Endowments; Industrial arts--Study and teaching; Decorative arts--Study and teaching; New York (N.Y.); School Art League of New York City; Haney, James Parton, 1869-1923
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1886 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 81, 85
Note
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James P. Haney
The School Art League was founded in 1911 to foster the interests of art education in the public schools of the City of New York and to offer opportunities to pupils, teachers, and the public for the study and discussion of art. Its memberships in Jun e, 1922, numbered 4,114 Junior Members, high-school pupils who pay ten cents a term; 351 Teacher Members who pay $1 a year; and 224 Annual Members who contribute from $5 to $100 toward the work of the League. The work of the League includes provisions for lectures to public school pupils and teachers, the award of a number of art school scholarships, the conferring of medals for excellent work in drawing, design and craftsmanship to public school pupils, and maintenance of Saturday classes in drawing. The lectures of 1921-22 had a total attendance of 22,072. Eight of these were given in the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturdays for junior and other members. Each of the industrial art scholarships 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 commercial design, costume illustration or interior decoration. The students go to Pratt Institute or to the New York School of Fine and Applied Art. These scholarships are financed on a cooperative basis whereby both of these art schools make a concession in their 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. Nineteen of the twenty-seven city high-schools are represented among the present thirty-five scholarship students. During the ten years that the League has awarded these scholarships, more than 150 boys and girls have been aided. The majority of these have made good and some are now earning large salaries. Several of the scholarships have been endowed, others are supported through the cooperation of the Sorosis Art Committee, the Study Circle, and by contributions through the efforts of the Scholarship Committee." [SOURCE: Richards, Charles Russell. Art in Industry: Being the Report of an Industrial Art Survey Conducted Under the Auspices of the National Society for Vocational Education and the Department of Education of the State of New York. 1922, pp. 468-469. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=SQUEAAAAYAAJ. Accessed 12 Oct. 2018.] "James Parton Haney 1869-1923 First Director of Art, Public Schools of New York City, 1896-1923... James Parton Haney was the leading spirit of the School Art League and its success has been due chiefly to his vision, inspiration... HISTORY The School Art League was organized in February, 1911, with John W. Alexander as its President, and James Parton Haney as Chairman of the Board of Managers..." [SOURCE: School Art League of New York City. School Art League of New York City: 1910-1925. 1925, pp. 2, 11. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/schoolartleagueo00scho. Accessed 12 Oct. 2018.]