much interest and value to those who at¬
tend. But how far have we gone in the way of reach¬
ing the great outside world? Not very far, I fear. The
one great, crying, insistent need of this association to¬
day is an adequate means and method of carrying on
our propaganda, of teaching our members, of influenc¬
ing educators, of convincing the multitude. This propa¬
ganda cannot be made effective by a bulletin issued
once a year, even though it contains notable papers on
important questions.
We must have a periodical of our own, issued
at first quarterly, ably edited, with trenchant articles
by strong men, with departments of news and notes
on all questions of interest in art education. No ex¬
isting magazine is or can become what our cause needs.
No existing periodical will or can do the work that is
incumbent on us to perform. Our own editors must
decide what we will publish and this organization alone
must dictate the policy of our publication.
Ah! but you say, the MONEY!
Since we began the publication of a bulletin worthy
of this association there has been a steadily increas¬
ing demand for this bulletin. Under the able manage¬
ment of our efficient secretary our work has, during
the past year, gone steadily forward. We are but in
the beginning of that which may be accomplished in
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the way of securing subscriptions and adding to mem¬
bership.
Last year we provided for a new class of members
at $10.00 a year. At present we have some sustaining
members. We can have more for the asking. We can¬
not now, of course, pay salaries to editors, writers, or
workers. But this does not disturb me. For during
the past five years your President has for weeks at a
time given from one fourth to one half of his entire
time to carrying on the work of this association.
We have in our membership strong executives, ex¬
perienced publishers, capable editors, and attractive
writers. We have now reached that stage in our de¬
velopment when we can support a periodical.
I therefore recommend that the Association at
this meeting instruct the President and Board of Di¬
rectors to take the necessary steps to publish the Bulle¬
tin as a quarterly during the coming year, with the
purpose of issuing it as a monthly as soon as practi¬
cable.
The Sources of Romanesque Sculpture
by Charles R. Morey
(Presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting, New York,
May 12, 1919.)
BENCH Eomanesque sculpture develops in three pe-
riods : a primitive period corresponding roughly to
the first quarter of the twelfth century; a second phase
marked by baroque exaggeration during which the pre¬
vailing styles are those of Languedoc and Burgundy,
covering the second third of the century ; and lastly
the style of Ile-de-France, which assimilates and refines
the eccentricities of Languedoc and Burgundy, reduces
the figure to a logical harmony with Grothic architec¬
ture, and finally supplants the older styles throughout
the whole of France.
This paper aims to show the influence of manu¬
script illumination on the first two phases of Eoman¬
esque. Such an influence has already been suggested
for the second, or baroque phase, and indeed it is hard¬
ly possible to deny it when one compares such a figure
as the prophet of Souillac (PI. I, fig. 1), a fair example
of the developed style of Languedoc, with the pen draw¬
ings of manuscripts of the eleventh century (PI. I, fig.
2). The contortion of the body, the whirling draperies,
the restless stance, the deep undercutting which pro¬
vides a rhythm of light and shade, together with the
general resemblance of the figure to the angel in the
miniature who locks the gate of Hell — all show a re¬
markable surrender on the part of the sculptor of plas¬
tic values in return for those of line and color. The
same pictorial style is found in the Burgundian work
of Vezelay; here we have sometimes the lyric line of
Languedoc, and sometimes a contrast of broadly hatch¬
ed and lighted surfaces with deep holes of shadow
which produces the effect of a painted miniature.
It seems to me therefore that Mr. A. Kingsley
Porter, who tells us in a recent article on Eomanesque
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sculpture that ‘‘archaeology has been unable to ac¬
count” for this pictorial style in Burgundy and Langue¬
doc, is making mediaeval art more mysterious than
need be. This and other phenomena of mediaeval style
become intelligible when viewed in the light of one fact
that is gradually becoming recognized, viz., that the
guiding influence in the evolution of mediaeval art was
always the manuscript illumination.
The chief alternative theory as to the source of
Romanesque sculpture is that which would derive the
style from ivory carving. The theory has in its favor
that the ivories represent about all we have in the way
of a consistent practice of sculpture in the period pre¬
ceding the twelfth century, and would therefore atford
a natural starting point for the enterprising stone
sculptors of the Romanesque period. But one finds
on investigation that the style of the ivories does not
explain in all respects that of the carvings in stone.
Take for example an early Languedoc work, the
Christ on the choir screen of St. Semin at Toulouse
(PI. II, fig. 3). If we compare this figure with the
Christ of an ivory plaque in the Museum at Orleans
(PI. II, fig. 4), the resemblance of stmcture is indeed
striking; both figures show peculiar, undulating locks
of hair, a grotesque pot-belly, and lack of articulation
between the torso and the legs. There is one thing how¬
ever which the ivory lacks, and it happens that this
one thing is the most characteristic feature of Langue¬
doc sculpture early and late, viz., the double lines
that divide the drapery into a semblance of overlapping
folds. But if we turn to a late Carolingian manuscript
of the school of Tours, we find in the figure of the
evangelist Mark (PI. II, fig. 5) a fair parallel to the
relief of St. Sernin in hair, pot-belly, and unattached
legs; and we also find the essential double lines in the
drapery which mark the technique of the stone sculp¬
tor, as well.
In fact, the more one studies mediaeval ivories,
the more one is struck by their imitative character.
We find in them the reflection, not the genesis of style.
The Carolingian ivories are mostly copies, either of
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late classic works in the same material, or of contempo¬
rary manuscripts. In a plaque at Zurich, (PI. Ill, tig.
6), for example, we find an abbreviated replica of the
illustration of Psalm XXVII as it appears in the Utrecht
Psalter (PI. Ill, fig. 7). The same relation to manu¬
scripts is evident in the later ivory-styles, and while,
of course, we seldom get so close an imitation as in the
case just illustrated, the parallel between the mother
art and the ivory imitations is so close that Gold¬
schmidt in his recent work on the ivories of the ninth
and tenth centuries was able to classify them entirely
on the basis of the manuscript schools whose styles
they follow. The ivories, then, so far from being the
models of the stone sculptors, are better considered
as the coordinate offspring of the mother-art of minia¬
ture painting.
And, really, when one comes to think of what com¬
prised the artistic stock-in-trade of these Romanesque
sculptors, it is clear that their visualizations must have
been determined mostly by the illuminations of the
manuscripts. The number of ivories preserved in the
monasteries of the twelfth century could not have been
large. Ivories are not easily destroyed; and yet how
few are known to antedate the twelfth century! Manu¬
scripts, on the other hand, and illuminated ones at that,
were everywhere at hand; as Beissel says, the smallest
church could not conduct its services with less than
three — a Psalter, a Gospel Book, and a Sacramentary.
It seems to me, therefore, that a derivation of Roman¬
esque sculpture from the manuscript styles is to be
predicated from the general conditions surrounding the
rise of Romanesque art, even if direct proof were not
forthcoming. We have already seen that the figure
style of Languedoc shows the influence of pen-drawing
to an extent that cannot be due to coincidence.
Attention may now be called to the relation of a
certain style of illumination with another phase of
Romanesque sculpture, which appears in France in
early works of Burgundy and the valley of the Loire,
but is best known in its Italian variant, where it goes
under the name of Lombard.
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To make this relation clear, I must first ask you to
consider for a moment the evolution of illumination up
to the twelfth century. In the Carolingian period we
have a number of schools, more or less distinguishable,
but toward its close these various schools begin to
coalesce into two main artistic currents. One of these
is represented by the famous Utrecht Psalter (PI. Ill,
fig. 7), whose illuminator, however much he was in¬
debted to classic models, succeeded in transforming
them to the point of producing something never seen
before. His style, in fact, marks the beginning of
modern art in that it introduces as a prime factor for
the first time that emotional element which distinguishes
the modern from the classic. His pages are swept by
feeling; every figure, even if conceived as standing still,
is yet galvanized into a sort of ecstatic pirouette by
swirling drapery. When movement is represented, the
action becomes violent; the heads are thrust forward
from the shoulders with an earnestness that is gro¬
tesque and yet convincing; even the ground-line heaves
and rolls in the general hurricane of emotion.
This style, centering at first in what we call the
school of Reims, gradually draws into its scope the
other schools of Prance — the Franco-Saxon school, the
school of Tours, and the school of Corbie — losing in
the meantime some of its freedom and casting its ex¬
pressive movement into more conventional moulds. By
the eleventh century it dominates the drawing of France
and England, reaching a high grade of freshness and
originality in the island kingdom, while in France, and
particularly in Northern Prance, we find it more sober¬
ly employed as in a Gospel of the Library at Boulogne
or in the Liber Vitae (PI. I, fig. 2). It always retains,
however, its qualities of expressiveness and of restless
line, and these we have seen that it communicated to
the developed styles of Romanesque sculpture in Lan¬
guedoc and Burgundy.
The other style began in the Carolingian period in
what we call the Ada group of manuscripts, so called
after a putative sister of Charlemagne for whom one
of the manuscripts of the group was written. This
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style, developing under the patronage of a court whose
worship of the late classic was fanatic, not only tries
to reproduce the letter of its models, but makes a
desperate attempt to reach the spirit as well (PI. IV,
fig. 8). The result is that, as time goes on, it swings
away from the linear style of Reims and of the Utrecht
Psalter, and evolves a plastic quality that is not at
all unlike the late classic and proto-Byzantine models
that it strove to imitate. Thus in phases like that illus¬
trated by the Codex Egberti (PI. IV, fig. 9) we find
pictures much resembling proto-Byzantine manuscripts
of the sixth century, and there is always in the style
a lack of movement in figure and drapery, a flatness in
the treatment of planes, a heaviness of proportions,
which contrast sharply with the exuberant calligraphy
of the drawings we have seen in the Utrecht Psalter
(PI. Ill, fig. 7) and its descendants. A definite peculi¬
arity may be found also in the curious flapper-like feet,
on which the figures try to stand.
This style developed in the valley of the Rhine.
Just where its center was in the 9th century we do not
know, but in the tenth it lay in the abbey of Reichenau
on Lake Constance, whence it spread in the course of
the eleventh century throughout the monasteries of
Germany, and also into the Low Countries, where it
met and made some curious mixtures with the linear
style of France and England. In the twelfth century
it followed the route of trade and political relations
from Germany into North Italy, for there can be little
doubt, it seems to me, that in this German style of il¬
lumination we have the source of Lombard sculpture.
Guglielmus, who tells the story of Genesis with such
crude power on the faqade of Modena cathedral (PI.
IV, fig. 10), his pupil Nicholas, and all the rest of the
school down to Benedetto Antellami of the end of the
twelfth century, show in all their work the same heavy
figures, the same flapper feet, the same reserve in move¬
ment, the same formula of drapery, the same adherence
to plane instead of line — in a word, the same plastic
quality that differentiates their work from the sculp-
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ture of Languedoc and Burgundy that inherited the
lyric movement of the linear style of illumination.
The plastic style is not confined to North Italy. It
made its way into Eastern France, and we find it es¬
tablished in Burgundy at a date before the creation
of the linear style of Vezelay. Its best example here
is found in the choir capitals of St. iMartin d’Ainay
at Lyons, which date from the consecration of the
church in 1106. Here we find the same adherence to
plane, and the same crude and heavy figure style, al¬
beit with a certain French accent, which one finds also
in the sculptures of Guglielmus. But as we pass to
the capitals of the nave, evidently by a later hand, we
are already in the presence of the leaf-work, the under¬
cutting, the long faces with drilled pupils, and the gener¬
al coloristic etfect of Vezelay. In this one church, there¬
fore, one can see the passing of the German style and
the entry of the new Burgundian sculpture.
The plastic style extended also down the valley of
the Loire and left examples in many early capitals of
this region, as well as in later examples like those from
Ile-Bouchard. Not much of it is found in France, be¬
cause most of the Romanesque churches received their
decoration- in the middle of the twelfth century, when
the new lyric art of Languedoc and Burgundy had
given more adequate expression to the emotion which
filled the soul of proto-Gothic France. It may be, in
fact, that the rare examples of the style are due to
itinerant Lombard workmen, and that the style was
an importation into France from North Italy. In any
case, its ultimate source seems to me to have been the
miniatures of the Rhine.
