SCHOOL ART LEAGUE OF NEW YORK CITY 1910 1925 0UR6f FIFTEEN YEARS This report records fifteen years of ser- vice by the School Art League of New York City in the fos- tering of good taste and the conservation of talent among the pupils of the City's Public Schools 3?S James Parton Haney was the leading spirit of the School Art League and its success has been due chiefly to his vision, inspiration and guidance Portrait by Chester Beach presented to New York University OFFICERS MRS. JOHN W. ALEXANDER . Honorary President MRS. LAURENT OPPENHEIM First Vice-President FOREST GRANT Chairman Board of Trustees OTTO H. KAHN Treasurer FLORENCE N. LEVY Secretary Vice-Presidents Herbert Adams William H. Fox Frank L. Babbott Charles Dana Gibson Edwin H. Blashfield Cass Gilbert George Blumenthal William T. O'Shea Robert W. de Forest Edward Robinson Gustave Straubcnm'uller SYLVIA N. MINTZ, Asst. Secretary TRUSTEES 1925 MRS. JOHN W. ALEXANDER J. HERBERT LOW, Principal, Erasmus Hall High School HERMON A. MacNEIL, Sculptor. MRS. LAURENT OPPENHEIM HARRY W. WATROUS, President, National Academy Association 1926 MRS. SAMUEL T. R. CHENEY, Chairman, Art Department, Wash- ington Irving High School A. S. FR1SSELL, Chairman of Board, Fifth Avenue Bank EDMUND W. GREACEN, Painter FLORENCE N. LEVY, Director, Balti- more Museum of Art MRS. W. O. THOMPSON 1927 CHESTER BEACH, Sculptor M. ROSE COLLINS,ChairmanArt Depart- ment, George Washington High School FOREST GRANT, Director of Art in High Schools MRS. ST. CLAIR McKELWAY MRS. ERNEST PEIXOTTO COMMITTEES Class for Gifted Children — Mrs. John \V. Alexander Elementary Schools — Edith M. Loeffler Entertainment — Mrs. John W. Alexander Finance Committee — George Blumenthal, A. S. Fris sell, Florence N. Levy Junior High Schools — Grace E. Townley Lectures — Florence A. Newcomb . Medals and Prizes — Harry W. Watrous Membership — Mrs. Laurent Oppenheim, Mrs. Samuel T. R. Cheney Saturday Morning Classes — Forest Grant Scholarship — Mrs. Laurent Oppenheim School Decoration — - Mrs. W. O. Thompson The Art - in - Trades Club provides this medal. The design by Ceceri was selected through a competition held by the Beaux- Arts Institute of Design CO-OPERATING SOCIETIES American Federation of Arts American Museum of Natural His- tory Art Alliance of America Art Center Art-in-Trades Club Architectural League of New York Board of Education, New York City Brooklyn Museum Grand Central Galleries Metropolitan Museum of Art Municipal Art Society National Academy of Design New York School of Applied Design for Women New York School of Fine and Ap- plied Art New York Water Color Club Public Education Association Pratt Institute School of Fine and Applied Arts A miniature theatre with full lighting equipment designed and executed by Albert Bliss, one of the League scholarship winners FIFTEEN YEARS' WORK 199,271 attended lectures given at . Museums and exhibitions 198,640 children in classrooms and at Museums addressed by Docent 7,751 Fine Craftsmanship Medals in Elementary workshops 432 Art-in-Trades Club Med- als for design, High Schools 586 Alexander medals in second High School year 320 St. Gaudens medals in third High School year 261 Industrial Art Scholarships to boys and girls graduating from High School 85 pupils in three free drawing classes. on Saturdays 30 children (8 to 15), draw, paint, carve, etc., for free expression without models, on Saturdays If you think, this is worthwhile work^ become a member of the League This is one of the 350 workshops where the Haney Fine Craftsmanship Medal is awarded. Over 150 of the shop teachers have raised funds to endow their medal HISTORY The School Art League was organized in February, 191 1 , with JohnW. Alex- ander as its President, and James Parton Haney as Chairman of the Board of Managers. Ofthe