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NSl'fTUTIS.• Ot'• SHOWING SCHOOLROOMS 1../"f THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT JUNE I, 1907-JUNE I, 1908 CONTENTS TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS 13 REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 17 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 33 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 37 LisT OF ExHIBITIONS OF 1 907-8 38 LIST OF LECTURES, I 907-8 43 LisT OF PuBLICATIONs, I 907-8 so REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN 58 LisT OF AcQUISITIONs TO MusEUM 64 LisT OF AcQUISITIONS TO LIBRARY 69 BY-LAWS 83 FoRM oF BEQUEST 89 LisT oF HoNORARY MEMBERs 90 LisT oF GovERNING LIFE M}:MBERS 91 LisT OF GovERNING MEMBERS 92 LIST OF LIFE MEMBERS 95 LIST OF ANNUAL MEMBERS 100 II Trustees of the Art lnstitu te of Chicago 1908-9 EDWARD E. AYER JOHN J. GLESSNER ADOLPHUS C. BARTLETT FRANK W. GUNSAULUS JOHN C. BLACK CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON CHAUNCEY J. BLAIR BRYAN LATHROP CT~ARENCE BUCKING HAM FRANK G. LOGAN EDWARD B. BUTLER R. HALL McCORMICK DANIEL H. BURNHAM JOHN J . MITCHELL CLYDE M. CARR SAMUEL M. NICKERSON CHARLES DEERING MARTIN A. RYERSON HENRY H. GE'r'rY HOWARD VAN D. SHAW ALBERT A. SPRAGUE Ex Otficio !"RED A. BUSSE, HENRY G. FOREMAN, Mayor President South Park Commissioners WALTER H. WILSON, WILLIAM BEST, Comptroller Auditor South Park Commissioners Officers CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON, MARTIN A. RYERSON, President Vice-President ERNEST A. HAMILL, WILLIAM A. ANGELL, rl'reasurer Auditor WILLIAM M. ·R. FRENCH, NEWTON H. CARPEN'r ER, Director Secretary Executive Committee CHARLES L. HU'l'CHINSON JOHN C. BLACK MARTIN A. RYERSON ALBERT A. SPRAGUE FRANK G. LOGAN HOWARD VAN D. SHAW CLARENCE BUCKINGHAM Art Committee CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON BRYAN LATHROP MARTIN A. RYERSON R. HALL McCORMICK HOWARD VAN D. SHAW FREDERIC C. BARTLETT T HE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO was incorporated May 24, 18 79, for the "founding and maintenance ot schools of art and design, the formation and exhibition ot collections of objects of art, and the cultivation and extension of the arts of design by any appropriate means." The Museum building upon the Lake Front, first occupied in I 893, is open to the public every week day from 9 to 5, Sundays from I to 5. Admission is free to members and their families at all times, and free to all upon Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. The Art School, in the same building, includes departments of Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Illustration, Decorative Designing, Normal Instruction, and Architecture. All friends of the Art Institute are invited to become members. Annual Members pay a fee of ten dollars a year. Life Members pay one hundred dollars and are thenceforth exempt from dues. Governing Members pay one hundred dollars upon election and twenty-five dollars a year thereafter. Upon the payment of four hundred dollars Governing Members become Governing Life Mem- bers and are thenceforth exempt from dues . All receipts from life memberships are invested and the income only expended. All members are entitled, with their families and visiting friends, to admission · to all exhibitions, receptions, public lectures, and en- tertainments given by the Art Institute, and to the use of the Ryerson reference library upon art. 14 CHOIR GALLERY OF THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. ETIENNE OF LIMOGES Blackstone Collection of Architectural Casts, Art Institute Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Trustees. CHICAGO, JuNE 2, I9o!L 'To the Governing Members of the Art Institute of Chicago: The year just closed has been on the whole one of prosperity, although it has not been marked by any very striking events. The business accounts of the Art Institute are kept under two heads, the museum and the school. The receipts applicable to operating expenses of the museum, derived from the South Park tax, door fees, catalogue ~ales and Fullerton Hall receipts, have amounted to $74,002.43,. while the operating expenses (including library and Fullerton Hall) have been $83,558.92-a deficit of $9,556.49. This deficit has been met by receipts from memberships unappropriated for other purposes. The receipts from memberships of various classes have been $28,444.3 I; and sundry receipts, from