International studio (26.1905)

CHOOLS AND INSTITUTIONS.
WiTH the possible exception of the meet-
ing in i8yy, which resulted in the secession
of members to form the Society of Ameri-
can Artists, the most protracted and interesting
meeting of the Academy of Design, was that
recently held in New York, which resulted in a
two-thirds vote in favor of adopting the plan and
agreement of Columbia University to co-operate
with the Academy in the founding of great art
schools.
The project under consideration was that made
by President Butler, of Columbia, for the establish-
ment of a school of fine arts at the University, and
formally imparted by him to the Academy in
January. In this communication President Butler
announced that the trustees of the University had
decided to reorganize the School of Architecture,
to establish chairs in the history and criticism of
the fine arts and to provide for a building, if the
Academy were willing to combine its courses with
those established and those to be established by
Columbia. Funds for the building were to be
raised by public subscription. The proposition
was submitted to the Council of the Academy and
approved by it after long deliberation. The vote
of the Academicians upon this report at the recent
meeting stood twenty-nine in its favour and nine
against, seven being present but not voting. The
opposition to the project was inspired by the fear
that the Academy would lose its individuality in
subordination to the University, and would prac-
tically lose its own School of Design. Representa-
tions were made to the effect that the Academy was
not to be assimilated to the University or merged
with it, but was to preserve its own identity.

The resolution adopted provides that the Univer-
sity is to give the plot known as South Field, at the
corner of Broadway and One Hundred and Six-
teenth Street, contingent upon the raising of certain
funds; that the name of the National Academy of
Design shall be preserved on the building by a
suitable tablet; that there shall be established a
faculty of fine arts, consisting of the University
president, the Academy president, and the pro-
fessors of the school, and further that the professors
shall be selected by the trustees of the University,
with the approval of the council of the Academy.
Pending the completion of the project the Academy
will rebuild the structure in One Hundred and
Ninth Street, recently damaged by fire. No action
was taken to bring about reunion between the
Academy and the Society of American Artists,
though it was thought that negotiations to such an
effect were in progress. In the election of officers
and academicians, Charles F. McKim, the archi-
tect, and Henry Wolfe, the wood carver, were
chosen as associates, their selection marking the
first representation of these branches in the Acade-
my. The new officers are: President, Frederick
Dielman; vice-president, Herbert Adams; cor-
responding secretary, H. W. Watrous; recording
secretary, Will H. Low; treasurer, Lockwood
DeForest.
A NEW summer school of art will open on the
twelfth of this month at Washington Crossing,
N. J., to be known as the River School. A class in
composition is announced, together with classes in
painting conducted by Richard B. Farley, a pupil
of Whistler; a class in design conducted by Miss
Myra Burr Edson, instructor in the School of
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