original Board, Miss Florence N. Levy and Mrs. Laurent Oppenheim, are still Trustees. It is a development of the Art Com- mittee of the Public Education Asso- ciation which, between 1896 and 1910 spent over $11,000 in pictures and casts to decorate some twenty schools. The purpose of the School Art League is to foster the interests of art educa- tion in the public schools of the City of New York, and to secure to this end the co-operation of other socie- ties. It aids iff practical ways the training of our city's children in taste and in industrial art knowledge. Its officers serve without salary. The League was chartered by the Uni- versity ofthe State of New York, 1922. 11 Lecture time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Similar audiences, averaging 500, gather here eight Saturday mornings and ten in Brooklyn in the autumn and in the spring LECTURES Lectures have been an important part of the League's work since 1908 when Dr. Haney, as Advisor to the Art Cpmmitee of the Public Educa- tion Association, spoke in a base- ment room at the Metropolitan Museum to a score of children and a dozen teachers on "The Enjoy- ment of Pictures." The aim is to provide a background of knowledge to help in the appre- ciation of beauty. The method stressed is that of demonstrations by the speaker and participation by the audience. Many well known artists have been volunteer speakers. The program for the Autumn of 1925 includes 22 lectures: 8 at the Metropolitan Museum, 4 at the Brooklyn Museum and 4 at annual exhibitions for members and High School pupils (Junior members), and 6 for elementary pupils in Brooklyn 13 Medal designed by John Flanagan and en- dowed in memory of the League's first president, John W. Alexander. Also used for the Trophy competed for each term by High School teams MEDALS Haney Fine Craftsmanship medal, designed by Victor D. Brenner in 1909, awarded each term in each of the 350 Elementary workshops. Medal given by the Art-in-Trades Club, designed by Gaetano Ceceri in 1917, awarded for design in first year ot High School; 60 each year. John W. Alexander medal, designed by John Flanagan in 1915, awarded for drawing in second High School year; 60 each year. Saint- Gaudens medal for Fine Drafts- manship, designed by Chester Beach in 1917 and endowed by Mrs. Helen Foster Barnett, awarded in third High School year; about 54 each year. Alexander trophy awarded each term to the High School winning drawing contest; replicas to the five members of winning team. is •RATSQAiZ.0 A- Pen and ink drawing by a High School pupil in the Saturday morning class which meets at Washington Irving High School. The model is one of those lent by the Museum of Natural History FREE SATURDAY CLASSES Two classes in drawing, one from still life and the other from the draped model meet at Washington Irving High School, Borough of Manhattan. They offer oppor- tunities for boys and girls from some 30 High Schools to secure extra training. A similar class at Flushing High School, Borough of Queens, was established in the autumn of 1925. The teachers' salaries are paid by the League. Exhibition held at Art Alliance, May, 1925. A class for gifted children between 8 and 15 years of age, is held at Stuyvesant High School, Borough of Manhattan. They draw, paint, model, carve, etc., according to their individual desires without any model. The work was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May 1925. 