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ARTS AND CRAFTS LECTURESSource: Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Art, Vol. 8, No. 2 (APRIL, 1914), p. 36Published by: Detroit Institute of ArtsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41934898 .
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36 BULLETIN OF THE DETROIT MUSEUM OF ART
This has been a rare enlightenment to the people of Detroit, whose ap- proval is attested by the attendance which packed the Auditorium to ca- pacity Sunday after Sunday.
Coupled with the lectures have been programmes of concert music, in which the conservatories and groups of musicians have participated and these were on an equally high plane with the lectures. On another page is given a schedule of the events during the last quarter and it is a very creditable summary to present.
The Trustees of the Detroit Mu- seum of Art desire to acknowledge their indebtedness to Mr. William C. Weber, Chairman of the Committee on Sunday lectures, to whose zealous work the success of the Sunday pro- grammes is attributable and to the following:
Charles K. Fiedler, William B. Straton, Judson Smith, George T. Hamilton, Professor Wilhelm Miller, Abram Ray Tyler, Francis L. York, M. A.; Marshall Pease, N. J. Corey, Arthur K. Peck, George Shortland Kempton, Henry Matheys, Mrs. J. L. Parke, Miss Arbutus Wolfe, Mrs. Es- telle Reid, Signor Giuseppe Bartolot- ta, Miss Marion Peck, Miss Mary Thompson, Miss Catherine Miller, Miss Dorothy Kemp, Signor Angelo Villa, Madam Antona, Mrs. Howard A. Field, Miss Alice Whitbeck, Mrs. James Tyre, Miss Ruth Fraser, Miss Jeanette Fraser, Miss Marie Bising, Boris L. Ganapol, Miss Ada Lillian Gordon, Ezri Alfred Bertrand, Mrs. Susan Brownelle Rathbourne, Miss Marian Willis Tyler, Miss Elizabeth Ruhlman, Miss Louise Beaumont Snyder, Dr. Charles J. Cragg, Miss Eva Woodward Lord, Mrs. Marshall Pease and Miss Theodosia Eldridge.
It is a source of satisfaction to have this array of talent co-operate in the altruistic way they are doing in the Museum plans and it speaks
well for the success of the art cen- tre movement if all the art interests of the city will work together for it.
ARTS AND CRAFTS LECTURES. The Society of Arts and Crafts in
their free lecture course this year presented on March 14th Professor Wilhelm Miller of the University of Illinois, who spoke on "Design in American Landscape Architecture as Shown in American Gardens." Pro- fessor Miller's lecture treated largely of the Prairie School of Landscape Gardening, in which he advocated many principles which were entirely practicable for beautifying highways and teaching the people a greater love of the country. He advocated the use of the native flora and fauna of each State as the motif of that State and in beautiful colored views he showed how the idea could be applied at no great expense.
Two lectures were given by Pro- fessor Huger Elliott, Supervisor of Education and Director of the School of Design at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. On March 23rd Mr. Elliott took up the subject of the "Amer- ican City and Its Village Dress - Can the Necessary Be Made Beautiful?" In it he said many things directly ap- plicable to the beautifying of De- troit and if the various subjects ad- vocated by him in the beautifying of a city were applied as the city grows beyond the village stage it would be greatly improved in appearance.
On the 24th Mr. Elliott dwelt on Architecture and the Allied Arts, speaking particularly on the function of buildings and taking up in con- junction with them mural painting, sculpture and stained glass windows. His point was well taken that these allied arts should be in keeping with the scheme of building in order to make the building a unity.
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