To test the accuracy of this derivation, I asked a
graduate student, Mr. Robert O’Connor, to trace the
history of a motif of ornament which happens to be pe¬
culiar to the Romanesque sculpture of the regions just
mentioned, i. e.. North Italy and the valley of the Loire.
Mr. O’Connor’s results will be published shortly, and
I shall here only allude to that portion of his work
which affects our problem. The value of the motif as
a test lies in the fact that for an ornamental motif its
use is unusually circumscribed. It never appears in
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sculpture till the twelfth ceutury, and then only in the
regions mentioned, being absent from the ornamental
alphabet of Normandy, England, and Languedoc, and
j^0Y0j' occurring in the ivories. But in BurgTindy and
the valley of the Loire it is very popular in the twelfth
century, and all the Lombard sculptors use it, both
early and late, and everywhere they go ; found one
example in some Lomhard work in Dalmatia. It is a
variation of the douhle-axe motif sometimes found in
Roman mosaics, and is very obviously not a natural
invention for a stone-carver. Guglielmus uses it as a
convention for water (PI. IV, fig. 10'), but its common¬
est employment is as a decoration for colonnettes, as
is the case at Bourges.
Now when Mr. O’Connor undertook to trace the
ornament hack to its source, the path led him immediate¬
ly into illumination and nowhere else. In illumination,
moreover, the ornament is confined to the Rhenish
style (PI. IV, fig. 8) in the eleventh and tenth centuries,
and he finally found its mediaeval starting point in
the minatures of the Ada-group of manuscripts, where¬
in we found the ultimate source of the Lomhard figure
style.
The sources, then, of the two most important styles
of Romanesque sculpture, the linear style of Burgundy
and Languedoc and the plastic style of the Lombard
school, are to he sought in the two dominant styles of
illumination which these Romanesque sculptors knew,
the one prevailing in France and England, a linear style,
expressive and baroque, the other flourishing in the val¬
ley of the Rhine, and retaining in its self-contained fig¬
ures a remnant of classic form. This is all my note is in¬
tended to convey, save perhaps that it may serve to
show the importance of the study of illumination for
any real understanding of mediaeval styles. Illumina¬
tion is the only art that has a continuous evolution
throughout the Middle Ages; architecture often fails
us, fresco-painting has huge gaps in its history, figure
sculpture in stone is a lost art for whole centuries and
is often sadly to seek in the ivories, but the illuminated
book is always there to bridge the gaps. To paraphrase
a good old Latin tag: ‘Dittera picta manet.”
The Significance of Oriental Art
by Ananda Coomakaswamy
(Presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting, New York,
May 12, 1919.)
I ' HE “influence” of Oriental art on modem Western
art is a potent fact and may be detected alike in
painting and sculpture, mnsic, dancing, costume and
handicraft. This influence has been, for the most part,
pernicious — little more significant than the imitation of
mannerisms in response to a demand for the exotic,
quaint, and mysterious. For those for whom the actual
East is too strong meat, the quasi-Oriental draperies
and pseudo-Oriental dance and the “Chinoiseries” of a
few painters have provided — a new sensation.
Those who look upon the East as mysterious and
romantic have only themselves to thank for the creation
of a novel unreality. Wh.at is romantic and mysterious
to a foreigner is classic and self-evident to a native;
and no one can be said to understand the art of the
East or any other art so long as it remains to him a
curiosity — only when he sees that it must have been as
it is, does he begin to understand. He will see then
that it does not represent a fine accomplishment or
something undertaken for fun, but expresses an entire
mentality and racial inheritance. Through it he may
learn the better to understand the unfamiliar faith,
but how can he through its formulae express himself,
or “stand in his own place in his own day here?”
If Oriental art as a complete and fixed expression
— in truth, a dead language, having received its last
and mortal wounds at the hands of Western industrial¬
ism and diplomacy — has no more value for the artist
than for other men, however great this common im¬
portance (as expressing the heart and mind of the East)
may be, we may proceed to ask what particular signifi¬
cance the late “discovery of Asia” may have for West¬
ern artists. Here we come at once upon the solid ground
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of Asiatic psychology and criticism: for the East is
able to remind ns of many things that are important
in the genesis of art. It is rather the teacher of art
and art appreciation, than the practising artist, who
should study Oriental art — the latter, should he even
visit the Orient in person, will find the living man more
marvellous than any ancient monument.
“The forms of images,” says Sukracharya, an Ind¬
ian critic, “are determined hy the relation that subsists
between adorer and adored.” Although in theological
language, this is a perfectly general statement of how
it is that a work of art assumes just that particular
form it comes to have: the adorer is the artist, the
adored is the theme, the image is the work of art. With¬
out a relation of necessity between the artist and his
theme, there is nothing to express, and consequently,
the result cannot be a work of art. No genuine form
can be created without there having been profound
reasons for its existence: style is determined by what
we have to say and not by arbitrary or fanciful choice.
I do not condescend to discuss the opportunity that
still remains for illustration. In the common case the
artist has nothing to say ; I take it for granted that the
distinction between illustration and expression needs no
emphasis.
The essential problem of the artist is to see or hear
the form of his intuition sufficiently clearly : as Blake
expresses it, “He who does not imagine in stronger and
better lineaments, and in stronger and better light, than
his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at
all!” In genuine art, whether visionary or realistic,
there is nothing vague or indefinite — “the want of this
determinate and bounding form evidences the idea of
want in the artist’s mind, and the pretence of plagiary
in all its branches.” In Western schools of art the
teaching is directed solely to the acquisition of manual
skill, and yet we aU know that the art of a modern,
while it is not necessarily inferior to that of a Giotto,
is not necessarily superior merely because of the knowl¬
edge of perspective and anatomy it reveals. No manual
dexterity or analytical knowledge can compensate for
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19
the original deficiency of visualization. And it is pre¬
cisely in the cultivation of this power — partly as the
result of the practise of drawing always from stored
memories rather than from still life (the posed model,
from this point of view, is hut little superior to the
plaster cast), but still more from the regular practise
of visualization, alike in the private practise of religion
and in the artist’s preparation for any work he may
undertake — that the East, and particularly India, has
something of importance for Western artists. To put
the idea very simply, the true work of creation must be
completed before the brush or pen is put to paper; and
what is of most importance from every point of view
is the reality of the original creation. If this is to be
vital, the artist must be preoccupied, saturated with,
or, as we should say in India, identified with, his sub¬
ject; and if not so it will not be worth while for him
to take up his tools. In schools of art, from the very
beginning, at least as much time should be devoted to
drawing from imagination or memory as to studying
forms objectively present. At present, almost all chil¬
dren possess a greater or less degree of creative imagi¬
nation, which is destroyed as soon as they are taught
that it is more important to draw accurately than to
draw expressively. The training in accuracy, however
necessary, should be patently subordinated to the culti¬
vation of imagination (I speak, let me say again, al¬
ways of art, and not of illustration). Moreover, the
meaning of ‘‘accuracy” for an artist should be care¬
fully explained : Leonardo very wisely remarks that that
drawing is best which best expresses the passion that
animates a figure ; and as we have learnt anew through
the courage of infinitely serious modern artists like
Cezanne — a far more significant figure than any living
painter east of Suez — the expression of dominant ideas
may often demand an exaggeration or distortion of
normal form. That this should be so is a psychological
necessity, for every movement of the spirit has a corre¬
sponding physical gesture and for every emotion there
must be set up a corresponding strain in the phj'sical
vehicle. Strains of this kind are not so simply to be
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expressed as in merely muscular reaction. There are
many drawings demonstrably “incorrect” which could
not be “better drawn.” That even teachers of art con¬
cur in this view is demonstrated by their respect for
old masters ; it is not commonly held that the paintings
of Giotto or the Ajanta frescoes could be advantageous¬
ly corrected. The theory of progress in art has long
been exploded.
Let us turn in conclusion to quite another aspect
of art, that of patronage. We may consider separately,
although no hard and fast lines can be drawn, the
patronage of the public in general, direct or indirect,
and that of the rich or powerful individual such as a
king or millionaire, or, if the days of such are to be re¬
garded as numbered, that of the dominant individual
to whom equality of opportunity has given the power
that should rightly be his.
Under the most ideal conditions, the public does not
exercise a choice about the sort of art it gets. A com¬
munity with a living soul accepts the intuitions of that
consciousness, as they are expressed by those who hap¬
pen to be functioning artists, without demur. This is
actually folk art, and the solid foundation of everything
else. In the most fortunate periods, the taste of the
folk and of persons in power is identical, a situation
typically illustrated in mediaeval Europe and Hindu
India. But for this there is needed not only a com¬
munity of taste, but a living tradition ; and for the in¬
heritance of a tradition, there must be some kind of
social equilibrium. Equally, for the maintenance of
standards of craftsmanship, no less than for the finest
quality of work in any other field, the artist must not
be under the stern necessity of selling himself or his
work to avoid starvation; he must not be subject to
exploitation, nor bound to consult the taste of unculti¬
vated individuals or audiences. Nor should there be
any hard and fast line drawn between the artist and
the artisan, art and industry. Under Oriental condi¬
tions, all these circumstances of security and status
were provided for, either by the landed endowment of
hereditary artists’ families, a combination of agricultur-
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al and aesthetic activity within the same family, the at¬
tachment of hereditary artists to religious foundations,
the maintenance of royal workshops at every court, or
the association of similarly functioning individuals in
guilds or castes. In other words, a community pre¬
tending to cultivation and not merely preoccupied, as
one finds to be the case in a city like this, with a merely
barbaric struggle for existence, inevitably recognized
its responsibility to artists, as to all other workmen, in
some formal way, by according to them an inalienable
status. The idea would not have occurred to anyone in
the East to leave the artist to starve in time of war,
on the ground that his activity is supposedly unpracti¬
cal ; in the case of conquest, the artists themselves might
become a part of the spoils of war, but their status and
activity would not be changed. Political disturbances
in ancient times did not so much interfere with art as
do the normal conditions of society now. In other
words, whereas in industrial societies the artist occupies
only the precarious position of a parasite, in Eastern
countries, as in mediaeval Europe, he had a definite
place in the social order.
Neither the existence of museums nor of individual
rich collectors can be said to prove a love of art in
modern society. Necessary as they may be, the very
necessity for museums goes far to prove the absence of
a genuine artistic activity in the community; for they
exist to preserve such things as were once but' common
articles of co'mmerce. The great museum cannot be
regarded as a compensation for civic and sectional
squalor. On the other hand, the great collector cannot
be regarded as a patron of art, in many cases not even
as a lover of art. In ages of genuine patronage, the
powerful patron lent protection and support to living
artists ; and had this not been the case, those works
which we now collect and preserve, and which command
such extravagant prices, would never have come into
existence. What counts is not the purchase of stray
works of art by museums or collectors, but the oppor¬
tunity provided for continuous and consistent work,
having public rather than private application. The
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artist responds to the demand — the more that is asked
of him, the more he has to give. If he gives compar¬
atively little today, it is becanse we are content with so
little. To sum up what has been last said, a great part
of the significance of Oriental art is to he read in the
relation of art to life in Eastern societies.
Camouflage and Art
by Homer Saint Gaudens
(Presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting, New York,
May 13, 1919.)
/^AMOUFLAGrE in the American Army in Prance de-
^ pended far more on ingenuity than on art ; though
if the ingenuity had not been based on principles ac¬
quired in the study of art, chaos must have resulted
from our efforts.
Unfortunately, we were stamped at the outset as
'‘‘Camouflage Artists” and as "Camouflage Artists”
we were expected, in our initial work to be able to pro¬
duce endless yards of magic veil under which everyone
from general to private could hide both himself and
his luggage, however fat.
Our merits were established or demolished on
the basis of the story of the railroad tracks. All mili¬
tary men had heard about those railroad tracks that had
been painted in perspective on a wooden screen and set
up across the true rails where they ran between a
station and storehouse so that the traffic on the street
crossing the track behind the screen could be carried
on unbeknownst to the Germans. Unfortunately when
I saw that screen at Pont-a-Mousson it had been weath¬
er-beaten by a couple of years exposure to the consist¬
ency and color of an abandoned freight car. Yet the
traffic behind it passed by unmolested. I doubt whether,
even when new, the device deceived the Germans for
one single day. It faced due North and so threw a
strong shadow. Owing to the buildings the light on it
must have varied in the morning and the afternoon.
