DOI issue:
No. 214 (December 1914)
DOI article:McCauley, Lena M.: A Western renaissance
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43457#0126
A Western Renaissance
highways and byways. The art of music is heard
in concerts and Christmas carols, and the art of
costume, the drama and the dance with picture
building in pageant plays, such as that of Benja-
min West, given not so long ago in the Sculpture
Court under the auspices of the arts section of the
Women’s Club. The leading Indiana painters,
William Forsyth, J. E. Bundy, T. C. Steele, Otto
Stark and Otis Adams and their associates, have
established a distinctive local art organization.
money, which was to be expended at the discretion
of the Board of Education, for an art museum and
paintings. This fact gives the Hackley Art Gal-
lery a unique place among art museums, and when
Raymond Wyer was appointed its director in 1912
he grasped the possibilities of the museum as a
power in education in that section on the east
coast of Lake Michigan. Funds were spent to
begin a worthy permanent collection of paintings,
both of Old Masters and significant works of living
VISTA IN BLACKSTONE HALL, ART INSTITUTE, CHICAGO
While giving exhibitions for Indianapolis, they are
widely known in the travels of the Society of
Western Artists, and in the national exhibitions of
painters of the United States. Harold Haven
Brown, the director of the John Herron Art
Institute, went from the University of Chicago to
aid the progressive work then in its beginnings.
Hackley Art Gallery of Muskegon, Michigan,
Raymond Wyer, director, occupies an influential
position. The late Charles Hackley, a wealthy
citizen of Muskegon, devoted to the cause of
education, founded technical schools and gave the
men. The active service to the community was
set forth by the director, who said in an annual
address that there was an art in living, and it was
the intention of the Hackley Art Gallery authori-
ties to endeavour “ to develope that discrimination
which leads to a love for those things which tend
to help a community to live, not only nobly but
gracefully as well.” The children of the little city
of Muskegon believe that the museum is theirs and
that it is their privilege to attend the lectures and
exhibitions. The dub women take a deep interest
in the art movement, and the whole State of
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highways and byways. The art of music is heard
in concerts and Christmas carols, and the art of
costume, the drama and the dance with picture
building in pageant plays, such as that of Benja-
min West, given not so long ago in the Sculpture
Court under the auspices of the arts section of the
Women’s Club. The leading Indiana painters,
William Forsyth, J. E. Bundy, T. C. Steele, Otto
Stark and Otis Adams and their associates, have
established a distinctive local art organization.
money, which was to be expended at the discretion
of the Board of Education, for an art museum and
paintings. This fact gives the Hackley Art Gal-
lery a unique place among art museums, and when
Raymond Wyer was appointed its director in 1912
he grasped the possibilities of the museum as a
power in education in that section on the east
coast of Lake Michigan. Funds were spent to
begin a worthy permanent collection of paintings,
both of Old Masters and significant works of living
VISTA IN BLACKSTONE HALL, ART INSTITUTE, CHICAGO
While giving exhibitions for Indianapolis, they are
widely known in the travels of the Society of
Western Artists, and in the national exhibitions of
painters of the United States. Harold Haven
Brown, the director of the John Herron Art
Institute, went from the University of Chicago to
aid the progressive work then in its beginnings.
Hackley Art Gallery of Muskegon, Michigan,
Raymond Wyer, director, occupies an influential
position. The late Charles Hackley, a wealthy
citizen of Muskegon, devoted to the cause of
education, founded technical schools and gave the
men. The active service to the community was
set forth by the director, who said in an annual
address that there was an art in living, and it was
the intention of the Hackley Art Gallery authori-
ties to endeavour “ to develope that discrimination
which leads to a love for those things which tend
to help a community to live, not only nobly but
gracefully as well.” The children of the little city
of Muskegon believe that the museum is theirs and
that it is their privilege to attend the lectures and
exhibitions. The dub women take a deep interest
in the art movement, and the whole State of
XLIII