BALTIMORE, MD. WALTERS GALLERY North Charles and Centre Streets, Baltimore Private gallery of Henry Walters. Public admitted Wednesdays, Saturdays in January, February, March and April, February 22nd and Easter Monday 11 A.M. to 4 P.M. Fee, 50 cents; proceeds given to the Family Welfare Association, Calvert Street, where tickets must be secured. Tickets may also be secured from: David Bendmann's, 105 East Baltimore Street; Hynson, Westcott & Co., Eutaw Place and North Avenue; the Belvedere and Stafford Hotels; Purnell's Art Galleries, 407 North Charles Street; McGillivray's Pharmacy, Charles and Read Streets; Harris and Shafer Company, 1308 F Street, Washington, D. C. ANDOVER, MASS. JOHN-ESTHER ART GALLERY Abbot Academy, Andover BURTON S. FLAGG..........Treasurer JANE B. CARPENTER.. Building dedicated 1907. Open free, Saturdays, 2 to 5 p.m. Custodian Collection of modern paintings and small Roman bronzes. Apr. 14 to May 12, 1923-Indian and Mexican arts and crafts. BOSTON, MASS. THE CHILDREN'S ART CENTRE OF THE SETTLEMENTS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION MRS. JOSEPH L. SMITH.....President GEORGE LEWIS, JR..... MRS. CHARLES B. PERKINS..1st V.-P. ADELAIDE PEARSON.. .Treasurer .Secretary Open daily, 2 to 5.30 P.M.; Saturdays, 10 A.M. to 5.30 P.M. Admission free. Incorporated 1915. Building opened Apr. 30, 1918. Annual meeting in January. Annual dues, $10; children $2; sustaining $5; life $100. Located in the crowded section of Boston, it has exhibitions and lectures of special interest and value to children. Classes in drawing. Exhibitions, 1922-23: Medici and Arundel prints; Japanese prints; reproductions of paintings by Maxfield Parrish; Edmund Dulac, Willeful Le Mair, Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott; original drawings and etchings by Rembrandt, Shongauer and Dürer. ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER COLLECTION Mrs. John L. Gardner has built her residence in the Italian style around an inner court. Here she has installed an important collection of paintings and art objects. The collection may be seen on certain days between 12 and 3 P.M.; tickets at $1.10 and information regarding dates can be had only at Herrick's ticket agency, Copley Square, Boston. MORRIS GRAY.... MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Huntington Avenue, Boston President WILLIAM C. ENDICOTT......Treasurer ARTHUR FAIRBANKS, Director. CHARLES HENRY HAWES, Assistant Director and Bursar. BENJAMIN IVES GILMAN, Secretary, and Registrar of Public Art. BOSTON, MASS. Museum of Fine Arts-Continued HANFORD L. STORY, Registrar. HENRY PRESTON ROSSITER, Acting Curator of Prints. JOHN E. LODGE, Curator of Chinese and Japanese Art. KOJIRO TOMITA, Assistant Curator Chinese and Japanese Art. FRANCIS STEWART KERSHAW, Keeper in the Dept. of Chinese and ANANDA K. COOMARASWAMY, Keeper of Indian and Mohammedan GEORGE A. REISNER, Curator of Egyptian Art. DOWS DUNHAM, Assistant Curator of Egyptian Art. JOHN B. POTTER, Keeper of Paintings. EDWIN JAMES HIPKISS, Keeper in the Dept. of Western Art. ASHTON SANBORN, Librarian. MRS. CHARLES W. TOWNSEND, Adviser in Textiles. GERTRUDE TOWNSEND, Assistant in charge of Textiles. FRANCES E. TURNER, Assistant Librarian in charge of Photographs. MARGARET L. WHEELER, Assistant in Instruction. MICHAEL MOORE, Supt. of Building and Grounds. For foundation, history and activities, see Vol. XI, pp. 142-4. Open daily, excepting the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. (Closing during November at 4:30; during December and January at 4; during February at 4:30.) Saturdays to 5 P.M. Sundays, 1 to 5 P.M. Admission free. Chartered 1870; present building opened 1909. Annual meeting third Thursday in January; Board meetings third Thursdays in April, July and October. Annual dues of subscribers, $10; membership, 2,807. During 1922 attendance was 330,243. The collections of the Museum cover the painting, sculpture and derivative arts of all times and countries. The collection of oriental art is the most important in the world under one roof; and with the library of books in Chinese and Japanese, and other facilities, offers an unexampled opportunity for the study of oriental culture. The collection of classical art is the foremost in America. The Egyptian_Department has a unique collection of Old Empire sculpture. The Print Department offers the best opportunity in America to study the history of the engraver's art. The Library contains 40.000 volumes, and the Photograph Collection 59,857 prints. The Photograph Department lends prints to schools, clubs and classes in the immediate vicinity of Boston. The Museum issues a bi-monthly Bulletin and Annual Report and Handbook of the Museum, and special catalogues and other publications. List of publications