Moreover, the first time German aeroplane information
of the traffic there was compared with German balloon
reports, the discrepancy must have led ito investigation.
As a consequence of just such Sunday Supplement
edification, the army was one-third credulous and two-
thirds skeptical of our value. The faithful understood
that if we painted the bottom of a potato white and
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graded it up to brown on top, they could not see it on
the road. Therefore we were wizards who could hide
them in any emergency. The skeptical decided, as the
literal translation of our French name implied, that we
were fakirs and would have none of us.
The result was the same from either attitude.
Other armies, allied or enemy, might develop their
schemes of scientific murder with a businesslike mili¬
tary policy of obtaining the best results at the least
expenditure of lives or property. But the nephews of
Uncle Sam, firm in the belief that invisibility was eith¬
er wafted to them by us as friendly genii or not ob¬
tainable at any price, advanced with a care-free en¬
thusiasm that is still manifesting itself in the casualty
reports. Only toward the end of the war did we reach
a position where we could convince the authorities that,
without proper camouflage discipline, the material v/ork
of the Camouflage Section must inevitably fail to balance
the foolish mistakes made through indifference to cam¬
ouflage needs; that, for example, it profits little to con¬
ceal guns themselves, when ammunition trains needlessly
remain parked in the open, during the daylight hours,
directly behind these guns — as I remember they did in a
gully on the side of the 'Mort Homme just before the
Verdun- Argonne attack of about September twenty-
seventh.
In my own personal experience this condition of in¬
difference rose to its climax at the time we reached Death
, Valley, a few kilometers south of St. Giles on the Vesle.
There I found assembled two regiments of 75 ’s, one
regiment of 155 mm. howitzers and one regiment of 155
mm. longs — ninety-six guns in all — ^which were blazing
away in a truly sunny France with what camouflage
they possessed hung over them like mushrooms, and
about them their picketed horses, their ammunition cais¬
sons, their latrines, their kitchens, their pup-tents, and
the freshly turned earth of their dugouts, forming a
raw and awful litter. They needed only to have a bat¬
talion of engineers building a bridge by them in the
open and a quantity of infantry held near in reserve,
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25
to present to the Grermans such a target as they had
not been offered in years.
Lieutenant Thrasher, one of onr best officers, who
was killed there a few days later, while he was attempt¬
ing to clean up that Augean Stable, was in a pitiable
state of mind over it. Well he might he. When the Hun
had got his own artillery into his well reconnoitered
position and had finished his work, the place was a
shambles, with not a battery remaining in its original
location.
It must he obvious from this that our task required
a much wider scope than that of applying the theories
of protective coloration of animals to men who stumbled
around by day and night, in rain and mud or dust and
hot sun, as the season allotted, generally without food
and frequently in gas-masks, driven by the agonizing de¬
mands of present-day fighting to a point where the
thought of getting hit was regarded with more or less
relief.
In our development which altered very much with
the broadening of our scope, we set out guided largely
by French principles. This was natural, as the French,
with their good-humor and insight, helped generously
when help was asked, kept out of the way when not
wanted, encouraged us in our successes, and remained
silent over our failures. The English, however, had al¬
so received an excellent reputation for rough-and-tumble
results. Therefore, we sought to combine the good
qualities of the two. But we soon found out what the
rest of the army was discovering with equal speed,
namely, that we could not adopt wholesale the extraneous
methods of others and apply them with success to our
own eccentricities, especially at the very moment when
warfare was changing from trench to field.
Throughout all our operations, we attempted, at
the front, to have a lieutenant in charge of the work of
each division, a captain in charge of the work of each
corps and a major or a captain in charge of the work of
each army. From all these officers there was required
more responsibility and initiative than was expected
in the same grades in other branches of the service.
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They not only had to meet the eccentricities of paper¬
work and to control the men under them with the uni¬
versal ability and responsibility, hut they also had to
know the photographic values, the textures, and the
characteristics of materials required, and the best means
of adapting them to the natural aspects of the area in
which they operated. They had to learn how to approach
superior officers to obtain what they wanted in time
of stress. They had to maintain their initiative and
ingenuity.
Our best officers were architects. They not only
understood the principles of form and color, but they
had been faced with clients who would have the linen-
closet, the stairs, and the chimney all in the same place.
Long pestered with the practical side of life, they
tempered their art to a line of brass tacks.
For our non-commissioned officers and privates,
the moving-picture and stage-property men and carpen¬
ters were, by all odds, the most successful. An abil¬
ity to handle those superior in rank and a resource¬
fulness at all hours was theirs.
Camouflage, as we found it, had two functions, to
deceive the eye and to deceive the aeroplane cameras.
Concealment from the eye was concealment from enemy
observation posts and balloons. Except in the case of
actual movement, or very large objects, aeroplane ob¬
servation was photographic. Concealment from the eye
was accomplished by imitating something else, that is,
by making an observation post look like a coil of wire,
or by disguising an object so it was not seen at all or
looked like nothing in particular. Most front line work
came in this category, and consisted merely of a clever
manipulation of the surroundings. Eoad-screening, by
the way, which has often been spoken of in this con¬
nection, was not concealment at all. Nothing was ever
stretched over the top of a road. From an engineering
point of view that would have been wholly impractical.
Nor did the screens along the sides conceal the road.
The road was on the map. It could be inspected by en¬
emy aeroplanes, and it was by the map that the artil¬
lery shot. The good that road-screening did was to pre-
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27
vent the enemy from estimating from his observa¬
tion balloons the nature and the amount of traffic on
1;hose roads, and, therefore, the troops that those
roads fed.
Concealment from aeroplane observation was more
difficult, for the camera was more accurate than the eye.
Objects to be so concealed were such as batteries, small
tracks or paths, trenches, and dumps. In hiding these
we were often unsuccessful because we could rarely
show our army the proof of the pudding. Officers could
see what they could see, hut without photographs they
could not see what the camera saw, and the Photo-
grai3hic Section of the Aviation Corps did not produce
results until too late.
However, we inspected and preached until our lungs
and our legs wore sore. We explained that an individ¬
ual object of any reasonable size, like a motor truck
or a machine-gun position is invisible on the normal
aeroplane photograph, taken at 2,000 meters. It is the
recognizable repetition of this object, or its position in
relation to its surroundings, or the signs of occupation
about it, like paths or dust, that betray the object. A
photograph cannot show a trench mortar with a man or
two about it. But it can show the characteristic mark
of the mortar’s emplacement in the trench, or the
peculiar nature of the disturbance when, even with
all the care in the world, soldiers attempt to set a ma¬
chine-gun up in a wheatfield — as I remember they did
out in front of the Bois de Belleau. A photograph
cannot show a field-gun, but if four of them (a battery)
have been in action, it can distinctly show the paths
leading up to them, and ammunition boxes and dug-up
earth, and the four white, evenly placed scars, made
by their blast marks where the grass has been burnt
flat before them.
Photographs show patterns of black and white com¬
posed of color, form, shadow, and texture.
Color proved to be of relatively small importance.
But color meant paint, and, as painters, we were asked
to render invisible everything from a motor truck to
division headquarters. Most of it could not be done.
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Is the amorphousness of this motor truck to be accom¬
plished under a tree, or out by a wheat field? Trucks
do move. Also they get covered with mud and dirt.
As for headquarters, one side will shine in the morning
sun and another in the afternoon light. Moreover, a
building throws a shadow. Its shadow bears an abso¬
lute relation to its form. The shadows vary during the
day. The time the photograph is taken is recorded;
thus, by measuring the shadow the outline of the object
that caused it is obtainable.
Texture, too, offered a difficult problem, one that the
layman was rarely able to understand. A favorite il¬
lustration was the silk hat, light when smoothed the
right way, and dark when brushed the wrong. Loose
dirt and fresh grass photograph dark, like the silk hat
rubbed the wrong way. But once the army brogan has
been planted on this dirt or grass, the opposite effect
is obtained. The trampled gun-position would register
on the photograph, like a white bulls-eye on a black tar¬
get.
To help blur these shadows, forms, and textures into
the surroundings we developed our camouflage material.
It was composed of various sorts of dull-colored cloth,
cut into dangling strips, tied to chicken-wire or fish¬
nets in such a manner as to give the needed variation
of light and shade. In broken country with such ma¬
terial it was easy to take advantage of existing forms
and shadows and imitate them or to create fantastic
shapes that meant nothing. In flat country an overhead
cover that matched the landscape was needed. These were
called flat-tops and were made mostly of fish-net or
chicken-wire, thirty or forty feet square, stretched hori¬
zontally, on which were tied these same bunches of
burlaps to produce a texture like their surroundings.
The material would be thick in the centre over the
object to be hidden. It would thin out at the sides so
as to blur the spot into the surroundings, as a girl
blends rouge into her face.
Even when these nets were put to their proper use,
aeroplane photographs which our Aviation Section took
for us after the war was over, on an experimental field
The Aet BuliiEThst.
29
near Toul, proved them to be futile unless set up in
broken or mottled country. But never did mediaeval
conjurer have any more popular form of self -hypnotism.
I even remember under one such net, a white horse,
hauling ammunition over a new and glaring trail be¬
tween the road and a battery position near the Vesle.
Anyhow, it kept the flies off him.
To counteract our inability to wave successfully the
wand of invisibility, we constantly broadened pur ef¬
forts in another direction, not fully recognized until
near the end of the war. This was in the matter of
reconnaissance. For example, in the search for battery
or machine-gun or trench-mortar positions, the camou¬
flage officer could give his greatest assistance, since,
within the limitations imposed by the tactical require¬
ments of the case, he could best point out where advan¬
tage could be taken of the broken nature of the land¬
scape.
The proportionate importance of the various branches
of camouflage work developed, therefore, into approxi¬
mately these amounts: —
Selecting positions that can be camouflaged, fifty
percent.
Strict camouflage discipline, twenty percent.
Proper erection of material, fifteen percent.
Proper material, fifteen percent.
On occasions we grew sadly discouraged. But when
anyone is close to a large object it is only the discourag¬
ing details that are seen.
We did accomplish, and we did develop. We started
as the painters of a new brand of scenery. Before the
war closed army and corps and division headquarters,
all reached a point where they became quite peevish if
our little section could not be in all places at once.
On October thirtieth Lieutenant Colonel Bennion,
in change of the Camouflage Section, came to me at
Toul, where I had charge of the work of the Second
Army, and informed me that from that time on our
scope and size would broaden rapidly. Our efforts would
be called ^ ‘ counter intelligence work, ’ ’ that is, preventing
the Germans from obtaining information as to our move¬
ments, or the disposition of our troops or materials. We
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would make recommendations at all times regarding
breaches of secrecy and violations of discipline. We
would be held responsible for the g'eneral insurance
of the secrecy of army troops.
That, it may be seen, was a large order, scarcely
one in which art bore a predominating part, yet quite
illustrative of the manner in which the Camouflage
Section had drifted away from the province originally
assigned to it. In war as in life, nothing is stationary.
You must advance or retire. Our other choice would
have been to sink back into a mottled ‘^embusche”
shadow, to paint on trucks and guns fantastic patterns
that we knew from experience were useless, to oblit¬
erate one small point of relatively minor importance
while miles of equipment and millions of mud-stained
men passed us by to take their chances regardless.
I am glad that we were given the opportunity to ad¬
vance. It was a blow to art. But I fancy art still has a
few compensations left.
The Necessity of Developing the Scientific
and Technical Bases of Art
by Edwin M. Biake
(Presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting, New York,
May 12, 1919.)
T F one whose chief work has been the study and teach-
ing of mathematics and some of its applications to
engineering may venture an opinion on certain matters
connected with art, I should like to give some reasons
for the necessity of developing its scientific and techni¬
cal bases, and offer a suggestion for procedure along
that line.
