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Application to copy or photograph any object in the Museum must be made and filed in the Director's office. Easels and space to keep materials will be provided for students.

The Museum Library is extensive and is accessible to students. No books are lent from the Museum, but reading may be done in the library.

Teachers with classes from the public schools will be assisted by the attendants at the Museum in the study of any department, upon request. It is asked that such requests be made before the visit.

Handbooks, catalogs, and souvenir postal cards are on sale at the Library.

Copies of the Bulletin, to which all visitors are welcome, may be obtained at the library, at the entrance of the Museum, or they will be mailed regularly to any address upon the receipt of postage.

An Annual Membership has been organized, the receipts from members to be used as a fund for the purchase of pictures from the Museum. The annual fee is ten dollars. Applications for membership may be addressed to the Director.

Annual members will receive all publications issued by, as well as invitations to all exhibitions, receptions and lectures given under the auspices of the Detroit Museum of Art.

The Detroit Museum of Art receives endowments and gifts of money to be applied to the general or specific purposes of the museum, and gifts and loans of paintings, sculpture and other objects that come within the scope of the different departments,

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January 2nd to 15th.—A joint exhibition of paintings by J. Campbell Phillips and Walter Florian, of New York, will be hung in the Main Gallery.

January 15th to February 8th-An exhibition of paintings by Mrs. M. R. Hamilton, of Paris, will be shown in the new gallery.

January 15th to February 8th-The Annual Exhibition of American Artists will be shown in the Main Gallery.

February 8th to March 1st-An exhibition of Arctic Region Scenes in oil by F. W. Stokes will be shown in the new gallery.

February 8th to March 1st.-Exhibition of paintings by the Society of Odd Brushes of Boston. The artists represented are Scott Clifton Carbee. Louis Kronberg, Will Jenkins, C. Scott White and Frank Jackson.

Other exhibitors during this quarter for whom we cannot at this time assign dates are Jules Guerin and "Collier's Weekly."

CONTRIBUTIONS.

Fine Arts Department.-Dr. Emil Amberg lent an old Dutch master, "Still Life," by Fz. Tacobs.

Mr. W. S. Marsh lent a pitcher of white unglazed ware decorated with raised figures in light purple.

The artist, Mr. Leon S. Dabo, gave a painting, "On the Sea Shore."

Mr. Theodore Scott-Dabo gave one of his canvases, "Evening on the Seine."

Ethnological Department.-Miss Ella Poppleton gave an Indian Quijo.

Mr. E. S. Wheeler gave several Indian stone and copper implements.

Library. Miss Clara Dyar gave one year's subscription to the Scrip magazine.

Coin Collection.--Mr. M. M. Steinberg gave seven Romanian coins three nickel and four copper, of the denominations 20, 10, 5, 2 and 1 bani.

Historical Department.- Mrs. Elizabeth Selkirk gave an old historical trunk.

The attendance during the last quarter of 1905 was as follows:

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FIFTEEN YEARS OF WORK.

On the afternoon of Sunday, December 31st, 1905, a rogram was given in the auditorium of the Museum commemorating the close of fifteen years of service of A. H. Griffith as Director. The Trustee Board and many ncorporators and city officials were present, as well as in audience too large to be accommodated in the auditoium. The program was a review of the work that has been accomplished during the incumbency of Mr. Griffith is Director. The exercises in part follow:

Mr. Thomas Pitts, President of the Museum, acted as chairman.

Many communications were received from numerous friends of the Museum throughout the United States, as well as some of the prominent citizens of Detroit who have been identified with the Museum since its inception. Art institutions of the country were represented in letters from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Albright Art Gallery, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Toledo Museum of

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I regret very much that I cannot be here on your fifteenth anniversary, but I deem it due to you to express my appreciation of your efforts in behalf of the Museum of Art.

Since you have been there the Museum has constantly grown in the sphere of its usefulness and in the estimation of the public. You joined the practical with the sentimental and mostly through your efforts, supported as you have been by the trustees, you have made it a veritable factor in the education of our people. I want to congratulate you on your happy selection of subjects for your Sunday talks and your treatment of them. You take the salient points of a subject and dilate upon them in such a way that they leave an impression on the minds of your hearers.