sent on application. A Leaflet Guide is issued in vestpocket size giving directions for reaching all the departments and containing a manifold Insert with a plan of the galleries, bringing the information of the Guide to the day of sale. The Registry of Public Art co-operates with the Municipal Art Commission. The School of the Museum contained 337 pupils in 1922. (See School Section.) The educational activities of the Museum during 1922 included Docent Service (gallery guidance) to 6,651 persons, Sunday afternoon talks (61 to 3,941 persons), conferences (3), lecture courses in the Museum (3), and summer story telling, 134 stories to 7,216 children, and in the public schools (37 lectures BOSTON, MASS. Museum of Fine Arts-Continued to 2,305 children). The Egyptian Traveling Exhibition was circulated in the public schools. Publications by officers and assistants of the Museum in 1922 included nineteen articles in current, scientific and other periodicals by nine authors. Acquisitions, 1922: Collection of Japanese paintings and other Japanese ritual implements, the gift of Dr. W. S. Bigelow; Indian bronzes and jewelry given by Dr. Denman Waldo Ross; collection of Chiriqui gold amulets; paintings by Anton Mauve, Sargent and Stuart; Madonna and Child and Angel, by Piero della Francesca; collection of paintings, the gift of Mrs. Hiram Hyde Logan; collection of paintings and sculpture, given by Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Sherman. BROOKLINE, MASS. FITZGERALD ART GALLERY Open week days, 9 A.M. to 12 M. and 1 to 5 P.M. Opened 1916. The art museum of Desmond FitzGerald, built and maintained by him on his estate, is open free to the public. It contains paintings by the early French impressionists Monet, Sisley, Pizarro, etc., and by contemporary Americans, including a large group of water colors by Dodge MacKnight. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge WILLIAM HAYES FOGG ART MUSEUM EDWARD W. FORBES.. College Yard, facing Broadway Director PAUL J. SACHS........ Asst. Director MARGARET E. GILMAN, Secretary Open free, week days 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Sundays, during the term, 12 M. to 5 p.M. During the summer vacation the museum is open on week days 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Saturdays, 9 A.M. to 1 P.M. Erected 1895; founded by Mrs. Elizabeth Fogg. The Museum is practically the laboratory of the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard; the regular lectures in the courses are held here and also free public lectures and exhibitions. The Museum contains about one hundred paintings of the early Byzantine, Italian, Flemish, French, Spanish, Dutch, English and German schools; small collection of important original drawings by old masters; water colors by masters of the English school, including Prout, Ruskin, Turner, Burne-Jones, and Blake; some American paintings; original works of ancient sculpture; small collection of Greek terra cottas, coins and pottery; collection of reproductions of Cretan works of art in the early middle and late Minoan periods; collection of reproductions of Mycenean art; a series of Gandhara sculptures; Cambodian heads; a notable collection of Romanesque sculptures; a collection of electrotype reproductions of French and Italian medals of the Renaissance; Oriental works of art, including pottery, Japanese prints, Chinese, Thibetan, Japanese and Korean paintings, and Persian and Indian paintings; small collection of textiles; the Gray and Randall collections of engravings which together include about 30,000 prints; and a collection of about 47,000 photographs and 14,000 slides. Exhibitions: Oct. 16 to Nov. 1, 1922—Japanese prints; Nov. 13 to Nov. 18— The Art of Stagecraft; Dec. 19 to Jan. 3, 1923-Studies by John S. Sargent for mural decorations in the Widener Library The "Sachs Research Fellowship in Fine Arts" was established in 1916 by Samuel Sachs. It gives $2,000 annually to any American man or woman Harvard University-Continued CAMBRIDGE, MASS. of proved ability, whether student or instructor, to enable that person to pursue in any part of the world advanced studies in the history, principles, or methods of the fine arts. Awarded 1923, to Donald M. Oenslager. The Society called "Friends of the Fogg Art Museum" is an informal organization of 328 members who contribute varying amounts for the purchase of works of art and for other Museum activities. Acquisitions, 1922-23, included paintings by Canaletto, Caravaggio, Holbein, Ochtervelt, School of Pietro Lorenzetti; an Italian painting of the XIII Century; an Indian painting; a French XVI Century Statue; a French Romanesque capital of the XII Century; water color drawings by Turner; drawings by Sargent, Giles and Warren; a Master E. S. print; Japanese