Among the things which impress one in the general
situation at the present time are that the winning of
the war was largely the result of cooperation and
original investigation, and that the lessons gained in
the war should not be lost to the future. Cooperation
occurred between the governments involved, between the
individuals of the several nationalties, and between the
members of trades and professions which had seemed
far removed in their interests. Reports tell of no end
of original investigations directed toward the solution
of specific problems with a not inconsiderable grist
of discoveries and inventions ranging from the ‘‘Liberty
Motor’’ to the most terrible of toxic gases. We are
entering a period in which political Europe will be re¬
modeled, and in which social and economic conditions
not only there but also with us may be considerably
changed. The war has served to make us aware that
we were dependent on outside sources for many very
essential material things which we should as far as
possible produce ourselves. Some, like the coal-tar
dyes and medicinals, optical glass and table china, are
within our ability to supply if only effort is directed
toward the result; and such effort is being made with
constantly gaining strength. The lack of other materials,
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such as platinum, tin, and potash, not thus far dis¬
covered in sufficient quantity in the United States, pre¬
vents our complete economic independence; hut even
here the collection of all available supplies, the elimi¬
nation of waste, and the use of substitutes when
possible, has served to ameliorate the scarcity.
It would seem that art in its field should not be
oblivious to the lessons indicated — the desirability of
cooperation, the value of scientific investigation, and
the necessity of striving for independence. To be sure,
many papers have of late discussed the new conditions.
It is proposed to have artist’s materials manufactured
in this country. The National Association of Decorative
Arts and Industries has been organized. And there are
calls for better art education and for better designs
for our art products. All these are very encouraging
signs. Are, however, all aids being developed?
Perhaps they are; but one misses any very specific
reference to some of them: the scientific and technical
bases of art, especially the former. It is as if we had
schools for the teaching of chemistry, museums filled
with samples and apparatus of historic interest, means
for manufacturing chemical products, a sales depart¬
ment for handling the output, and a well organized
bureau of propaganda for making the products
popular with the masses, but lacked just one thing
— any provision for the study of chemistry itself,
for attacking those theoretical problems which would
ultimately lead to better manufacturing miethods,
greater diversity of products, more useful fields of
application for them, and gradual change in the
subjects of school instruction. Any one can readily
ascertain that chemistry does not lack this one essential,
but that its workers are constantly clamoring for and
providing still greater facilities for research.
It would, of course, be unjust to affirm that the
art interests in this country are entirely oblivious to
the study of its underlying theoretical problems, but
it impresses one that a great deal more might be done,
and with no little benefit to all other phases of art
development.
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33
In speaking of art I have in mind the visual fine
and decorative arts, that is, those which make their
appeal through the eye and which do not involve the use
of language — that is, excluding literature, poetry, the
drama, and music. The visual fine and decorative
arts are capable of further classification into static,
that is, drawing, painting, etching, modeling and sculp¬
ture ; and kinematic, including art dancing, color music,
and analogous arts. The problems connected with the
visual static arts may conveniently be grouped about
the following four topics: —
FIRST. The materials and methods of artistic
fabrication. This would include the chemistry and
physical properties of dyes and pigments (especially
their fastness to light), the procedure of laying paint
on canvas, the various processes of the craftsman,
and the operations in commercial manufacture, also
questions relating to the preservation and restoration of
works of art.
SECOND. The motives used in design and the
procedures of composition. This includes the sources
of motives used in designs: naturalistic motives from
plant and animal life, from man and structures reared
by him, from his history and social relations, and
abstract motives furnished by geometry.
THIRD. The psychology of art creation and
appreciation. The questions arising here of what art
is, how created, why enjoyed, whether beauty has ab¬
solute standards or is relative to time, place, and the
individual, are, we believe, among the most difficult,
the most important, and least considered in connection
with art.
FOURTH. Social and economic relations of art.
Under this heading would come questions relative to the
training of art workers, to the spread of knowledge
and appreciation of art, to the organization of art
industries and sale of their products. Here might be
grouped also questions concerning the history of art.
Of course no one of these four topics can be
sharply separated from the others, nor can problems
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under one be solved withont considering the effects on
tbe others.
Turning now to the kinematic visual arts, I pass
over art dancing to say a word on color music and
analogous arts — ^that is, those which would involve the
showing of geometric plane or space figures in motion.
The questions involved in their study might he grouped
under four topics, in much the same manner as those
given above, but with some important modifications.
Under the first topic would have to be included appara¬
tus for the performance of compositions, kinematic com¬
positions being in this respect analogous to music.
Under motives would have to be included temporal
sequences or rhythms, similar to those of music, and
the psychology of composition and appreciation must
take into account the elements of time, motion, and
rhythm.
The present paper would urge the advisability of
studying for the static arts: the problems of physics
and chemistry coming under the first topic, the abstract
motives of design which geometry may be able to
suggest, and, above all, the psychological questions
which fall under the third topic. The scientific con¬
sideration of color music and the possible arts of
mobile abstract form, is at present of little practical
importance since these have been scarcely more than
suggested. However, such studies might serve to show
the conditions under which such arts might be developed
and the limitations to which they are of necessity
subject, and thus lead the way to their earlier introduc¬
tion — were indications of their possible success forth¬
coming.
Assuming, then, that there are important questions,
such as those suggested above, which merit careful in¬
vestigation by scientific methods, are the investigations
being carried forward by proper methods and with suffi¬
cient activity? We think not, one difficulty being that
there is no society in the country devoted to the study
of the scientific foundations of art, though it would seem
that the College Art Association might add this to its
ether fields of usefulness.
The Art Btjhletih.
35
To be sure, the Association was established pri¬
marily for furthering the teaching of art, but what
can be more conducive to efficient and forceful in¬
struction than the placing of art as far as possible on a
rational basis'? Further, what body of men and women
engaged in art work in the United States is in as close
touch with the leaders of science as the members of
the College Art Association, who number among their
friends and colleagues the great majority of the scien¬
tific thinkers and investigators of the country?
And this last is by no means an unimportant con¬
sideration, for it would seem to afford an opportunity
for attaining a very essential end — cooperation between
college art teachers and scientists. Hearty cooperation
between interested workers in the two fields could hardly
fail to lead to a clearer statement of fundamental prob¬
lems and to a concentration of effort towards their
solution. And no country in the world is, perhaps,
better fitted to attain a high place in these matters than
our own, were the necessary organization provided and
interest aroused. We are among the leaders in psy¬
chology, physics, and geometry, and the stimulus to
chemistry since the beginning of tlie war has carried
us far. Unfortunately, little of this science has been
directed to the service of art, though it should be if
we are to attain success. We call in the physician to
regulate our diet, the lawyer to solve our legal prob¬
lems, the plumber to repair a frozen water pipe, and
why not the chemist, the physicist, and the psychologist
to help with the chemistry of pigments, the theory of
color, or the study of the mental processes following
vision?
In place of cooperation what do we find? Well,
as the writer sees it — confining the attention to psy¬
chology, which may serve as an index to the whole —
we have on the one hand the American Journal of
Psychology, the Biritish Journal of Psychology, and
other like publications— in the English language and
available in our libraries — publishing each year a few
papers describing investigations bearing on the psy¬
chology of art. On the side of art we have the
36 The Coleege Aet Association of Ajvieeica.
Studio, and like journals, and now and again a book
which discuss matters of art theory, but usually in
a vague and untechnical manner; that is, the language
used fails to convey clear and unequivocal meaning,
the arguments lack definite conclusiveness, and wide
■generalizations are affirmed on insufficient evidence.
Now, each of these two kinds of publications goes its
way ignoring the existence of the other. It would
seem that the editors of journals of psychology do not
find the theories of writers on art very illuminating
and perhaps the latter may find the papers of the
phychologist dull reading— if in fact they ever hear of
them.
The speaker is a firm believer in the necessity of
thorough preparation for the solution of scientific and
technical problems. Once in a long while a man may
make an important discovery in a subject he is little
acquainted with, but these cases are the rare exceptions.
Prof. Ames of Johns Hopldns University has recently
expressed this idea as follows. “One government
board with whose activity I am familiar has had sub¬
mitted to it in the course of the year 16,000 projects
and devices proposed by so-called inventors ; of these
only five had sufficient value to deserve encouragement. ’ ’
“The point I wish to emphasize is that the ability and
knowledge required in waging this war successfully are
not those possessed by anybody of men except those with
a profound knowledge of science and of scientific
method. The problems are too complicated.” (Science,
October 25, 1918, p. 403.) Also, lest it be claimed that
science and scientific methods, thoqgh very essential to
science, do not apply to research in other lines, such
as ethics and religion, art and aesthetics, let me quote
Prof. Lewis of the University of California. “Eeligion
may and should inculcate righteous righteous zeal, but
this impulse alone, no matter how intense and sincere
it may be, does not necessarily enable us to distinguish
between right and wrong, and may even make us the
more zealous in wrong-doing. To make an ethical
decision we must see all the relations of the subject to
ourselves and our fellow men, and see them disinter-
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37
estedly, without prejudice and without regard to authority
and tradition. This is a mental attitude which is es¬
sentially scientific and which is consistently developed
by scientific studies alone.” (Scientific Monthly, Novem¬
ber, 1918, p. 438.)
Applying the above to art we see no good reason for
assuming that, because a man has become a great
painter of landscapes, or has achieved distinction as
a craftsman in silver, or has successfully guided in¬
numerable classes through the mazes of the history of
painting, he is of necessity a great authority on the
physics of light and color, or the psychological princi¬
ples underlying art appreciation. In cooperation with
the scientist, however, the trained eye of the painter,
the subtle taste of the critic, the clear memory of the
museum worker stocked with innumerable art forms,
and the deep knowledge of the rise and decay of cul¬
tures possessed by the authority on history, are invalu¬
able as furnishing the concrete material with which to
make experimental investigations.
The justification of the principles and procedures
of art, as far as may be possible, by the results of care¬
fully conducted and impartially interpreted experiments,
should have the effect of arousing and maintaining an
interest for art among the more conservative, intelli¬
gent, and rational part of the population, as against the
impulsive, the emotional, the mystic, and the neurotic ;
not that emotion of the proper kind would thereby be
excluded from art, since expressiveness stimulative of
emotion is its very foundation, but that the emotions
induced by objects of art would rest on a more secure,
reasoned, and intellectual basis. And we believe that
thus our art production and criticism would be more
able to advance against foreign competition and with¬
stand the worst manifestations and tendencies of domes¬
tic production.
Were it decided to attempt to gain the cooperation
of scientists and technologists in the study of art
problems the College Art Association might include in
its programs: — •
FIRST. Summaries of those applications which
38 The College Aet Association of Ameeioa.
science has already made to art, such as the theory of
color vision, vegetable and chemical dyes and pigments,
or some of the scientific aspects of ceramics.
SECOND. Reports and discussions of recent scien¬
tific investigations which appear to have a bearing on
art problems, such as ‘'Experiments on a Possible Test
of Aesthetic Judgment of Pictures” on the basis of
a paper with this title in the American Journal of
Psychology, July, 1918. It would undoubtedly add to the
interest of these reports and discussions, and the sum¬
maries above mentioned, if in part, at least, they came
from some of our scientific friends.
THIRD. Digests, reviews, and criticisms of cur¬
rent scientific, technical, and art literature which treat
of fundamental problems. This might be made a fea¬
ture of the Bulletin, and thus do for art what is being
done for so many other lines, and on which so much
of the possibility of coordination of effort depends.
REVIEWS
The Metkopolitan Museum; of Art. Handbook op the Classical
Collection.
By Gisela M. A. RicMer.
Pp. xxxiv, 276; 159 illustrations. Metropolitan Museum, 1918.
HIS is a beautifully printed and ideal handbook
issued at the time of the opening of the new Class¬
ical Wing, which was an event of great importance for
classical art in America. The Introduction gives a
history of the collection and its present arrangement
and an excellent short appreciation of Greek art, ex¬
plaining why Greek art is even today worthy of the
most detailed study. Not only for historical reasons
is Greek art important but because the Greeks achieved
perfection, and the study of the evolution of art from
its primitive origins is an artistic training of the first
order. The Greek conception of beauty is one we need
today. “The calm remoteness which distinguishes
their best works is in such contrast to the restlessness
of modern life that it affects us like the quiet of a
cathedral after the bustle and confusion of the streets.”
Greek art is furthermore human and direct.