I regret that my distance from your auditorium prevents my attendance every Sunday. With kind regards, I have the honor to be, Yours very truly,

T. W. PALMER.

Windsor Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla., My Dear Mr. Griffith: December 20th, 1905. * ** I am much interested in the proposed occasion to be made of your fifteenth anniversary of the directorship of the Museum, on the 31st of this month, and I shall be glad to say a word of sympathy and commendation. I sincerely believe you have been "the right man in the right place," and that the Museum has prospered under your guidance. I hope your fifteen years with us may reach the thirtieth, and the forty-fifth, and, if the Lord of Hosts sees fit, the sixtieth; but let us not go over the three score years and ten, for by then you will have earned peace and quiet and be enjoying it.

I am, as I have said, an old man, and my retired years have been blessed by leisure and comfort. Much of my pleasure has come from my touch with the Detroit Museum of Art, and for it I ask further blessings and continued prosperity. Cordially, FREDERICK STEARNS.

P. S. Here is my toast to you for the evening of December 31st, to be drunk standing and with a full glass: "Here's to the years that are stretching ahead, To the days that are blithsome and gay; May the joys of the old be the joys of the new, And the sorrows fade gently away."

December 31st, 1905.

Very much to my regret, I am at the last moment compelled to forego the pleasure of being present this afternoon. It is a matter of the utmost importance that keeps me away.

I send to you my most sincere congratulations for continued success in your work, and the hope that your idea of an addition to the present Museum as shown in this morning's Free Press may be realized. It can and ought to be done, and if put to a popular vote would receive an overwhelming majority, to say nothing of what ought to be and would be done by the men of means in our city.

A Happy New Year to you, and many more.
CHAS. L. FREER.

PRESIDENT PITTS ADDRESS.

Ladies and Gentlemen-In lieu of the usual Sunday afternoon art lecture, the Board of Trustees has thought it meet and proper to commemorate this fifteenth anniversary of Prof. Grifhth's connection with the Museum by special ceremonies, and to that end has invited to be present the officers of the city government, the incorporators of the Museum, our former chief magistrate, Hon. Wilham C. Maybury, and this audience, which has so ably testified by its vast proportions its desire to do honor to its popular and efficient guide along the pleasant paths which lead to the realization of its aesthetic aspirations.

The history of Prof. Griffith's connection with the Museum, as well as that of Col. Farnsworth, his coadjutor -the period of whose connection antedates that of Prof. Griffith-will be told in circumstance and detail by themselves, and will be a valuable contribution to our knowledge of how this Museum, from a humble beginning, has grown and developed into a great institution through whose portals passed during the past year a multitude of the citizens of this city and state, aggregating, as our records show, 140,000 people.

It is not my province to interpret this most interesting and instructive history. It is my province, however, and a most pleasant duty, to testify here in behalf of the Board of Trustees, which I represent, its faith and confidence in the Director and custodian whose genius has made the Museum what it is.

At the close of his address the President presented the Secretary of the Board, Col. Fred. E. Farnsworth, who gave a "Brief History of the Museum."

COL. FARNSWORTH.

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen-To me has been assigned, I think, rather a dry subject, and to do justice to the history of the Detroit Museum of Art would take a volume instead of the few moments which I will give to it. I presume I was selected by the Board of Trustees for this part in the program owing to the fact that I have been identified, as Mr. Pitts has said, since the inception of the project, or in the inauguration of the art movement here in the establishment of the Art Loan. It seems right and proper, however, on an occasion of this kind, that some tribute should be paid to the promoters of the enterprise, to those who worked in the early stages, and to those who have made possible the grand institution which we have today.

The establishment of the Detroit Museum of Art came directly through the influence of the Art Loan Exhibition of 1883. Previous to the year 1883 there was little interest in art matters in the City of Detroit; occasionally an artist's exhibition, and a few private collections of merit.

