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With  the  present  number  the  College  Art  Association  begins  the 
quarterly  publication  of  its  bulletin.  For  several  annual  meetings  the 
establishment  of  a  quarterly  magazine  has  been  recommended  by  the 
Committee  on  Publications  and  this  action  has  been  especially  urged 
by  ex-President  Pickard  and  President  Robinson.  In  accordance  with 
the  recommendation  set  forth  by  Professor  Pickard  in  his  last  presi¬ 
dential  address  a  resolution  authorizing  the  immediate  inauguration 
of  this  quarterly  was  adopted.  College  Art  Association  material  may 
be  sent  to  the  President  or  Secretary.  Contributions  of  scholarly  in¬ 
terest  and  books  for  review  are  particularly  invited. 

The  four  annual  bulletins  already  published  by  the  Association 
are  to  be  taken  as  constituting  Vol.  I.  Henceforward  an  annual  volume 
of  four  numbers  will  be  Issued.  This  number,  dating  September,  1919, 
is  therefore  given  the  serial  numbering  Vol.  II,  No.  1. 

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CONTENTS 


Page 

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. 

(5) 


6  The  Coelege  Art  Association  of  America. 


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 


8  The  College  Art  Association’  of  America. 


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 

(10) 


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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 


12  The  Coklege  Art  Association  op  America. 


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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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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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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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 


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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, 

(31) 


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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. 


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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 


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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 


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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 


(39) 


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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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41 


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) 


The  Art  Bulletin. 


43 


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- 


44  The  College  Art  AssociATioisr  of  America. 


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. 


The  Art  Bulhbtih. 


45 


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 


48  The  College  Art  Association  of  America. 


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 


The  Aet  BuLiLHTiisr, 


51 


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. 


\ 


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. 


64  The  College  Art  Associatioet  of  America. 


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. 


Fig.  3 — Toulouse,  St.  Seb- 
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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Utrecht  Psalter.