The bibliography is well selected, though among the
general works we miss Fowler- Wheeler’s Handbook of
Greek Archaeology; on Prehellenic Greece, Hogarth’s
excellent article on Aegean Eeligion in Hastings’ Dic¬
tionary of Religion and Ethics, and Tsountas’ modern
Greek book on Dimini and Sesklo; on architecture,
Choisy’s Histoire de. V Architecture ; on sculpture, the
American edition of Hekler’s Greek and Roman Por¬
traits, Mrs. Strong’s Apotheosis and After Life; on
vases, the 1916 reprint of Miss Kahnweiler’s translation
of Pottier; on painting, Rodenwaldt, Die Kom/position
der Pompejamschen Wandgemdlde. Most of the impor¬
tant catalogues are cited, but why mentimi Mendel’s
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catalogue of terra-cotta figurines at Constantinople and
not his very important Catalogue des Sculptures.
The description of the First Room gives an ex¬
cellent account of prehistoric Greece and the three
^Minoan periods, except for the omission of the impor¬
tant Minoan bronze statuettes. Karo’s restoration of
the steatite vase on p. 15 would give a better idea of
the original shape. The ivory figures from Knossos are
bull acrobats rather than divers (p.l6). In the fresco
on p. 23, the bull is not about to toss a girl toreador
caught on its horns but the girl is, rather, doing some
acrobatic stunt, holding on to the bull’s horns.
The Second Room is devoted to the early Greek
period. On p. 43 we read that this epoch produced no
monumental architecture or sculpture, but what of the
Argive and Oljrmpian temples of Hera? It is interesting
to see reproduced some of the Lydian vases from the
American excavations at Sardis (pp.51-53). The beauti¬
ful Etruscan gold fibula (p. 57) is now well published
by Curtis in the Memoirs of the American Academy,
p. 84 and pi. 18.
The Third Room is given over to the archaic
period and has the famous Etruscan bronze chariot.
In this connection, it might be said that an archaic Italic
war chariot made for use and not for ceremonial pur¬
poses was found a few years ago at Fabriano in Umbria
and is now in the Museum at Ancona. Many other
bronzes, vases of terra-cotta and glass, gems, and
jewelry are also found in this room. The Fourth Room
contains objects of the first half, and the Fifth Room
objects of the second half of the fifth century B. C. On
p. 105 the inscription of Hegesiboulos is wrongly given,
the lambda and gamima being interchanged. The illus¬
tration on p. 104 is also wrong in this respect. On
p. 122 ‘‘Antiokos” read Antiochos.” The Sixth Room
has objects of the fourth century. On p. 132 the battle
of Leuctra is dated 3179 B. C. instead of 371.
The Seventh Room is devoted to the Hellenistic
period. Fig. 99 is not exactly in the attitude of the
Knidian Aphrodite (p. 160). The Eight and Ninth
Rooms are devoted to the Roman Imperial period. The
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Central Hall has Greek and Eoman Sculptnres. On p.
221 for ‘Paianiea” read ‘‘Paiania” and on p. 222 the
first in the Greek name of ‘ ‘ Lysistrate ” should he
“Y” and ‘Gan” should be “tau.” On p. 224 the group
of Eirene and Plutos by Cephisodotos (of the child there
is a copy also in Dresden) is said to have been referred
to by Pausanias as on the Areopagus. Pausanias does
not say this, hut it very likely stood somewhere near the
Areopagus.
The text gives the essential information and is
sound-minded and interesting, and the arrangement of
the various kinds of art by periods and not by material
is well carried out and an important innovation. The
hook is printed in the best style on beautiful paper and
with excellent illustrations. Miss Eichter in this hand¬
book, as in her catalogue of the bronzes, has set a high
standard for museum catalogues and has shown that
America can produce as good catalogues as the European
museums.
David M. Eohinson.
Attic Red-figuked Vases in American Museums.
By J. D. B'eazley.
Pp. X, 236; 132 illustrations. Harvard University Press, 1918. $7.00.
I^IISrCEt 1910, when J. D. Beazley of Christ Church.
College, Oxford, published his comprehensive and
illuminating article on Kleophrades in the Journal of
Hellenic Studies, it is safe to say that no student of
Greek ceramics has done more along the lines of the
identification of unsigned vases than he. Consequently,
his book on Attic Bed-figured Vases in American
Museums has been eagerly awaited by the archaeologists
with the feeling that this work would prove to be an
even greater contribution to the study than his previous
articles.
Beazley ’s methods have been looked at askance by
many of the older scholars (Percy Gardner, for in¬
stance), though any one who is thoroughly conversant
with them would be puzzled to say just why. His
previous work has shown very conclusively that he
possesses an unequalled eye for stylistic details, an
extraordinary familiarity with his material at first
hand and a keen sense of aesthetic values. The average
scholar is all too prone to forget that his identifications
are almost invariably based on a study of the original
vases, not plates or photographs, and it is doubtful
whether any other living archaeologist possesses a wider
acquaintance with the material than he. Also, it is unfair
to judge the soundness of his attributions by a study of
only one or two examples. Very frequently two vases
assigned by him to the same hand appear at first sight
to have little resemblance to each other, but when all
the attributions are studied carefully (preferably from
photographs or tracings in default of the originals) the
stylistic progressions may be clearly seen and the re¬
semblances become positively startling. It ought also to
be recognized that practically similar results have been
secured by other scholars independently and sinuultane-
ously. P'rickenhaus in his Lenaeenvasen attributes al-
(42)
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most all the same vases to one hand that Beazley gives
to the Villa Giulia master; with a few exceptions,
both Miss Swindler and Beazley agree on the works
of the Penthesilea Painter and more recently Bnschor
in the Jahrhuch for 1916 has reached substantially the
same conclusion as Beazley with regard to some Douris
vases, though Beazley detaches them and calls their
author the Louvre G 187 Painter. Surely this is suf¬
ficient justification of the soundness of his methods!
‘‘Attic Eed-figured Vases in American Museums”
represents a comprehensive treatment of the red-figured
style from the transitional period to the Meidias Painter.
The majority of the better-known artists and potters
are stndied and numerous new attributions given either
to their own hands or to the nameless artists who worked
for them. In addition a large number of new painters
is added, many of them, like the Niobid Painter, artists
of the first rank. Especially good are the sections de¬
voted to the work of Epiktetos, the Euphronian group,
Oltos, Hermonax, and Makron. Numerous additions to
the work of artists already published by him elsewhere,
like the Achilles, Pan, and Berlin Amphora Painters
are included. The style is marked by flashes of pleas¬
ant humor, the analysis is thorough and scholarly, and
the illustrations are comprehensive and useful.
But there are some serious items on the debit side.
Perhaps the first thing that strikes the critic most for¬
cibly is the title, for, considering how extremely few
relatively are the American examples among the total
attributions, another title might well have been selected.
The present one is rather a misnomer.
In practically all of Beazley ’s earlier articles defi¬
nite reasons were given for the various attributions,
and one wishes that a similar method might have been
followed in this book — even if slightly. Of course, it
must be admitted that if the work of every artist in
the volume had been treated as thoroughly as the
Achilles or Pan Painters elsewhere, the volume would
have been many times its size. But in spite of the
author’s qualifications, a number of the attributions
are debatable '(some of the works of the Paris Gigan-
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tomachy Painter, for instance), and were they given a
little less as ex cathedra statements, they might excite
less opposition. In the case of some of the new artists,
like Myson, a few general remarks on his style would
have gone far to make the attributions more convincing.
Perhaps the most serious fault in the book is the
arrangement of the material. There is no index of the
new artists and it requires some agility to locate paint¬
ers like the Orchard or the Deepdene Trophy Pelike
Painters. Further, while the classification of the various
attributions by shapes is praiseworthy, that by sub¬
jects is not. On pp. 10'2-106 there are no less than one
hundred and three cups arranged according to subjects
and the difficulty in finding any given vase among the
number is very great. Had they been given in their
alphabetical order according to museums, this difficulty
would not have arisen. Further, it would have been bet¬
ter if in every case a full list of all the vases attributed
to any master had been included after the text dealing
with them; to pick out the different vases in the Lysis,
Laches, and Lykos groups, or those of the Brygos Paint¬
er is by no means easy.
The choice of names for the new artists is, on the
whole good, but some are unsatisfactory. The question
might be raised why the artist called on p. 194 the
‘‘Painter of the Deepdene Amphora” (which is no
longer in Deepdene) should have been given the name.
As one of the attributions bears the signature of the
potter Oreibelos, it would surely have been more natural
to call their author the Oreibelos Painter, like the Brygos
or Kleophrades Painter. A better title might have been
found for the “Flying Angel” Painter on p. 57. To
American ears the expression is misleading, and in a
work devoted to vases in American museums it would
surely have been easy to have chosen a title less apt
to lead to confusion.
Occasional expressions are irritating. “Youth greav-
ing” on p. 11 No. 28 is surely not English,
The work is extraordinarily free from errors or mis¬
prints. The following small slips may be noted.
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p. 30, fig. 14. Should he Louvre G 30 instead of
G 103.
p. 25. Under New York 06.1021.99 should be plate
16 of the Sambon collection.
p. 50, no. 16. S. 1315 according to Pottier is a dif¬
ferent frag^ment.
p. 80, 4th line from bottom. The reference to Mmee
iv should be page 12 not plate 12.
p. 87, 7th line from bottom. Should be New York
14.105.9 instead of 14.1059.
p. 133. Under Bologna Boreas Painter read Purt-
wangler, Neue Denk. vol. iii instead of ii.
The press work and binding is excellent and the
Harvard Press is to be congratulated on it.
As no book exists in which flaws cannot be picked,
it would be invidious to cavil at the few faults in Beaz-
ley’s work. It is a noteworthy contribution to Greek
ceramics and must be regarded as one of the most valu¬
able works of the kind that have appeared in the last
twenty-five years. Let us hope that the present volume
is only the first of a series of similar works !
Joseph Clark Hoppin.
NOTES
PROTECTION FOR THE HISTORIC MONUMENTS
AND OBJECTS OF ART IN NEARER ASIA
^^HE collapse of the Turkish Empire has called the
A attention of the civilized world to the importance
of protecting the ancient [historic monuments and
objects of art which for centuries have been under the
careless rule of a government that has had little or no
interest in them. No lands on the globe contain such
rich treasures of antiquity, occupying so vast an area,
representing so many civilizations, and covering so
long a period of the world’s history. Most of the early
history of our own civilization and art lies buried in
these lands which are now to be placed under some form
of control by the leading powers of the western world.
It is manifestly the duty of these powers to take im¬
mediate steps to protect this ancient heritage — of which,
after all, the western world is the true heir — and to
formulate laws, and nuake common agreements, ac¬
cording to which the historic monuments and the works
of ancient art now buried may be brought to light and
made miost efficiently to serve the demands of civiliza¬
tion.
Feeling that the interest and duty of the United
States in these matters were as great as those of any
of the western nations, the writer introduced a resolu¬
tion which was adopted at the annual meeting of the
Archaelogical Institute in December, 1917, in accord¬
ance with which the President of the Institute was to
appoint a committee to communicate with the govern¬
ment in Washington on the subject of the protection
of the historic monuments in Turkey as soon as peace
negotiations should be begun. Professor James R.
Breasted introduced a similar resolution at the corre¬
sponding meeting of the American Historical Associa¬
tion, with the result that these two large and influential
bodies placed themselves on record as working for the
same end even while the war was still in progress.
(46)
The Akt Bhuletih.
47
A year later the war had nominally ended and the
Peace Conference had begnn its negotiations in Paris.
At the next annual meeting of the Archaeological In¬
stitute, in December, 1918, the writer introduced another
resolution providing for immediate action in connec¬
tion with the protection and administration of the an¬
cient monuments in Turkey through the Peace Con¬
ference. This resolution was framed on the lines of one
drawn up and adopted by the British learned societies.
Copies of this resolution had been sent out to all the
learned societies, museums, and other institutions in
America likely to be interested, with the request that
they adopt it, and each was asked to cooperate in any
action which the Institute might take toward making
it effective. All of these bodies adopted the resolution
and agreed to cooperate. The Institute then proceeded
to appoint Mr. William H. Buckler its special represen¬
tative in Paris, and the resolutions for cooperation
which had been passed by the other societies and in¬
stitutes made Mr. Buckler their representative also.
