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International Art Congress

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR
THE ADVANCEMENT OF DRAWING
AND ART TEACHING
BY FLORENCE N. LEVY
The Third International Congress on Art Edu-
cation meets in London August 3d to 8th. The
first Congress of this kind was held in Paris during
the Exposition of 1900; the second, in Berne in
1904, was attended by 800 members, representing
2 x nations. There the art educational exhibits con-
tributed by Boston, Springfield, Teachers College
and Pratt Institute of New York, the Massachu-
setts Normal Art School at Hyannis and others
won for the United States a strong position. In
fact, they made such a favorable impression that
the exhibits were lent, upon request, to several
foreign cities and States.
A permanent committee was formed in 1904 to
insure the continuity of the work from one Congress
to the next, the plan being to hold these meetings
every fourth year. The American Committee for
this Third International Congress on Art Education
consists of James Hall, Chairman, Director of the
Art Department of the Ethical Culture School, New
York City; Charles M. Carter, Director of Art
Education in Denver, Colo., and William Wood-
ward, Professor of Art, Newcomb College, Tulane
University, New Orleans, La.
The Advisory Committee comprises Solon P.
Davis, of Hartford, Conn., who is chairman of the
cooperating committee of one hundred; Mrs. Ma-
tilda E. Riley, St. Louis, Mo.; Miss Wilhelmina
Seegmiller, Indianapolis, Ind.; Henry T. Bailey,
secretary, North Scituate, Mass.; Cheshire L.
Boone, treasurer, Montclair, N. J.; J. Frederick
Hopkins, Baltimore, Md.; Leslie W. Miller, Phila-
delphia, Pa.; Walter S. Perry, Brooklyn, N. Y.;
Walter Sargent, Boston, Mass.; James Parton
Haney, chairman subcommittee on publication,
New York City.
The honorary president is Elmer Ellsworth
Brown, United States Commissioner of Education
at Washington, and there are a number of honorary
vice-presidents, among whom may be mentioned
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia
ETniversity; Sir C. Purdon Clarke, director of the
Metropolitan Museum; Frederick Dielman, presi-
dent of the National Academy of Design; Daniel C.
French; Halsey C. Ives, director of the St. Louis
Museum; John La Farge; Dr. William H. Max-
well, superintendent of the New York Public
Schools; Charles F. McKim, architect; J. Pierpont
Morgan, president of the Metropolitan Museum;

Frederic B. Pratt, director of Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, and Henry Walters, of Baltimore.
The official invitation for the United States to
participate in this Congress came through the Brit-
ish Foreign Office. The Department of the In-
terior then appointed Charles M. Carter, of Denver,
and Henry Turner Bailey, of North Scituate, Mass.,
as official delegates from the United States. They


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