17 Adaptation of a peasant costume to modern fashions by Ruth M. Willock, a League scholarship winner who is studying at Pratt Institute INDUSTRIAL ART SCHOLARSHIPS Twenty-seven industrial art scholar- ships were awarded during 1925. Each of these enables a talented boy or girl graduate of a City High School to have one year's training at a professional art school in some branch of applied art, chiefly com- mercial design, costume illustra- tion, or interior decoration. The students go to Pratt Institute, New York School of Fine and Ap- plied Art or to the New York School of Applied Design for Women. These scholarships are financed on a co-operative basis whereby each of these art schools makes a conces- sion in the fees and the remaining cost is defrayed half by entertainments and sales by the High School pupils and teachers and half by the School Art League. 19 Scholarships — Continued Seventeen of the 37 City High Schools are represented among the present scholarship students. The majority have made good and some are now earning large salaries. Sev- eral of the scholarships have been endowed (Bliss, Froehlich and Haney), others are supported through the co-operation of the Sorosis Art Committee, and by contributions of $25, $50 and $100 secured through the efforts of the Scholar- ship Committee. The students who have received scholarships from the School Art League have formed an Alumnae. They have raised funds to pay the tuition of several High School grad- uates. 20 NEW ACTIVITIES The influence of the School Art League is being extended into sections of Greater New York far from the Art Museums. A grant from Car- negie-Corporation makes this possible. A free Saturday morning class in drawing has been established at the Flushing High School, Queens. An- other will be formed at Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn. Talks for Junior High School pupils have been inaugurated at the Metro- politan Museum and for Senior High School pupils at the Brooklyn Mu- seum. Some are planned for the Bronx and at other locations. Pencil drawings by James P. Haney are circulated; ' other traveling ex- hibits are planned. Collections of 100 lantern slides each are being prepared for presentation to seven High Schools. 21 V A monotype by Walter Hall, fifteen years ot age. It was made entirely from memory in the Saturday morning class for gifted children held at Stuyvesant High School FINANCIAL Beginning in 1908 with ten members of the Committee each giving $i,the League now has $19,550 in endow- ment funds and total assets of $25,297.51. $ 2,500.00 — Bliss Scholarship Fund 3,050.00 — Frochlich Scholarship Fund 4,000.00 — Haney Scholarship Fund 500.00 — League Scholarship Fund 1,000.00 — Alexander Medal Fund 2,000.00 — Barnett Foundation, St. Gau- dens Medal Fund 500.00 — Charles Blount Memorial Medal Fund 4,000.00 — Haney Fine Craftsmanship Medal Fund 2,000.00 — General Maintenance fund (It is important that this be increased to $25,000) 5,747.51 — Balance in Banks June 20, 1925 $25,297.51 23 MEMBERS Donors Alexander, Mrs. John W. Bliss, Mrs. William H. Blount, Mrs. Charles Blumenthal, George Honorary *Alexander, John W. Beach, Chester *Brenner, Victor D. Flanagan, John *Haney, James P. Life Alexander, Mrs. John W. Levy, Florence N. *Levy, Mrs. Isabelle E. Moore, Mrs. Paul Thompson, Mrs. William O. Patrons Blount, Mrs. Charles Blumenthal, George Carnegie, Mrs. Andrew Cheney Brothers Frissell, A. S. Harkness, Edward S. Kahn, Otto H. Osborn, Mrs. William Church Pratt, George D. Schwartz, Morton L. Schwartz, A. Charles Stone, Ellen J. *Deceased 24 Subscribers Carpenter, Agnes Crane, Mrs. W. Murray Griffith, Susan D. Henderson, Mrs. E. C. Lowinson, Mrs. Louis Oppenheim, Mrs. Laurent Sorosis Art Committee Thompson, Mrs. William O. Vogel, Mrs. Martin Contributors Abraham and Straus Bing, Alexander M. Blum, Albert Cannon, Mrs. Henry W. deForest, Robert W. Frank, Beatrice L. Gerry, Mrs. Robert Livingston Horch, Louis L. Levy, Edgar A. Lewisohn, Adolph Smith, Mrs. J. Henry Stern, Mrs. Benjamin Tiffany, Louis C. Wise, Mrs. Edmund Annual Members Agar, John