As a scholar familiar with the Nearer East and on in¬
timate terms with the British and French scholars,
Mr. Buckler, who was filling a temporary post in the
American Embassy in London, was exceptionally well
qualified to take up this work. He went immediately to
Paris where he became a member of the Archaeological
Joint Committee. This eo'mmittee at first proposed the
constitution of an International Commission for An¬
tiquities for the administration of historic monuments
in Turkish lands, acting as the mandatory of the
League of Nations, and drew up a proposal for the con¬
stitution of such a commission, suggesting the main
principles for a law governing the antiquities. The
proposal, I understand, was received formally by the
Peace Conference, and was returned to the committee
for the further working out of the details of the law.
Later on the Joint Committee was asked by the
British to draw up a law of antiquities for Palestine
which was already under British control. This law, it
seems, appeared to all concerned so highly satisfactory
that the original plan for an international commission
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was, at least temporarily, abandoned in tbe bope that
each and every Power likely to accept a mandate under
the League of Nations for any portion of Turkey in Asia
might agree to adhere to the principles of the law.
The most recent advices from Paris are to the effect
that there is virtually an agreement among the Powers
upon this question, though final action has as yet not
been taken. It seems quite probable that the principles
of this Law of Antiquities for Palestine will be sup¬
ported by the League of Nations, and put in force by
it in all parts of the Turkish Empire allocated to the
various Powers by the League.
It is impossible at this time to publish this law in
detail; but it may be of interest to note that its main
principles provide amply for the protection of the
historic monuments, for a degree of international con¬
trol through the British, French, and American schools
of Archaeology by representation on an advisory board,
for the encouragement of scientific research by compe¬
tent and suitably equipped scholars regardless of
nationality, for the establishment of a national museum
in Jerusalem (which would mean corresponding muse¬
ums in Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Anatolia, etc.),
for equitable division of movable objects discovered
between the national museum and the excavator, for
suitable rewards to be given to native finders of antiqui¬
ties, and for the regulation of exportation, possession
and sale of antiquities by dealers and other private
persons. Almost any law which would guarantee pro¬
tection of the antiquities from loss or damage, and
which would be enforced, would be acceptable in place
of the present ineffectual law with its loose enforce¬
ment; but it may not be too optimistic to hope that
we shall see a law framed and put in force which shall
not only insure the safety of the monuments, but shall
render them accessible; in the first place for study by
scholars, and in the second for enjoyment by art lovers
tbe world over.
Howard Crosby Butler.
PROGRAM OF THE
EIGHTH] ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE
COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION
OF AMERICA,
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM,
New York.
MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 13, and 14,
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN.
MONDAY, MAY 12, 10:00 A. M.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Class Room A.
Address of Welcome
Rbpobts of Committees:
Secretary-Treasurer . John Shapley, Brown
Auditing . George B. Zug, Dartmouth
Membership . John Shapley, Broum
Legislation . Homer E. Keyes, Dartmouth
Books for the College Art Library . Arthur Pope, Harvard
Reproductions for the College Museum and Art
Gallery . David M. Robinson, Johns Hopkins
Investigation of Art Education in American Colleges
and Universities . Holmes Smith, Washington
Research Work and Graduate Teaching in
Art . A. V. Churchill, Smith
President’s Address:
The Future of the College Art
Association . John Pickard, Missouri
The Necessity of Developing the Scientific and Technical
Bases of Art . Edwin M. Blake, New York City
Application of the Munsell System to the Graphic
Arts . Arthur S. Allen, President American
Institute of Graphic Arts
1 P. M.
Luncheon at the Museum Restaurant
(49)
50
The College Art AssooiATioisr op America.
2 P. M.
Gallery Tours to Various Collections in the Museum
3 P. M. Class Room A.
Points of Approach in Teaching Elementary Art
History . E. O. Christensen, OMo State
The Sources of French Romanesque Sculpture . . C. R. Morey, Princeton
Antique Glass . Gustavus A. Eisen, New York City
Preservation of Monuments in Nearer
Asia . Howard Crosby Butler, Princeton
Dynamic Symmetry in Nature and in Greek
Art . Jay Hambidge, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
7 P. M.
Dinner at National Arts Club followed by a “Round Table” Discussion
of the Significance of Art
Art in the College . Annette J. Warner, Cornell
Significance of Oriental Art . Ananda Coomaraswamy, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
Stabilizing the Public Opinion of Art . George William Eggers,
Chicago Art Institute
“The Learning by us all of the Meaning
of it all” . Homer Eaton Keyes, Dartmouth
Art and Salvage of the Past . Frank Jewett Mather, Princeton
TUESDAY, MAY 13, 10 A., M.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Class Room A.
War and Its Records
War Pictures . George Breed Zug, Dartmouth
How the Italians Protected their Works
of Art ....Charles Upson Clarke, American School in Rome
Some War Memorials of the Past . .David M. Robinson, Johns Hopkins
War Memorials . Ralph Adams Cram, Boston
Princeton Battle Monument . Allan Marquand, Princeton
Camoufiage and Art . Homer Saint Gaudens, New York City
Pictorial Records of the War. .Albert Eugene Gallatin, New York City
1 P. M.
Luncheon in the Museum Restaurant
2 P. M.
Visit to the George Grey Barnard Cloisters
In charge of Local Committee on
Arrangements . Louis Weinberg, Ch. College of the
City of New York
7 P. M.
Dinner at National Arts Club followed by “Round Table” discussion of
Art and Industry
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The Need of Art in American Industry and
Education . P. P. Claxton, Commissioner of Education
Practical Problems of Manufacturers and
Designers . William Laurel Harris, Good Furniture
Magazine
Supply and Demand . Ellsworth Woodward, Sophie Newcomh
American Industrial Art and the
Schools . Richard F. Bach, Metropolitan Museum
Art and Industry . Frederick L. Ackerman, New York City
American Art Training for Art Work in the Coming
Art War . Joseph Pennell, Etcher
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 10 A. M.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Class Room A.
Oberlin Art Museum . Clarence Ward, Oherlin
Value of Loan Exhibits at the Fogg Art
Museum . Paul J. Sachs, Harvard
A Student of Ancient Ceramics, Antonio
Pollaiuolo . Fern Rusk Shapley, Boston
Art for the College Degree . Andrew J. West, Princeton
Influence of Dutch Art upon the Art of the
Future . Arthur Edwin Bye, Yassar
Sienese Paintings in the Fogg Art
Museum . George H. Edgell, Harvard
Election of Officers
1 P. M.
Luncheon at the Museum Restaurant
2 P. M.
Gallery Tour in charge of the Local Committee on Arrangements
MINUTES
Eeport of the Secretary-Treasurer :
John Shapley.
Upon assuming office the present treasurer found a deficit of
$44.32. The total income for the present year was $693.50, far more
than twice that of the preceding year. The total expense was $535.62,
likewise large, due to the greatly increased size and consequent cost
of the Bulletin. This makes a net income of $157.88, which leaves,
after subtracting the deficit of the preceding year ($44.32), a balance
on hand of $113.56. Most of the financial improvement is due to new
membership, especially since most of the new institutional members
have bought the back numbers of the Bulletin and because certain of
the old members have neglected to pay their annual dues. In ac¬
cordance with the constitution, a few of these have been dropped
through delinquency. The present number of members is 212, of which
more than half are active.
The report of the Secretary-Treasurer was accepted
upon approval of the Auditing Committee.
Report of the Committee on Membership :
John Shapley, Chairman.
The Committee on Membership sent out during the year about
2000 circular and personal letters of invitation to individuals and in¬
stitutions. This gave rise to a very large correspondence with prospec¬
tive new members, more than a hundred of whom have been added.
Some of the new names will he found in the list published last Sep¬
tember; the others will appear in the next list. The Association
should be gratified that a large number of institutions have become
associate members and that there has been a small response to the
call for sustaining members. With the cooperation of others outside
the membership committee many more additions can doubtless be made.
Report of the Committee on Legislation:
A special committee, with E. R. Bossange as chair¬
man, reported the following resolution, which was
adopted : —
Whereas the development of the arts, particularly in their ap¬
plication to industrial pursuits, is becoming more and more a necessity
as the dependence of American industry upon American artists and
artisans increases.
And whereas much of the restlessness and of the discontent of
man with his work and with his surroundings is due to lack of beauty
in his life and lack of opportunity for self expression.
And whereas the present is an opportune time to profit by the
inspiration awakened by the contact of our soldiers with the national
arts of Europe, which so thoroughly permeate and enrich life,
And whereas in order that this country may compete successfully
with the highly organized arts and industries of foreign countries it
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is necessary for the United States Government to support and direct
the development, organization, and coordination of art work in schools,
museums, and other institutions,
Be it therefore
Resolved'. That the College Art Association of America recom¬
mend to Congress, as a practical measure in reconstruction and as an
indispensable factor in the economic growth of America, the creation
of a Department of Fine and Industrial Arts, as a permanent depart¬
ment of the Federal Government, corresponding to the Ministries of
Fine Arts of European governments.
Eeport of Committee on Books for the College Art
'Library :
Arthuk Pope, Chairman.
Owing to conditions during the past year, which it is hardly
necessary to specify in detail, the Committee on Books for the College
Art Library is able to report but little actual progress toward the
publication of the list of books. The purchase of Congressional Li¬
brary cards for three duplicate card catalogues has, however, been
authorized, and the Committee hopes soon to have these complete and
ready for circulation. The Congressional Library cards will insure ac¬
curacy and uniformity in the published list.
It is hoped that the Harvard University Press will undertake the
publication of the list, but in case it should decline to do so and no
other press should be willing to do it, the Committee would like to
know if it is the desire of the College Art Association to finance the
publication? The Committee hopes that this will not he necessary,
and that the publication of the list may be pushed rapidly during the
summer.
The Committee hopes to make a much more satisfactory report
at the next meeting.
Eeport of Committee on Eeproductions for the College
Museum and Art G-allery:
REPRODUCTIONS OP ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC ART FOR THE
COLLEGE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY.
Charles R. Morey.
This report is meant to follow the lines of that presented to the
Association in Bulletin No. 3, wherein Miss Abbott outlined three lists
of casts of sculpture to cost respectively $1000, $3000, and $5000.
It will be noted that the lists contain no casts of ivories. This
is due to the fact that casts from ivories are generally unsatisfactory,
but I also feel that the periods of the Early Middle Ages whose figure-
sculpture is chiefiy represented by the ivory-carvings are much better
illustrated by illuminated manuscripts. In fact, it seems to me that
an art curriculum which proposes to do thorough work in the mediaeval
period must sooner or later feel the necessity of good reproductions of
manuscript miniatures and illuminations, if for no other reason than
that illumination is the mediaeval art par excellence, beginning and
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ending with the Middle Ages, and the only form of mediaeval art
which offers at once both plenty of material, and a continuous and
consistent evolution of style. For this reason I should strongly rec¬
ommend the purchase of good collections of manuscript reproductions,
e. g.
Boinet: La Miniature Carolingienne, Paris, Picard. 1913.
Kraus: Miniaturen des Codex Egherti, Freiburg i/B, Herder, 1884.
Swarzenski: Regensburger Buchmalerei, Leipzig, Hiersemann,
1901.
Swarzenski: Salzturger Buchmalerei, Leipzig, Hiersemann, 1913.
Merton: Buchmalerei in 8t. Oallen, Leipzig, Hiersemann, 1912.
Westwood: Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish
Manuscripts (poor colored plates).
Sullivan: The Book of Kells (colored plates), N. Y., the “Studio”
1914.
Warner: Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum (col¬
ored plates), London, Brit. Mus., 1903.
Bristish Museum: Reproductions of Illuminated Manuscripts.
Societe de Reproductions de Mss. d Miniatures: Bible Moralis^e,
Paris, 1911-1913.
Paris, Bibliotheque Rationale: Reproductions (selected). /
For the ivories themselves, I should recommend, instead of casts,
the photographs published by Graeven of ivories in Italian and Eng¬
lish collections, Voge’s plates reproducing the ivories in the Berlin
Museum, and, above all, the recent publication of Carolingian ivories
by Goldschmidt. Even his photogravures convey a truer impression
of style and technique that do casts.
I think that the same objection to casts obtains, although of
course in lesser degree, with reference to sculpture in stone. The
more generalized surfaces of ancient marbles and the pseudo-classic
modelling of Renaissance sculpture are very well conveyed by plas¬
ter because their prevailing values are those of form and mass. But
the effect of Romanesque and Gothic sculpture is often a matter of
delicate line that is lost in the cast, and Gothic sculpture is usually
so much a part of the architecture which it decorates that a cast, to
do it justice, should also include a considerable portion of the build¬
ing — much more, in fact, than the moulder will commonly include.
