Indianapolis Children and the Art MuseumSource: Art and Progress, Vol. 5, No. 5 (Mar., 1914), p. 186Published by:Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20561121 .

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LION AND LIONESS ANNA V. HYATr

A SMALL BRONZE SHOWN IN A SPECIAI EXHIBITION OF WORKS IIY ANNA VAUGHllAN 11YATT * SCIID WAS 1110I) AT 0R1IIIAMNS. NSEW YORK. TIlE LATTER PART OF JANUARY. THI& EXHIBITION COMPRISED FORTY-THREE PIECES. ALL ANIMAIL. RANGING IN DIMENSIONS FROM A Fl LL SIZE JAGUAR SO A TORTOISE PAlIER WEIGHT. MISS HYATT'S WORK IS VERY Sl'IRITED AND ESSENTIALLIY PL'ASTIC. IT IS VIRILE A^NI O)RIGINLV

INDIANAPOLIS The John Herron Art CHILDREN Institute is doing an im

AND THE ART portant work among the MUSEUM school children in In

dianapolis. From Sep tember 1 st to January 1 st there was a total attendance of 4,274 children and teachers at the Art Institute. These children came in groups and classes for general visiting and specific work. Dur ing the same period there were five teachers' meetings held at the Institute and sixty-four lectures or talks given which were open to school children and teachers, forty-nine at the Institute and fifteen at different school buildings.

In addition to the permanent and loan collections of the Institute twenty spe cial exhibitions were arranged, ten in the children's room, planned to aid the work in the schools, and ten in the other galleries of the Museum. Twelve groups of mounts and twelve frames of textiles, comprising fifteen exhibits, were ar ranged and sent out to the school build ings. Furthermore, there have been classes of special instruction in the fine arts for school children and teachers and special scholarships granted.

The Bulletin of the Art Association is sent regularly to each teacher and a leaf let announcing Museum talks to school

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children was distributed to each pupil of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. This work will be carried on and extended.

A series of illustrated stories on "Great Heroes" is now being given on Satur day afternoons. The children are in vited to bring their parents with them for these talks.

A special evening was set aside in Januarv for the students of the Short ridge High School to visit the Institute as the classes of this school prohibited day time attendance.

At the instance of the CITY AND

conference of repre STATE ART sentatives of Art Com

COMMISSIONS missions held in New York last Mlay, a pamphlet has been pre pared containing suggestions as to the organization and scope of such commis sions. The suggestions are based upon the experience of a number of cities and the pamiphlet is intended to answer nu

merous inquiries on the part of those pro posing to organize commissions in places where they do not now exist, and to fur ther the establishment of such commis sions. Two forms of. statutes are pre sented, applicable to large and small cities, and also a form for the creation of

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