Metropolitan Museum of Art-Continued The gifts in all classes received during the year numbered 5,348, and the number of donors was 247; purchases numbered 7,213 objects. The total accessions numbered 12,687; of these 3,074 were objects of art; 6,995 were books and photographs for the Library; 2,154 were for the Department of Prints; and 464 were miscellaneous objects, chiefly for the Lending Collections. Educational Work-1,092 appointments were met by the four instructors the number of persons reached being 39,649. Of these appointments 573 were with classes from the public schools; 1,189 classes from the schools, with a total of 24,356 children, visited the Museum under the guidance of their own teachers without calling upon the Museum Instructors for their assistance. The instructors, in addition to appointments with school classes, met in 519 appointments 3,201 visitors, singly and in groups. The total attendance at 42 lectures was 11,680. The Museum lent 70,680 objects to 2,063 borrowers, among them 68,899 lantern slides for use in various parts of the country, 872 photographs, 205 facsimile etchings, and 298 paintings. Exhibitions November, 1922-Furniture from workshop of Duncan Phyfe; Japanese prints by primitives; portraits, etched landscapes before 1800; Renaissance Woodcuts. December-Cashmere Shawls; recent accessions of prints. January, 1923-Engravings by the Master E. S.; current work by manufac- March-Chinese paintings. April-George Fuller Memorial Exhibition; loan collection of ship models. NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 170 Central Park West (76th Street to 77th Street), Borough of Manhattan, New York JOHN ABEEL WEEKES.. . President THOMAS T. SHERMAN.....Cor. Sec. R. HORACE GALLATIN. .Treasurer WM. RHINELANDER STEWART, Rec. Sec. .... ALEXANDER J. WALL, Librarian For foundation and history see Vol. I, p. 266. Art Gallery and Museum open free to the public daily 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Sundays 2 to 5 P.M. Library 9 A.M to 5 P.M., Sundays excepted; on holidays 1 to 5 P.M., except Christmas, New Year and Fourth of July. Closed month of August. Library founded 1804; present building erected 1908. Board meetings third Tuesday of each month; annual in January. Annual dues $10; membership 790. The collection includes the New York Gallery of Fine Arts, received in 1858; the Bryan Gallery of old masters, presented in 1867 by the late Thomas J. Bryan; the Durr collection, presented in 1882 by the executors of the late Louis Durr; the Peter Marié collection of miniatures, presented to the Society in 1905; the Isaac J. Greenwood collection of 405 water-color drawings of powder horns, presented in 1907; a collection of miniatures of the Bryant family and manuscript poems by William Cullen Bryant; and the Audubon collection of 464 original water-color drawings by John James Audubon. The gallery consists of 1,114 paintings, of which 374 are portraits. The Department of Antiquities contains the Abbot collection of Egyptian antiquities, which includes three mummies of Apis, the sacred bull of the Egyptians, received by the Society in 1859, and the Nineveh Sculptures, pre New York City Historical Society-Continued sented by James Lenox in 1857. The Edwin Smith collection of Egyptian antiquities containing the oldest medical papyrus in the world. The Library contains 138,622 bound volumes, 155,204 pamphlets and 5,386 volumes of newspapers and colonial papers. There is a large collection of relics, prints and views of New York City. Lectures and exhibitions. NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATION Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, Borough of Manhattan, New York ART GALLERIES For foundation see Vol. XI, p. 252. Open, free, daily 9 A.M. to 6 P.M.; Sundays 1 to 5 P.M., excepting the Stuart Room. Two large galleries devoted to the Lenox, Astor and Stuart collections of paintings and objects of art. PRINTS DIVISION FRANK WEITENKAMPF, Curator of Prints For development see Vol. XI, p. 252. Print room established 1899. The total number of prints is about 75,000. There are special facilities for study in the print room, which adjoins the art reading room (No. 313). Two or more exhibitions always on view; the principal one in Print Gallery (Room 321). A permanent exhibition of processes has been established and is being constantly added to: this shows the making of an etching, a line engraving, a mezzotint, a wood-engraving, a Japanese color-print, a process block. Numerous publications at nominal cost; list sent upon request. Exhibitions, 1922-23: The Making of a Japanese Print; Holiday cards by American artists; Etchings by Whistler; Recent additions. LIBRARY ART DIVISION PAULINE V. FULLERTON, Chief of Division Between 25,000 and 30,000 books covering the fine and the applied arts. Large collection of classified clippings of illustrative material. STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Stuyvesant Place and Wall Street, Saint George, Staten Island, New York HOWARD R. BAYNE.. . President WILLIAM T. DAVIS.... 