To William H. Brearley, formerly a resident of this city, is due the evolving and conceiving of the Loan. Mr. Brearley, at that time, was connected with the Evening News. In the latter part of 1882 he caused to be published an article suggesting the holding of a loan exhibition which might eventually result in the establishment of a

Museum of Art. Subsequently a meeting was held at the residence of James F. Joy on December 6th, 1882, at which the proposition was discussed, and the organization was effected February 27th, 1883, by the election of an Exec tive Committee, as follows:

W. H. Brearley, Chairman.
Fred. E. Farnsworth, Secretary.
John L. Harper, Treasurer.
Hon. H. P. Baldwin.

Mrs. Richard Storrs Willis.
Mrs. J. T. Sterling.

Mrs. H. H. H. Crapo Smith.
Mrs. Morse Stewart.
Mrs. E. G. Holden.
Mrs. E. C. Skinner.
John L. Warren.

Then the work began, and in its early stages was met with considerable opposition and many difficulties. For the purpose of guaranteeing the project, o: March 7th, 1883, a bond was executed, on which appears the names of forty of our most influential and wealthy citizens, guaranteeing $40,000, which sum was to be used. if necessary, to defray any shortage which might occur in the proposed exhibition.

Forty-five meetings were held from the inception of the project to its completion and winding up. In its early stages a committee examined various buildings, with a view to their use for the exhibition.

Of the buildings examined, there were none which seemed well adapted for the purpose, and it was finally decided to erect a building on the property adjoining St. Anne's Church on Larned Street. This property leased from the Bagley estate at a nominal rental, and the building completed thereon, which was admirably adapted for the exhibition.

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The Art Loan opened on September 1st and closed on November 12th, 1883, and was a success in point of attendance, and from an artistic standpoint, beyond the expectations of the most sanguine, the total attendance for the entire period being 135,000 persons. One million dollars' worth of property was exhibited, and there were about five thousand art and other objects on exhibition. Financially the Art Loan was not a success, a small balance only having been realized over and above all expenses.

Through the instrumentality of Mr. Richard Storrs Willis, Pope Leo XIII presented to the enterprise the fine picture known as the "Marriage of St. Katherine." By popular subscription was secured the painting by F. D. Millet of the "Story of Oenone," and while not successful financially, the enterprise was fraught with great results.

The Art Loan was considered to have excelled in magnitude and merit all exhibitions of the kind ever held in this country. It created an interest in art in this city which resulted in the establishment of the Detroit Museum of Art.

Too much credit cannot be given the little band of workers, known as the Executive Committee, who worked early and late to bring about the results accomplished. Mr. Brearley gave much of his valuable time for nine months. The other members of the committee were indefatigable in their efforts to make the Art Loan a success. Of the original number some have passed away, and to those who have gone I would pay a tribute-the Honorable H. P. Baldwin, Richard Storrs Willis and John L. Warren; of the ladies, Mrs. Morse Stewart, a noble woman, whose force of character and executive ability did much to bring to a successful culmination the efforts of the Executive Committee. There were trying times, when Mrs. Stewart's wise counsel and good influence carried us safely over the stormy seas. Of the ladies who comprised our Executive Committee, who are with us, much credit is due for their hard work in the various departments. and this historical sketch would not be complete without mentioning Mrs. Richard Storrs Willis, Mrs. Crapo Smith, Mrs. J. T. Sterling, Mrs. E. G. Holden and Mrs. E. C. Skinner.

The finances were ably handled by our Treasurer, Mr. John L. Harper.

Once firmly established and the enterprise well under way, with the building nearing completion, sub-commitees were appointed, and the citizens and ladies generally who were called upon for assistance responded and did their part to make the exhibition the success it achieved.

On April 5th, 1883, the first movement was inaugurated for the establishment of this institution, by the generous gift of $10,000 offered by Senator T. W. Palmer, with the understanding that this should be augmented by $30,000 more. Thirty thousand dollars was then subscribed by the citizens of Detroit, Senator Palmer naming, under his gift, the ten members of the Executive Committee (subscribers for $1,000 each), and the forty subscribers to this fund were the original incorporators of the Detroit Museum of Art.

The first meeting for the proposed corporation was held February 27th, 1884, and a committee on organization appointed. George V. N. Lothrop was chairman of this committee, and associated with him were James E. Scripps and William A. Moore. A suitable law was drafted and introduced in the legislature, and under this act, prepared by Mr. Lothrop and his associates, the Museum was incorporated.