G. Alexander, Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, Mrs. J. W., Jr. Altschul, Mrs. Charles 25 Regular Members — Continued Ash, Mrs. Mark Babbott, Frank L. Baerwald, Mrs. Paul Barrows, Louise Baruch, Benjamin Bayer, Mrs. E. S. Beckec, Mrs. Frederick M. Beebe, Dee Beer, Mrs. George Bernheim, Mrs. Isaac J. Bernheimer, Mrs. Charles L. Bernheimer, Rosie Bier, Mrs. Sylvan Blashfield, Edwin H. Bleyer, Mrs. Alfred Bloch, Mrs. Henry M. Bloomingdale, Mrs. Lewis M. Blum, Mrs. Edward C. Blumenthal, Mrs. Sidney Bondy, Regina Bondy, William Borg, Mrs. Sidney C. Boskowicz, Florence Bosworth, Mrs. Welles Browne, Anita F. Budd, F. W. Budworth, W. S. Carlebach, Mrs. E. Clarke, E. A. S. Clarke, Mrs. E. A. S. 26 Regular Members — Continued Clarke, Thomas B. Coffin, W. S. Collins, M. Rose Dakin, Mrs. Henry D. Da vies, Mrs. J. C. Davis, Mary R. DeForesc, Mrs. Robert W. DeYoung, Mrs. Arthur Draper, Martha L. Drummond, I. Wyman Ehrich, Walter Eisman, Max Ellis, Mrs. Lawrence E. Emmet, Lydia Field Falco, Marie C. Fatman, Mrs. Morris Feldman, Mrs. S. J. Finley, Mrs. John H. Folger, Mrs. H. C. French, Daniel C. Fridenberg, Robert Friedsam, Michael Fries, Mrs. Albert Fries, Emilie Fry, John Garritt, Mrs. Albert W. Girls High School Goldman, Mrs. Julius Greenberg, Morris Grossman, Mrs. Edward A. 27 ~f{egular Members— Continued Guggenheim, Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, Simon Hamilton, Alma Hammond, Mrs. John Henry Hare, Mrs. John I. Hare, William H. Hirsch, Mrs. Richard Hitchcock, Mrs. Ripley Huddleston, Mrs. J. H. Humphreys, Dr. Alexander C. Isidor, Joseph S. Jacob, Mrs. E. Jacobson, Mrs. Charles A. Jones, Francis C. Kaufmann, Mrs. J. Knoedler, Roland F. Kohn, Mrs. Emil W. Lawler, Mrs. Thomas B. Leckie, Mrs. John Lehman, Mrs. Arthur Lehman, Mrs. Philip Levi, Mrs. Albert Levy, Florence N. Loines, Mrs. Stephen B. McAnemy, George McKelway, Mrs. St. Clair McMahon, Mrs. John B. MacNeil, Hermon A. Marin, Mrs. John C. Mayer, Mrs. Adolph 28 ~Rcgular Members — Continued Meinhard, Mrs. Morton H. Meczger, Fannie Migel, Mrs. M. C. Morse, Alice L. Murphy, Frances O'Brien, Mrs. Dennis F. Oppenheim, Nellie Osborn, William Church Parrish, Samuel L. Parsons, Frank Alvah Peck, Mrs. Grace W. Peixotto, Mrs. Ernest Pentlarge, Mrs. Frank Pollak, Mrs. Francis D. Pond, Ellen J. Popper, Mrs. E. S. Pratt Institute Pyne* Mrs. Moses Taylor Robinson, Edward Price, Mrs. J. M. Putnam, Mrs. William A. Reckford, Mrs. Louis C. Rossbach, Mrs. Leopold Rumsey, Mrs. Charles Carey Sachs, Dr. B. Schafer, Mrs. Myron Schiff, Mrs. Jacob Scott, Stevenson Shaurman, Mrs. Ethelyn Fcnner Siegman, Samuel M. 29 Regular Members — Continued- Smith, Marion C. Stanfield, Mrs. Marion Barr Stone, Annie Straubemuller, Dr. Gustavc Strauss, Mrs. Daisy Sutro, Mrs. Lionel Upright, Mrs. H. R., Jr. Villard, Mrs. Henry Warren, George F., Jr. Warren, Mrs. George F., Jr. Watrous, Harry W. Wearne, Harry Wearne, Mrs. Harry Weitling, William W. White, Mrs. John Jay Wilkie, John L. Wilsey, Frank D. Winthrop, Grenville L. Wolff, Mrs. Lewis S. Zabriskie, Edward C. The Teacher Membership of the League numbers 302 The Junior Membership of the League numbers 8,237 30 CLASSES OF MEMBERS Donors — who have contrib- uted $500 or more 4 Honorary Members 5 Life Members — a single pay- ment of $100 which is in- vested 5 Patrons, annual dues $100. . 12 Subscribers — annual dues $50 9 Contributors — annual dues $25 14 Members — annual dues $5 . . 145 Teachers — annual dues $1 . . . 302 Juniors who pay dues of 10 cents 8237 4 A cordial invitation to become members is extended to all who believe in the value of the work done by the School Art League. Annual dues should be sent to the School Art League, 599 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 31 Haney Fine Craftsmanship Medal awarded each term in each of the 350 Elementary workshops OH <- \^o31