telephone, lunch-room, and various sources, have amounted to $I0,30I.07, a total of $38,745.38. The corresponding expenses, for building additions ($I 2,569.0 I) telephone, lunch-room, accessions of museum and library, and securing 17 !8 THE ART INSTITUT!t OF CHICAGO new members, have been $27,76 1.47, a surplus of $ I 0,98 3·9 I. This leaves a balance 111 the museum department, after paying the deficit in operating expenses mentioned above, of $1,42 7.42. In the school department, the receipts, from tuition fees, locker fees, matriculation fees and sundry sources have been $77,958.7 I, while the expend itures, for salaries, models, heat, light, janitor service, accessions, etc., have been $74,136.68, a surplus of $3,822.03. The income from endowments, much of which is restricted, has been $12,702.74, of which $ ro,o8o.I9 has been expended for paintings for the galleries, books for the library, scholarships, prizes , and the Scammon lectures, leaving a balance un expend ed of $2,622.55. During the year the total expended for building im- provements, including the Hutchinson and Munger galleries, has been $24,324.69. Upon June I, 1 907, the invested funds were During the last fiscal year, they have been increased by the following receipts:- Payment on account of W. M oses Willner Bequest $ 20,000 30 Life Memberships 1 Governing Life Membership So that the present amount ofinvested funds is REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES The indebtedness oft he Art Institu te June 1, 1907, was$ 176,977 . I o This has been redu~ed by receipts from the sale of real estate, bequeathed by Catherine M. White 16,ooo.oo And by a payment from the general funds of 4,714.60 So that the total liabilities now are 1 56, z 52. 5o Various improvements and one or two small additions to the building have been made during the last year. The outside building at the northeast corner of the museum, 70 x 54 feet, used for carpenter-shop, plaster-shop, etc., was removed and replaced by a one-story and basement building of fire-proof construction, which was finished in December. This adds to the safety of the building, accommodates the working force, and gives us three ad- ditional sky-lighted school-rooms, Nos. 63, 64, and 6 5. which are much needed. The plan of the ground floor shows the position of the numerous school-rooms, which are so situated as not to be seen by the ordinary visitor to the museum. They occupy not only the greater part of the basement of the main building but also a low sky-lighted building, 400 feet long and varying in width from 35 to 50 feet, behind the main building. And it should be added that the class-rooms for architectural students, accommodating about one hundred young men, are in the top of the building, and that classes often work in the sculpture galleries. An additional architectural class-room, So x 1 o feet, was constructed under the sky-light of the south wing last autumn. 20 THE AR'l' lNS'l'I'l'U'l'E OF CHICAGO During the summer of 1907, in the ten school-rooms numbered 73 to 82, the wooden floors were removed and were replaced with cement, of a neat red and gray pattern. The wooden linings of these rooms and of rooms Nos. 69 to 72 were removed and the whole school building is thus rendered absolutely fire-proof. The lunch-room was re-decorated and furnished with tasteful chandeliers, etc. A change was made in Fullerton Memorial Hall, the public lecture- room, by introducing a middle aisle. This brings the hall into strict conformity with the fire ordinances and makes the center of the room more easily accessible. The growth of the Ryerson Library, and especially of the collection of photographs and lantern slides, has made it necessary to appropriate more of the space under the library to library uses. It is well understood that all the space under the library, 6 5 x 7 5 feet and I 3 feet hi gh, belongs properly to the library and is only temporarily used 'for other purposes. The partitions have been re- arranged, and the Library Class-Room has been carried to a position farther south, while two metallic stacks have been introduced as a beginning of the proper use of the stack-rooin. Important improvements have been made in two of the galleries, Rooms 40 and 32. Room 40, which contains the fine paintings of the A. A. Munger collection, had been fitted with mosaic floor and marble wainscoting in 1902, but the decoration of the walls and the introduction of metallic sky-lights were postponed.