DOI issue:
Nr. 175 (September, 1911)
DOI article:Fosdick, J. William: The exhibition of the Municipal Art Society of New York
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43447#0241
Exhibition of the Municipal Art Society of New York
THE MAINE MONUMENT DESIGNED BY H. VAN BUREN MAGONIGLE
SCULPTURE BY ATTILIO PICCIRILLI
spirited citizens to support the Municipal Art
Society in its endeavor to remove the monstrous
advertising signs in this circle, which are an insult
to the memory of Columbus and to the art of
Messrs. Magonigle and Piccirilli. Mr. Magonigle
also shows elaborate plans of the proposed Robert
Fulton water-front memorial at Riverside Drive
and 114th and 116th Streets.
The preliminary designs by Messrs. Trowbridge
& Livingston of the east facade of the Museum of
Natural History show a much simpler, therefore
better and by far more imposing, arrangement than
that of the existing many-towered south facade.
Few architects have had greater opportunities
for unhampered artistic expression than that
offered Mr. Grosvenor Atterbury in the Forest
Hills Gardens, Sage Foundation project. One has
but to study his unique drawings for a few mo-
ments to see that Mr. Atterbury has “made
good” artistically and, we believe, practically.
The Municipal Art Society is presenting the
police department with two hero tablets, upon
which will be inscribed the names of those who
have lost their lives in the performance of duty.
The society is endeavoring to institute a uni-
form system of house and street numbering, such
as is employed in Paris. It is introducing a sys-
tem for the decoration of schoolrooms with photo-
graphic enlargements, casts, busts, etc.
It is supplying free lectures upon the subject of
municipal art for schools and clubs. It is endeav-
oring through its advertising committee to amend
the tax law so that property carrying advertising
signs would be heavily assessed, hoping by these
means to stop all flagrant cases of roof and wall
advertising. J. W. F.
The large painting by John W. Alexander, en-
titled Sunlight, purchased by the Friends of
American Art, from the autumn exhibition of the
Art Institute of Chicago last year, received the
gold medal at the international exhibition of the
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. This is the high-
est honor of the Carnegie exhibition, and the
medal carries with it a cash prize of fifteen hundred
dollars. Three other pictures purchased by the
Friends from the same exhibit are in the American
section of the Exposition at Rome—Apple Blos-
soms, by Louis Betts; Hills of Byram, by Daniel
Garber, and Christmas Eve, by Van der Weyden.
HEAD FOR MURAL
DECORATION
BY ELLA CONDIE LAMB
THE MAINE MONUMENT DESIGNED BY H. VAN BUREN MAGONIGLE
SCULPTURE BY ATTILIO PICCIRILLI
spirited citizens to support the Municipal Art
Society in its endeavor to remove the monstrous
advertising signs in this circle, which are an insult
to the memory of Columbus and to the art of
Messrs. Magonigle and Piccirilli. Mr. Magonigle
also shows elaborate plans of the proposed Robert
Fulton water-front memorial at Riverside Drive
and 114th and 116th Streets.
The preliminary designs by Messrs. Trowbridge
& Livingston of the east facade of the Museum of
Natural History show a much simpler, therefore
better and by far more imposing, arrangement than
that of the existing many-towered south facade.
Few architects have had greater opportunities
for unhampered artistic expression than that
offered Mr. Grosvenor Atterbury in the Forest
Hills Gardens, Sage Foundation project. One has
but to study his unique drawings for a few mo-
ments to see that Mr. Atterbury has “made
good” artistically and, we believe, practically.
The Municipal Art Society is presenting the
police department with two hero tablets, upon
which will be inscribed the names of those who
have lost their lives in the performance of duty.
The society is endeavoring to institute a uni-
form system of house and street numbering, such
as is employed in Paris. It is introducing a sys-
tem for the decoration of schoolrooms with photo-
graphic enlargements, casts, busts, etc.
It is supplying free lectures upon the subject of
municipal art for schools and clubs. It is endeav-
oring through its advertising committee to amend
the tax law so that property carrying advertising
signs would be heavily assessed, hoping by these
means to stop all flagrant cases of roof and wall
advertising. J. W. F.
The large painting by John W. Alexander, en-
titled Sunlight, purchased by the Friends of
American Art, from the autumn exhibition of the
Art Institute of Chicago last year, received the
gold medal at the international exhibition of the
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. This is the high-
est honor of the Carnegie exhibition, and the
medal carries with it a cash prize of fifteen hundred
dollars. Three other pictures purchased by the
Friends from the same exhibit are in the American
section of the Exposition at Rome—Apple Blos-
soms, by Louis Betts; Hills of Byram, by Daniel
Garber, and Christmas Eve, by Van der Weyden.
HEAD FOR MURAL
DECORATION
BY ELLA CONDIE LAMB