1st Vice-Pres. AGNES L. POLLARD... ..... Curator For foundation see Vol. XI, p. 265. Museum open, free, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M., except Sunday. Art collections include Roman and Grecian pottery and some mediæval bronzes. Museum also has collections of anthropology, botany, zoology, etc. Institute founded 1881. Public Museum established 1907. Annual meeting third Saturday in May; Board meetings first Saturday in October, January and May. Entrance fee $3; annual dues $3. There are 361 members. The work of the Association includes sectional meetings and special museum exhibits, afternoon lectures for school children and museum exhibition work in connection with public schools and civic organizations. The proceedings are published and a monthly leaflet is issued. Britton Cottage, at New Dorp, Staten Island, presented to the Association Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences-Continued by Dr. and Mrs. Nathaniel L. Britton in 1915. Members and their friends are admitted free to the cottage. Exhibitions: September, 1922-Water color paintings of flowers; OctoberLandscapes in oil and pastel; February, 1923-Old Bibles and other historical books and MSS.; April-Paintings by members of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. VAN CORTLANDT HOUSE MUSEUM Van Cortlandt Park, Borough of Manhattan MRS. WM. ADAMS BROWN...... Pres. MRS. EDWIN THORNE...... Rec. Sec. Open daily, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Sundays, 2 P.M. to 5 P.M. Admission free except on Thursdays, when a card of admission or an entrance fee of 25 cents is required, which includes a cup of tea served in the Colonial kitchen. Collections include furniture and objects relating to the Colonial period of American history. It has been held in trust for the City, since May, 1896, by the Colonial Dames of the State of New York, as a public Museum. This, the third house on the property, was built in 1748 by Jacobus Van Cortlandt, on land bought from the Philipse Manor. It was originally part of the patroonship of Adrian Van der Donck, to whom it was confirmed by Governor Kieft, in 1646, after he had purchased it from the Indians. WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS ASSOCIATION, D. A. R. MRS. OVIEDO M. BOSTWICK.. President For foundation see Vol. XI, p. 266. MRS. GEORGE W. SMITH.....Cor. Sec. 38 West 54th St., New York City WILLIAM H, SHELTON........ Curator Open free, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. every day in the year, except that from November to May it closes at 4:30. Acquired by the city 1903; opened as public museum 1907. It is a museum of Washingtoniana and Colonial and Revolutionary relics. Founded by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the following chapters have individual rooms with collections: Washington Heights, Mary Washington Colonial, Manhattan and Knickerbocker. ALBANY, N. Y. ALBANY INSTITUTE ANR HISTORICAL AND ART SOCIETY 125 Washington Avenue, Albany, N. Y. JOHN M. CLARKE. Gallery open daily 9 to 12 A.M. and 2 to 5 P.M. Saturday and Sunday afternoons free. Over 150 paintings, also collections of sculpture, American silver, pottery, old glass and furniture. Organized 1791; incorporated 1793 as the Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts; present title, incorporated 1900, combines six corporations, all educational; building opened 1908. Annual meeting second Monday in May. Dues, $10 and less; membership, 800. Lectures and exhibitions. BINGHAMTON, N. Y. ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM OF BINGHAMTON WILLIAM F. SEWARD, Custodian Founded 1904. The collection, which is in the art gallery of the Public Library, includes Indian tools, arrowheads, vessels, etc.; Iroquois pottery, old deeds, maps, documents and drawings illustrating pioneer days of Binghamton; portraits of some of the pioneers. Exhibitions, 1922-23: Paintings by John Rummell; engraved glass by Earl H. Sturtevant; paintings of gardens by Blondelle Malone; paintings by Allan Cochran. BUFFALO, N. Y. CHARLES CLIFTON.. BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ALBRIGHT ART GALLERY Delaware Park, Buffalo, N. Y. President LARS SELLSTEDT POTTER....Treasurer EDWARD B. GREEN.....Vice-President MRS. CORNELIA B. SAGE QUINTON, Art Director For foundation and history see Vol. XI, p. 270. Gal Open daily, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M., except Sundays, Mondays and holidays, when the hours are 1 to 5 P.M. Admission free Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays; other days (to non-members) 25 cents. leries of old and modern paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, library. Collection of work by American artists. Organized 1862. Albright Gallery dedicated 1905. Annual meeting first Wednesday after the first Tuesday in January. Board meetings held quarterly on the third Wednesday in January, April, July and October. Permanent invested funds $488,360.14; the income of a little over half is restricted to the purchase of pictures. Annual dues for benefactors, $50,000; Fellow in Perpetuity, $5,000; Fellow for life, $1,000; Life, $100; "Friends," $5. Total membership 533. Educational work is carried on with the public schools and with clubs. Museum extension work is carried on in the local schools, and also includes the New York State Normal School. An art school is maintained (see school section). Occasional public lectures and lecture promenades by members of the staff. Total number of sales from exhibitions held in the Gallery during 1922 was 37. Attendance for the year 1922 was 72,454. Exhibitions June 7 to July 9, 1922-Work by students of the Art School of the Albright Art Gallery. June 12 to Nov. 1-Permanent collection of the Academy shown in its entirety in both the North and South wings. Nov. 8 to Dec. 4-Collection of miniatures by Gerald S. Hayward installed in the Gallery. Dec. 9 to Jan. 8-Paintings by Douglas Volk, Ben Foster, Gardner Symons and W. Elmer Schofield. Feb. 7 to Mar. 7-Twenty-ninth Annual exhibition of the Buffalo Society of Artists. Mar. 10 to Apr. 2-Third Annual salon of the Buffalo Camera Club. Apr. 8 to June 18-Seventeenth Annual exhibition of selected paintings and small bronzes by American artists. Incorporated 1911. Annual meeting in May. Board meetings third Tuesday in month. Income, $10.000 a year. There are 75 paintings of the Flemish, Dutch, German and French schools. During 1922-23, picture study classes were held; school children came to the Gallery every weekday except Monday. The Gallery owas an attract-o-scope, or daylight stereopticon, and slides of famous paintings are on view at all times. Exhibitions May 13 to May 28, 1922-Eighth Annual exhibition of drawings by the public school children of the grades with a special prize exhibition by the pupils of the 6th, 7th and 8th grades. June 2 to June 30-Portraits of well known residents of Elmira. Oct. 3 to Oct. 29--Prints lent by the Brown-Robertson Gallery. Nov. 1 to Nov. 26-Japanese wood prints by Helen Hyde, circulated by the American Federation of Arts. Dec. 2 to Dec. 24-Oils by Maurice Braun. Dec. 30 to Jan. 28, 1923- -Paintings by Marion B. Stanfield and Marian MacIntosh. Feb. 3 to Feb. 25-Garden paintings by Blondelle Malone. Mar. 3 to Apr. 1-Junior Red Cross drawings and sketches by Anna Milo Upjohn. Apr. 6 to Apr. 22-Exhibition of the Philadelphia Water Color Club, circulated by the American Federation of Arts. Apr. 27 to May 27--Oils from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, circulated by the American Federation of Arts. HUNTINGTON, N. Y. HERKSCHER PARK ART MUSEUM The museum was the gift to the people of Huntington of Mr. and Mrs. August Herkscher, and was opened to the public on July 10, 1920. The collection, which numbers about 150 paintings, includes work by Murillo, Diaz, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Gerome, Meissonier, Cranach, Beechey, Van Dyck, Courbet, Edward and Thomas Moran, Troyon, Bierstadt, Inness, Blakelock, etc. There are also several pieces of statuary, including "The Rape of Proserpine" by Girardon. MUSEUM OF CLASSICAL ARCHEOLOGY For foundation see Vol. XI, p. 274. Open week days, 9 A.м. to 12 M. and 2 P.M. to 5 P.M. ITHACA, N. Y. Dedicated 1894. The collection consists principally of casts from notable examples of Greek sculpture; collections of Greek pottery and coins and replicas of pre-Greek antiquities. The Museum is used primarily for laboratory instruction. The Curator, who is also Professor of Archæology, holds his classes in the Museum and also gives courses of popular lectures there. |