New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Part 16

GROUP SEVEN

_Education for Defectives. The Blind, Deaf and Dumb, Feeble-Minded_

New York Inst.i.tution for the Improved Instruction of Deaf-Mutes, New York city.

Photographs New York Inst.i.tution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, New York city. Gold medal Photographs Drawings Pupils' written work Pyrography Publications Eighteen volumes of reports Text-books Administrative blanks Northern New York Inst.i.tution for Deaf-Mutes, Malone Pupils' selected work in drawing New York Inst.i.tution for the Blind, New York city. Bronze medal Cord, rattan and raffia work New York State School for the Blind, Batavia. Silver medal Three volumes pupils' work Basketry Broom making Mattress making Piano action repairing Sewing Photographs Administrative blanks State Library, Home Education Division. Silver medal Traveling library for the blind Western New York Inst.i.tution for Deaf-Mutes, Rochester. Bronze medal Four volumes pupils' written work Five volumes reports and catalogues Twenty volumes publications Photographs, Administrative blanks Drawings Charts

The following awards were made in this group to exhibits not a part of the collective State exhibit:

American a.s.sociation for Instructors of the Blind. Grand prize New York State collaborators: State School for the Blind, Batavia New York School for the Blind, New York city a.s.sociation of Medical Officers of Inst.i.tutions for Idiots and Feeble-Minded Persons. Grand prize New York State collaborators: State Custodial Asylum for Unteachable Idiots, Rome State Inst.i.tution for Feeble-Minded Children, Syracuse Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf. Grand prize New York State collaborator: Wright Oral School for the Deaf, New York city New York city, Department of Education. Gold medal For the establishment of a special school for the education of atypical children New York Inst.i.tution for Feeble-Minded, Syracuse. Gold medal Wright Oral School for the Deaf, New York city. Bronze medal

GROUP EIGHT

_Summer Schools, Extension Schools, Popular Lectures, Educational Publications and Appliances_

Adirondack Summer School, Saranac Lake Photographs and pamphlets Chautauqua Inst.i.tution, Chautauqua, N. Y. Grand prize Photographs Publications Administrative blanks Prospectus and syllibi City History Club of New York. Bronze medal Six volumes pupils' written work Photographs Charts Statistics People's Inst.i.tute, New York city. Silver medal One volume, "Working with the People"

Prospectus Photographs Teachers' a.s.sociation, New York State. Gold medal Statistical exhibit, 32 graphic charts Training School for Deaconesses, New York city. Silver medal Administrative blanks Catalogues Photographs Young Women's Christian a.s.sociation, New York city. Silver medal One volume of reports Administrative blanks Clay modeling Pyrography Artistic design and art furniture

The following awards were made in this group to exhibits not a part of the collective State exhibit:

Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York city. Grand prize Dodd, Mead & Company, New York city. Grand prize Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, New York city. Grand prize American Book Company, school and college text-books. Grand prize Silver, Burdett & Company, New York city. Grand prize Prang Educational Company, New York city. Grand prize Charles Beseler Company, New York city, stereopticons and appliances.

Gold medal Pitmanic Inst.i.tute, Phonographic, New York city. Gold medal C.W. Bardeen, Syracuse. Silver medal S.S. Packard, New York city. Silver medal

The following awards were made to collaborators:

Henry L. Taylor, professional education in the United States. Gold medal

A grand prize Was also awarded to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission of the State of New York for its collective exhibit in this group

A special Commemorative Diploma was conferred by the Department jury upon Andrew Sloan Draper, Commissioner of Education of the State of New York, "in recognition of his distinguished service to Education."

RECAPITULATION OF THE AWARDS MADE TO THE STATE OF NEW YORK IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Grand Prize Gold Medal Group I................ 5 Group I................ 63 Group 2................ 3 Group I, collab........ 2 Group 3................ 7 Group 2................ 36 Group 4................ I Group 2, collab........ 5 Group 5................ I Group 3................ 14 Group 6................ ..Group 4................ I Group 7................ 3 Group 5................ 6 Group 8................ 8 Group 6................ I Special................ I Group 7................ 3 Group 8................ 4 [**Total] 29 Special................ 4 [**Total] 139 _Silver Medal_ _Bronze Medal_ Group I................ 2 Group I.............. ..

Group 1, collab........ 8 Group 2................ 2 Group 2................ I Group 3................ 3 Group 3................ 5 Group 4................ 2 Group 4................ I Group 5................ 3 Group 5................ I Group 6................ I Group 6................ 2 Group 7................ 3 Group 6, collab....... I Group 8................ I Group 7................ 2 Group 8................ 5 [**Total] 15

[**Total] 28 Grand prizes................. 29 Gold medals.................. 139 Silver medals................. 28 Bronze medals................ 15 Grand total................ 211

[Ill.u.s.tration: PALACE OF EDUCATION FROM FESTIVAL HALL]

CHAPTER X

Fine Arts Exhibit and Schedule of Awards

THE FINE ARTS EXHIBIT

By CHARLES M. KURTZ

Acting Secretary of the Executive Committee on Art

[Ill.u.s.tration]

Up to the time of the organization of the Committee on Art for the State of New York, appointed by the New York State Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission, very little had been accomplished in the direction of securing a collection of representative works by the artists of New York for exhibition at the World's Fair at St. Louis.