For this reason photographs seem to me still the best apparatus for
the study of Romanesque and Gothic, and I find that neither teacher
nor student makes use of the Princeton cast collection to an extent
which compares in any degree with the constant employment of our
photographs.
We nevertheless have to consider the casual visitor, and the general
student body, as well as those who are enrolled in the art courses, and
for these therei can be no question of the immense value of the silent
teaching conveyed by reproductions. Casts are undoubtedly a necessary
part of the equipment of the College Art museum; but, for the reasons
given above, the reproductions of Romanesque and Gothic sculptures
should be few and big, so far as is possible. The effect of these styles
is cumulative, proceeding from the ensemble rather than from details.
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I. Minimum List, approximately $1000
French Romanesque
1. Vezelay, abbey church, portal.
2. Paris, N. Dame, St. Anne Portal, Virgin & Child.
French Gothic
3. Paris, N. Dame, Virgin Portal, tympanum.
4. Reims, cathedral. Annunciation & Visitation.
5. Strassburg, cathedral, statues of Church & Synagogue.
6. Paris, N. Dame, Virgin in the choir.
German Romanesque
7. Hildesheim, Bernward Column.
German Gothic
8. Bamberg, cathedral, statues of Adam & Eve.
Italian Romanesque
9. Parma, cathedral. Deposition, relief by Antellami.
10. Pistoja, S. Bartolommeo, relief from pulpit by Guido da Como.
Italian Gothic
11. Pisa, baptistery, pulpit, reliefs by Niccolo Pisano.
12. Pistoja, S. Andrea, pulpit, figure & relief by Giovanni
Pisano.
13. Florence, campanile, reliefs by Andrea Pisano.
14. Florence, Or San Michele, tabernacle, reliefs by Orcagna.
II. List to cost approximately $3000
French Romanesque
1. Arles, St. Gilles, pilaster and portion of frieze.
2. Vezelay, abbey portal.
3. Moissac, tympanum and figures on jambs of portal.
4. Clermont-Ferrand. N. Dame du Port, reliefs of portal &
capitals.
5. St. Denis, statues of king and queen from Corbeil.
6. Paris, N. Dame, Portal of St. Anne, Virgin & Child.
7. Senlis, cathedral, lintel with Resurrection of Virgin.
French Gothic
8. Paris, N. Dame, Virgin Portal, tympanum.
9. Chartres, cathedral, south transept, statue of Christ.
10. Reims, cathedral. Annunciation & Visitation.
11. Amiens, cathedral, statue of St. Firmin.
12. Strassburg, cathedral, statues of Church & Synagogue.
13. Paris, N. Dame, panel of choir-screen.
14. Paris, N. Dame, Virgin in the choir.
15. Dijon, Chartreuse de Champmol, Puits de Moise.
German Romanesque
16. Hildesheim, Bernward Column.
17. Bamberg, cathedral, apostle & prophet from Choir of St.
George.
German Gothic
18. Freiberg (Saxony), cathedral. Golden Portal.
19. Bamberg, cathedral, statues of Adam & Eve.
20. Bamberg, cathedral, Sibyl.
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21. Cologne, cathedral, Christ & Virgin in the choir.
Italian Romanesque
22. Parma, cathedral. Deposition, relief by Antellami.
23. Pistoja, S. Bartolommeo, pulpit, relief by Guido da Como.
24. Capua, Portrait head of Pietro' delle Vigne.
25. Rome, S. Paolo, detail of decoration of cloisters.
Italian Gothic
26. Pisa, baptistery, pulpit reliefs by Niccolo Pisano.
27. Pistoja, S. Andrea, pulpit, figure & relief by Giovanni
Pisano.
28. Florence, baptistry, bronze gates by Andrea Pisano.
29. Florence, Or San Michele, tabernacle by Orcagna.
English Gothic
30. Wells, cathedral, figures from the fagade.
SI. Beverly, Percy Tomb, “Christ with the Soul.”
III. List to cost approximately $5000
Pre-Romanesque
1. Milan, Paliotto, one front.
French Romanesque
2. Arles, St. Gilles, pilaster, and portion of frieze.
3. Moissac, Tympanum and figures on jambs of portal.
4. Vezelay, abbey-church, portal.
5. La Charity, tympanum of portal.
6. Saintes, portal sculptures.
7. Clermont-Ferrand, N. Dame du Port, portal reliefs & capitals.
8. Chartres, cathedral, west front, tympanum of central portal
and two statues.
9. Paris, N. Dame, St. Anne Portal, Virgin & Child.
10. Senlis, cathedral, lintel with Resurrection of the Virgin.
French Gothic
11. Paris, N. Dame, Virgin portal, tympanum.
12. Chartres, cathedral, south transept, statue of Christ.
13. Reims, cathedral, two of the five Types of Christ.
14. Chartres, cathedral, north transept, St. Modesta.
15. Amiens, cathedral, statue of St. Firmin.
16. Amiens, cathedral, reliefs of Virtues & Vices, and Calendar.
17. Reims, cathedral, north transept, two statues of apostles.
18. Amiens, cathedral, south transept. Virgin of Golden Portal.
19. Reims, cathedral. Annunciation & Visitation.
20. Bourges, cathedral. Last Judgment.
21. Strassburg, cathedral, statues of Church & Synagogue.
22. Paris, N. Dame, panel from choir-screen.
23. Paris, N. Dame, statue of Virgin in the choir.
24. St. Denis, Tomb-statue of Charles V.
25. Dijon, Chartreuse de Champmol, Puits de Moise.
Spanish Romanesque
26. Santiago de Compostella, Puerta della Gloria.
German Romanesque
27. Hildesheim, Bernward Column.
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28. Bamberg, cathedral, Choir of St. George, apostle & prophet.
German Gothic
29. Bamberg, cathedral, statues of Adam & Eve.
30. Bamberg cathedral, Sibyl.
31. Naumburg, cathedral, statues of Ekkehard & Uta.
32. Nuremberg, St. Lorenzkirche, West portal, reliefs.
33. Cologne, cathedral, statues of Christ & Virgin in choir.
Flemish Romanesque
34. Liege, St. Barthelemy, Font by Lambert Patras.
Italian Romanesque
35. Parma, cathedral. Deposition, relief by Antellami.
36. Pistoja, S. Bartolommeo, pulpit, relief by Guido da Como.
37. Capua, Portrait head of Pietro delle Vigne.
38. Ravello, Sigilgaita head.
39. Rome, S. Paolo, detail of decoration of cloister.
Italian Gothic
40. Pisa, baptistery, pulpit, reliefs by Niccolo Pisano.
41. Pistoja, S. Andrea, pulpit, figure & relief by Giovanni Pisano.
42. Orvieto, S. Domenico, Tomb of Cardinal de Braye.
43. Florence, baptistery, bronze gates by Andrea Pisano.
44. Florence, Or San Michele, tabernacle by Orcagna.
English Gothic
45. Wells, cathedral, figures from the fagade.
46. Beverly, Percy Tomb, “Christ with the Soul.”
Report of Committee on Resolutions :
David M. Robinson, Chairman.
The following resolutions were presented and
adopted : —
Resolved that we, the members and friends of the College Art As¬
sociation of America, desire to express our great regret at the retire¬
ment of President John Pickard. We owe an especial debt to him and
hereby record our gratitude for his sacrifices and his devotion to the
Interests of the Association. He took office when it was young and
not yet firmly established and with his energy and optimistic faith put
it on a firm basis and gained for it an enviable reputation in the
scholarly and educational world. He has given almost all his leisure
for five years to the work of the Association, and under his leadership,
in spite of the difficulties of the period of the war, the membership has
increased to more than two hundred. He inaugurated the Bulletin,
of which there have already been published four numbers, containing
papers and proceedings which would do credit to any scientific so¬
ciety. The success of the College Art Association is due primarily to
his unremitting efforts, common sense, and conscientious hard work.
A resolution cannot do justice to Professor Pickard’s achievement but
we desire to have formal recognition of it on record.
Resolved that we, the members and friends of the College Art
Association of America, tender our sincere thanks to Director Robin¬
son and the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for their
generosity in welcoming us to the Museum and in placing Class Room
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A at our disposal. We desire also to thank most heartily the National
Arts Club for their kindness in opening their dining room for the
two dinners of the Association. We express our great gratitude to
Mr. George Grey Barnard for permission to visit the Barnard Cloisters;
to the Macbeth, Montross, and Daniel Galleries for the privilege of
viewing their collections; and to the Montross Galleries for serving
tea. Lastly, especial thanks should be recorded to Professor Louis
Weinberg, Chairman of the Local Committee on Arrangements, and
Mr. Edwin M. Blake, Miss Christine Reid, and Mr. Kniffen, who have
spared no pains for our happiness and comfort.
The following motions introduced by George B.
Zug were voted: —
Moved that the President appoint a Committee on Publicity, con¬
sisting of three members, to be active through the year and to co¬
operate in advance with a fourth member of such Committee at the
city in which the Association meets next year, and that this new mem¬
ber be appointed by action of the Committee on Publicity in consultation
with the President.
Moved that the president be authorized to appoint a Committee on
Cooperation with other organizations whose purpose it is to stimu¬
late and elevate the teaching and understanding of art in the schools.
Eeport of Committee on Nominations:
George B. Zug, Chairman.
President: David M. Robinson; Vice-President: Paul J. Sachs;
Secretary-Treasurer: John Shapley; Directors: John Pickard and
George B. Zug.
No other nominations were made and these officers
were unanimously elected.
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The College Art Association of America
AN ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT
OF THE STUDY OF THE FINE ARTS IN
AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.
OFFICERS 1919-1920.
President .
Vice-President .
Secretary and Treasurer
. David M. Robinson
Johns Hopkins University
. Paul J. Sachs
Harvard University
. John Shapley
Brown University
Edith R. Abbott .
William A. Griffith .
John Pickard .
Holmes Smith .
Ellsworth Woodward
George B. Zug .
DIRECTORS.
. . . .Metropolitan Museum
. . . . University of Kansas
. . University of Missouri
. Washington University
Sophie Newcomh College
. Dartmouth College
COMMITTEES.
I. Membership:
John Shapley, Chairman, Brown; A. V. Churchill, Smith; Ar¬
thur B. Clark, Leland Stanford; Arthur W. Dow, Columbia;
Walter Sargent, Chicago; William Woodward, Tulane.
II. Books for the College Art Library:
Arthur Pope, Chairman, Harvard; H. T. Bailey, Cleveland,
Ohio; A. M. Brooks, Indiana; Jeannette Scott, Syracuse.
III. Reproductions for the College Museum and Art Gallery:
David M. Robinson, Chairman, Johns Hopkins; Edith R. Ab¬
bott, Metropolitan Museum; C. R. Morey, Princeton ; John Shap¬
ley, Brown; Clarence Ward, Oberlin.
IV. Time and Place:
C. R. Morey, Chairman, Princeton; Davidson M. Robinson,
Johns Hopkins.
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V. Nominations:
John Pickard, Chairman, Missouri; P. J. Mather, Jr., Prince¬
ton; Ellsworth Woodward, Sophie Newcomh.
VI. Legislation:
H. E. Keyes, Chairman, Dartmouth ; A. R. Bossange, Carnegie
Institute of Technology; G. H. Chase, Harvard; Edward Robin¬
son, Metropolitan Museum.
VII. Investigation of Art Education in American Colleges and Uni-
ver sites:
Holmes Smith, Chairman, Washington; Alice V. V. Brown, WeZ-
lesley; C. R. Post, Harvard; Ellsworth Woodward, Sophie New¬
comb.
VIII. Publications:
David M. Robinson, Chairman, Johns Hopkins; Alfred M. Brooks,
Indiana; Arthur W. Dow, Columbia; F. J. Mather, Jr., Prince¬
ton; John Pickard, Missouri; A. K. Porter, Yale; Paul J.
Sachs, Harvard; John Shapley, Brown.