prints, textiles. GERMANIC MUSEUM Adolphus Busch Hall KUNO FRANCKE, Honorary Curator Open, free, week days, holidays excepted, from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M., Sundays from 1 to 5 P.M. Established 1902. NELSON ROBINSON, JR., HALL G. H. EDGELL, Acting Dean, Faculty of Architecture Erected 1901, by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Robinson. It is the home of the School of Architecture and of the School of Landscape Architecture. It contains full-sized casts of important pieces of architecture, original drawings, pottery and bronzes and a collection of oriental textiles lent by the Fogg Museum. The libraries of the two schools are open daily, during term, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Saturdays, 9 A.M. to 1 P.M. About 5,500 volumes and 25,500 photographs. SEMITIC MUSEUM DAVID GORDON LYON, Honorary Curator Open, free, week days, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Sundays, 2 to 5 P.M. Collections illustrate the art, religion, literature and manners of Assyria, Babylonia, Phoenicia, Syria and Palestine. COLLECTION OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITIES Sever Hall GEORGE HENRY CHASE, Curator Open to the public by appointment. The objects may be taken out for study. There are several hundred objects of minor art, such as bronzes, vases and coins; also casts, photographs, squeezes and rubbings of inscriptions, and models of ancient utensils of archæological interest. NORTHAMPTON, MASS. HILLYER ART GALLERY Smith College, Northampton ALFRED VANCE CHURCHILL, Director of Gallery Founded 1881. Open, free, daily, 9 A.M. to 1 P.M., and 2 to 4 P.M.; Sundays, 2.30 to 4.30 P.M. Annual dues, $2.50 to $10; life, $100. Collections: Greek and Roman, medieval, Italian Renaissance and modern French works; Chinese and Japanese paintings, prints and pottery; American paintings and bronzes; drawings, engravings, etchings, lithographs; photographs, lantern slides, casts. Courses in history and interpretation of art. Studios for classes in drawing, painting and design. Lecture hall. Eight special exhibitions PITTSFIELD, MASS. BERKSHIRE ATHENÆUM AND MUSEUM HENRY COLT.... .President GEORGE H. TUCKER, Treasurer and WILLIAM H. SWIFT... Vice-President Chairman Art Committee HARLAN H. BALLARD, Librarian and Curator ANNIE F. CROSSMAN, Assistant in charge of Museum The Museum is open from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Sundays, 2 to 5 P.M. Admission free at all times. The annual meeting is held in June. It is also a public library and reading-room. Museum opened 1903. The exhibits include natural history, Indian relics, archæology, Greek and Roman curios, firearms and other weapons, Chinese and Japanese curios, pottery illustrations of local history, original sculpture, casts of classical sculpture; 138 paintings, a few being sixteenth century Italian works, some eighteenth century English, and the majority French and American of the nineteenth century. For foundation and development see Vol. XI, p. 156. Museum and picture gallery open, free, daily, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Sundays, 2 to 5 P.M.. Founded 1848. Monthly Board meetings, first Monday; annual in May. Annual dues, active, $3; contributing, $5; sustaining, $10; life, $75; membership, 725. Museum contains antiquarian and historical objects illustrating the life of the English settler, including three type rooms-a New England kitchen of 1750, a bedroom, and a parlor of 1800 and large collections of old furniture, china, war relics, tools, medals and coins, etc. On exhibition in the picture gallery are over two hundred paintings, including portraits of prominent persons by Stuart, Copley, Smibert, Trumbull, and others; about 50 miniatures; also engravings and art objects. In the rear of the Museum building is an annex to the Museum (built in 1918) containing collections of utensils, basketry, farm and craft implements and wagons; and a house built in Salem in 1684, furnished in the manner of that time. In the lean-to are shown an apothecary's shop (1825), a Salem cent shop (1840), and a weaving room. Beside it is an old-fashioned shoemaker's shop (about 1830), and near are Salem porches and architectural objects. SOUTH HADLEY, MASS. DWIGHT ART MEMORIAL Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley GERTRUDE S. HYDE, Chairman Department of Art and Archæology Erected in 1901 to house the equipment and collections of the department of art and archæology. It contains lecture rooms, studios, 3 galleries, and the art library of 2,500 books, 10,000 photographs, 1,500 lantern slides, 356 casts, and a large collection of old and modern works of art. Lectures on history of art have been given at Mt. Holyoke since 1874. Exhibitions are held. |