Professor Ives, Chief of the Department of Art of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and a.s.sistant Chief Kurtz had visited New York at frequent intervals (the first time in January, 1902), had aroused considerable interest in the Exposition among the artists, and had secured the appointment of Advisory Committees of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Mural Painters, Miniature Painters, Engravers, Wood Engravers, Ill.u.s.trators and Workers in the Applied Arts to look after the organization of exhibits in their respective fields of expression and the interests of the Department of Art of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in connection therewith.

WAYS AND MEANS

It was impossible, however, for the work to be carried on in an adequate and worthy manner without State co-operation and a.s.sistance, and a committee of artists, representing the various Advisory Committees, appeared before the Commission, asked that a committee of artists representing the State of New York be appointed to co-operate with the Advisory Committees in the organization of a creditable art exhibit, and that a suitable sum of money be appropriated from the funds placed at the disposal of the Commission to defray the cost of organizing the exhibit, packing, transporting it to and from St. Louis, and insuring it while in transit; the Exposition authorities having agreed to pay the cost of unpacking in St. Louis, installation, insurance while in the Art Palace, and repacking and forwarding at the close of the Exposition.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON ART

After several meetings at the offices of the Commission in New York city and a forceful presentation of the condition of affairs (and the urgent necessity of action by the Commission) by Mr. Watrous, of the Artists'

Committee, the Commission formally resolved to appropriate the sum of $10,000 for the purpose indicated, and appointed the following "Executive Committee on Art for the State of New York" to a.s.sume general direction of the work within the limits of the appropriation: Herbert Adams (sculptor), Grosvenor Atterbury (architect), J. Carroll Beckwith (painter), Francis C. Jones (painter), Louis Loeb (painter and ill.u.s.trator), Will H. Low (painter, ill.u.s.trator and mural painter) and Harry W. Watrous (painter). These men variously represented membership in the National Academy of Design, the Society of American Artists, the National Sculpture Society, the Society of Mural Painters, the American Water Color Society, the Society of Ill.u.s.trators, the New York Etching Club, the American Fine Art Society, the American Inst.i.tute of Architects, the New York Architectural League, the Munic.i.p.al Art Society of New York and the Fine Arts Federation of New York. The Committee formally organized by the election of Harry W. Watrous as Chairman.

Charles M. Kurtz, a.s.sistant Chief of the Department of Art of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, was appointed Acting Secretary without salary.

At a general meeting of the members of all the Advisory Committees in New York city, called by Chairman Watrous at the National Academy of Design, for each committee representing a group of the cla.s.sification a chairman and a secretary was elected and general plans were formulated for the carrying on of the work.

Thereafter, frequent meetings were held by the various committees, at nearly all of which the Chairman of the Executive Committee and the Acting Secretary were present and partic.i.p.ated in the work.

CAREFUL SELECTION OF MATERIAL

The Juries of Selection for the different groups of the cla.s.sification of the Department of Art, const.i.tuted from the membership of the Advisory Committees representing various sections of the country, met and acted during the last two weeks of March, 1904, in the city of New York, pa.s.sing upon upwards of 4,000 works submitted for exhibition. Of this a.s.semblage of works a comparatively small number represented artists of high reputation, and a small proportion was found to be of sufficient merit worthily to represent the artists of the State. The number of exhibits secured thus being very small, and many of the more prominent artists not having submitted works, the different group juries held meetings, prepared lists of representative works calculated to reflect credit upon the State, and specifically invited artists and owners to lend the same for the Exposition. By this means the larger and better portion of the exhibit was secured.

The State of New York, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the artists in general in the State of New York are under great obligations to the members of these juries who so freely, unselfishly and devotedly gave their valuable time and effort to the organization of the art exhibit which represented so comprehensively the best achievement of New York artists.

A REPRESENTATIVE EXHIBIT

Almost every New York painter of individuality and ability--in oil, water-color and miniature work--was represented adequately and creditably; the exhibit of sculpture was exceptionally fine; etching and engraving were exemplified by the ablest exponents of these branches of art, wood engraving by types of its highest expression; there was an excellent collection of works from the leading American ill.u.s.trators, and noteworthy examples of the applied arts--of artistic handicrafts--by New York art workers were well in evidence. In architecture, while the exhibit was creditable, it might have been more comprehensive and representative; and the same might be said of the exhibit of mural painting. The latter, however, as readily may be understood, is extremely difficult of representation at an exposition--most of its examples having been executed in place, and only cartoons or photographs of achieved works usually being available for exhibition.

ADVISORY COMMITTEES

The members of the various Advisory Committees in charge of the organization of the group exhibits were as follows:

For Oil Paintings: Cecilia Beaux, J. Carroll Beckwith, J. G. Brown, Howard Russell Butler, William M. Chase, William A. Coffin, Frederick Dielman, R. Swain Gifford, H. Bolton Jones, John La Farge, Alexander T.

Van Laer, Harry W. Watrous.

For Water Colors, Pastels and Lithographs: F.S. Church, Charles C.