IX. Research Work and Graduate Teaching in Art:
A. V. Churchill, Chairman, Smith; A. M. Brooks, Indiana; Alice
V. V. Brown, Wellesley; Arthur W. Dow, Columbia; E. W.
Forbes, Harvard; Clarence Kennedy, Smith; G. Kriehn, Colum¬
bia; A. K. Porter, Yale.
X. Exhibitions:
George B. Zug, Chairman, Dartmouth; G. W. Eggers, Chicago,
III.; Duncan Phillips, Washington, D. C.; John Pickard, Mis¬
souri; D. F. Platt, Englewood, N. J.; Paul J. Sachs, Harvard.
XI. PubUcity:
George B. Zug, Chairman, Dartmouth; P. .1. Mather, Jr., Prince¬
ton; Paul J. Sachs, Harvard.
XII. Cooperation with other Organizations:
Walter Sargent, Chairman, Chicago;. R. P. Bach, Columbia; H.
T. Bailey, Cleveland, Ohio;. G. W. Eggers, ChiOago, III.; C.
F. Kelley, Ohio; G. Kriehn, Columbia; Margaret McAdory, Ala¬
bama; Eunice Perine, Albany, N. Y.; George B. Zug, Dartmouth.
SUSTAINING MEMBERS.
Blake, Edwin, M., 1 Liberty, St., New York City.
Hoppin, Joseph C., Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Penna.
Pickard, John, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
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Sachs, Paul J., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Sahm, Marie, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo.
Shapley, John, Brown University, Providence, R. I.
ACTIVE AND ASSOCIATE MEMBERS.
Abbot, Edith R., Metropolitan Museum, New York City.
Amherst College Library, Amherst, Mass.
Ankeney, John S., University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
Bailey, H. T., Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
Ball, Mrs. W. G., 12 Catharine St., Worcester, Mass.
Barrangon, Mrs. Lucy Lord, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Boalt, Marian G., 26 Cortland St., Norwalk, Ohio.
Boeker, Mrs. Elna C., Hunter College, New York City.
Bossange, A. R., Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Penna.
Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Mass.
Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine.
Bredin, Christine S., Converse College, Spartanburg, S. C.
Brenau College Library, Gainesville, Ga.
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, New York.
Brooks, Alfred M., University of Indiana, Bloomington, Ind.
Burke, Robert E., University of Indiana, Bloomington, Ind.
Brison, Mary J., State Normal College, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
Bryn Mawr College Library, Bryn Mawr, Penna.
Bye, Arthur E., Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Penna.
Carleton College Library, Northfield, Minn.
Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Penna.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Penna.
Carnegie Public Library, Ottawa, Canada.
Carnell, Miss Laura H., The Temple University, Philadelphia, Penna.
Carroll, Mitchell, The Octagon, Washington, D. C.
Carruth, Charles T., 4 Fayerweather St., Cambridge, Mass.
Carter, Luella, Bellevue College, Bellevue, Neb.
Carter, Rev. James, Lincoln University, Chester Co., Penna.
Chandler, Anna C., Metropolitan Museum, New York City.
Chase, George H., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Chicago, University of, Chicago, Ill.
Child, Catherine B., School of Fine Arts & Crafts, 126 Mass. Ave.,
Boston, Mass.
Chipman, Minnie E., College of Hawaii, Honolulu, I. H.
Christensen, Edwin 0., Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Church, J. E., Jr., University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada.
Churchill, Alfred V., Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Clark, Arthur B., Leland Stanford Jr. University, Palo Alto, Cal.
Clark, Marion E., Smith College Art Gallery, Northampton, Mass.
Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio,
Cobb, Ethelyn P., Elmwood School, 213 Bryant St., Buffalo, N. Y,
Colgate University Library, Hamilton, N. Y.
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Columbia University Library, New York City.
Cossit Library, Memphis, Tenn.
Cross, Herbert R., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Culbertson, Linn, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
Cunningham, Mary C., Occidental College, Los Angeles, Cal.
Denio, Elizabeth H., University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y.
Dielman, Frederick, College of the City of New York, New York City.
Dow, Arthur "W., Columbia University, New York City.
Dutch, George S., George Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn.
Edgell, George H., 9 Traill St., Cambridge, Mass.
Ege, Otto F., Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, Penna.
Eldred, Mabel D., R. I. State College, Kingston, R. I.
Ernesti, Richard, Pennsylvania State College, State College, Penna.
Fanning, Ralph S., University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.
Farnum, Royal B., Mechanics Institute, Rochester, N. Y.
Fisher, Anna A., University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
Forbes, Edward "W., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Mass.
Foss, Florence, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.
Fowler, Eva, Box 234, Sherman, Texas.
Fowler, Harold N., "Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Freeman, Lucy J., Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
Froehlicher, Hans, Goucher College, Baltimore, Md.
Galbraith, Elizabeth, 403 Lafayette Ave., Fayetteville, Ark.
Gale, Walter R., Baltimore City College, Baltimore, Md.
Godwin, Blake-More, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio.
Grant, Blanche C., University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
Griffith, W. A., University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans.
Grinnell College Library, Grinnell, Iowa.
Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, N. Y.
Grummann, Paul H., University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
Hall, Mary L., Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio.
Harvard University Library, Cambridge, Mass.
Heath, Eila, Baker University, Baldwin, Kans.
Hedley, R. W., Edmonton Public Schools, Edmonton, Alberta.
Hekking, W. M., University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans.
Hill, Harriett A., Cedar Crest College for Women, Allentown, Penna.
Hincks, Harvey S., 14 Cooke St., Providence, R. I.
Hoboken Free Public Library, Hoboken, N. J.
Holden, Mrs. Hendrick, 1100 James St., Syracuse, N. Y.
Holmes, Jessie R., Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.
Houston Lyceum and Carnegie Library, Houston, Texas.
Howard, Rossiter, Art Institute, Minneapolis, Minn.
Huddleston, E. T., New Hampshire College, Durham, N. H.
Humphreys, Sally T., Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.
Hyde, Gertrude S., Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.
Myde, Mary E., Teachers’ College, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Ind.
Indiana State Normal School Library, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Jersey City Free Public Library, Jersey City, N. J.
Jewett, Almira, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N. D.
Kallen, Deborah, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
Kellogg, Elizabeth R., Cincinnati Museum Assn. Cincinnati, Ohio.
Kennedy, Clarence, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Keyes, Homer E., Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.
Keffer, Mary, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio.
Kelley, Charles F., Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Kelley, J. Redding, College of the City of New York, New York City.
Ketcham, Mary, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.
Knopf, Nellie A., Woman’s College, Jacksonville, Ill.
Kriehn, George, Columbia University, New York City.
Laird, Warren P., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Penna.
Lake, Edward J., University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.
Lauber, Joseph, Columbia University, New York City.
Lent, Frederick, Elmira College, Elmira, N. Y.
Levy, Florence N., 41 W. 83rd St., New York City.
Linneman, Alice A., 305 Jefferson St., St. Charles, Mo.
Ma Soo, 615 Fifth Ave., New York City.
Manchester City Library, Manchester, N. H.
Mann, Frederick M., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
Marquand, Allan, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.
Mather, Prank J., Jr., Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.
McAdory, Margaret, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Ala.
Metropolitan Museum Library, New York City.
Miami University Library, Oxford, Ohio.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minn.
Minnesota University, Division of Home Economics, Minneapolis, Minn.
Moore, Edith H., Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
Moore, Muriel, Mont. State College of Ag. and Mech. Arts, Bozeman,
Mont.
Morey, Charles R., Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.
Morse, Alice C., Central High School, Scranton, Penna.
Municipal University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.
Myers, E. E., Marshall College, Huntington, W. Va.
Nebraska, University of, Lincoln, Neb.
Nelson, Clara A., Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.
Neus, Englebert, College of the City of New York, New York City.
New York Public Library, New York City.
Newark Free Public Library, Newark, N. J.
Niemeyer, John H., Yale Art School, New Haven, Conn.
Nye, Mrs. Phila C., 7% Greenholm, Princeton, N. J.
Oakes, Eva M., Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
O’Donnell, Agnes M., 140 Claremont Ave., New York City.
Oregon State Library, Salem, Ore.
Oregon, University of, Eugene, Ore.
Partridge, Charlotte R., Milwaukee Downer College, Milwaukee, Wis.
Pattee, Loueen, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Paul, Gertrude, 2210 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Md.
Perine, Eunice A., New York State College for Teachers, Albany, N. Y.
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Perry, Helen, 1441 Logan St., Denver, Colo.
Phillips, Duncan, 1600 21st St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
Platt, Dan Fellows, Englewood, N. J.
Poland, Reginald, Denver Public Library, Denver, Colo.
Pomona College Library, Claremont, Cal.
Pope, Arthur, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Porter, Arthur K., Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Post, Chandler R., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Potts, Elizabeth, Christian College, Columbia, Mo.
Powers, H. H., University Prints, Newton, Mass.
Powers J. H., University Prints, Newton, Mass.
Providence Public Library, Providence, R. I.
Purdue University Library, LaFayette, Ind.
Purdum, M. Bertha, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.
Reid, M. Christine, Hunter College, New York City.
Rice, Barbara, 33.8 Taffan St., Brookline, Mass.
Rice, Dana, 151 Sessions St., Providence, R. I.
Rice Institute Library, Houston, Texas.
Robinson, Alice, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Robinson, David M., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
Robinson, Edward, Metropolitan Museum, New York City.
Rogers, Mary G., New York Training School for Teachers, New York
City.
Root, Ralph R., University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.
Roselli, Bruno, Adelphi College, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rowe, L. Earle, R. I. School of Design, Providence, R. I.
Ryerson Library, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
Sachs, Julius, Columbia University, New York City.
St. Xavier Academy, 4928 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, Ill.
St. Catherine, College of, St. Paul, Minn.
St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Mo.
St. Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minn.
Salem State Normal School, Salem, Mass.
Sargent, Walter, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
Savannah Public Library, Savannah, Georgia.
Scott, Jeannette, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.
Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Wash.
Senseny, George, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Sheerer, Mary G., Sophie Newcomb College, New Orleans, La.
Skinner, Stella, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
Smith, Anna E., Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.
Smith, Edna K., 14 W. 84th St., New York City.
Smith, Gertrude R., Sophie Newcomb College, New Orleans, La.
Smith, Holmes, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
Smith, Louise J., Randolph Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, Va.
Smith, Mrs. Susan M., Mills College, Mills College P. O., Cal.
Spencer, Eleanor P., Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.
Sprague, Elizabeth, Fairmount College, Wichita, Kans.
Stahl, Marie L., Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
Straight, Bertha K., 138 Newbury St., Boston, Mass.
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strong, Beulah, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Sumner, John O., 225 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.
Tilton, Martha L., Elmira College, Elmira, N. Y.
Tonks, Oliver S., Vassar College, Poughskeepsie, N. Y.
Treganza, Ruth R., 110 Morningside Drive, New York City.
Tryon, D. W., 1 W. 64th St, New York City.
Underhill, Gertrude, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
Vassar College Library, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Walker, C. Howard, 71 Kilby St., Boston, Mass.
Walton, Alice, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
Ward, Clarence, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
Warner, Annette J., Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Washington University Library, St. Louis, Mo.
Webster, S. E., N. Y. Training School for Teachers, New York City.
Weinberg, Louis, College of the City of New York, New York City.
Wellesley College Art Department, Wellesley, Mass.
Wells, Edna M., Hunter College, New York City.
Weston, Karl E., Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
Wetmore, Mary M., University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.
Whittemore, Mrs. L. D., Washburn College, Topeka, Kans.
Wittenberg College Library, Springfield, Ohio.
Woodward, Ellsworth, Sophie Newcomb College, New Orleans, La.
Woodward, William, Tulane University, New Orleans, La.
Worcester Art Museum Library, Worcester, Mass.
Wright, Theodore L., 839 Church St., Beloit, Wis.
Wykes, A. G., Hunter College, New York City.
Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn.
Zantzinger, C. C., 112 S. 16th St., Philadelphia, Penna.
Zug, George B., Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.
Plate II.
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nin: Christ.
Fig. 4 — Orleans, Museum:
Christ.
Fig. 5 — Paris, Bibl. Nat.: St. Mark,
Plate III.
Fig. 6 — Zurich, National Museum:
Ivory Plaque.
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