The first Board of Trustees consisted of Messrs. W. H. Brearley, George V. N. Lothrop, William A. Moore, L. T. Ives, Thomas W. Palmer and James E. Scripps; Mayor Chamberlain, for the city, appointing Messrs. Don M. Dickinson and James McMillan. Senator Palmer was chosen as first President, and Fred. E. Farnsworth as Secretary.

The Board of Trustees then authorized the increasing of the $40,000 fund to $100,000, and this work was placed in the hands of W. H. Brearley, a herculean task which Mr. Brearley was fully equal to. The subscriptions ranged from one cent to over $10,000.

Shortly after the completion of this $100,000 fund, a movement was inaugurated to build our main building. Various sites were suggested and considered, the trustees finally accepting the property known as the Brady property, where this building now stands. This land was presented to the Detroit Museum of Art, free and unencumbered, by a few of the residents of Jefferson Avenue, led by a committee consisting of Henry B. Brown, Sidney D. Miller and William B. Moran. Plans were advertised for, and in competition the award was made to Mr. James Balfour, of Hamilton, Ontario. The new building was formally opened to the public on September 1st, 1888, with an exhibition of modern paintings, led by the collection of Mr. George I. Seney, of New York.

Through the munificence of Miss Clara A. Avery, Mr. John Ward Dunsmore was appointed the first Director, Miss Avery being sponsor for his salary.

On December 6th, 1890, the proposition of building permanent wings to the Museum was discussed; thereafter plans were drawn and the money raised, and the two wings on either side of the court were erected. This addition was provided for by the liberal subscriptions of a few of the wealthy incorporators of the institution.

It is probably not necessary to dwell on the recent history of the Museum, as we are all familiar with the rapid strides made during the past fifteen years, during the incumbency of our present Director.

The Detroit Museum of Art, as the name implies, was founded as an art institute. Confined strictly to art it was not a success, in the sense of attracting the public, or by the gifts of art objects. The public institutes of this country now, as a rule, are museums, and not art galleries. What few art galleries we have have been established and maintained by private individuals, and are confined strictly to pictures and statuary. In most communities the masses must be educated in art, and to do this it seems necessary that an institution must be on broader lines than distinctively an art museum. It has been said of the late Henry C. Lewis, of Coldwater, who owned so fine an art collec

tion, that his first picture was a chromo, and from that developed his taste and education in art. So with this institution.

With the selection of Professor Griffith the Museum broadened out. From an attendance of a few hundred a year, it has reached for the year 1903, 140,000. We owe much to our present Director. It was he who proposed making our Museum a public institution, and through his efforts there was first secured an appropriation from the city by which the doors were thrown open free to the public. By this liberal appropriation, which has been increased from $5,000 a year in 1893 to $12,000 a year at the present time, the popular success of the Museum is largely due. You are no doubt familiar with the action taken whereby the corporation has secured this magnificent auditorium and its exhibition rooms contained in this new addition. First, by the introduction of a bill to the legislature in 1903, authorizing the Common Council to make an annual appropriation not exceeding $20,000 in any one year, and also authorizing the bonding of the city for the purpose of building this addition.

This auditorium was dedicated in June, 1905. In an institution of this kind, successful as it has been, necessarily the credit is not due to any one nor several individuals. The gentlemen who have served as officers and trustees since its inception have given much of their time and money to its promotion and welfare. It has been a labor of love with them, and there has never been one dollar of compensation in salary paid to any of its officers. It would not be practicable, in a brief history of this kind, to give the names of the many donors of art objects and articles to this institution. Sometimes the value of some small article, presented by an individual in humble circumstances, compares favorably with that of a large donor.

Among the liberal contributors of funds for the Museum of Art, as well as objects of art, should be mentioned Hon. James McMillan, Bela Hubbard, Hon. H. P. Baldwin, H. Kirk White, George W. Balch, Col. F. J Hecker, Frederick Stearns and George H. Scripps, and to Senator Palmer, D. M. Ferry, C. H. Buhl and James E. Scripps we are indebted additionally for the finishing and equipment of four of our galleries; to Mr. C. L. Freer for our new library, his personal interest in the same, and the rare and valuable collection which he has placed therein.

I wish to call your attention particularly to the munificence of James E. Scripps, in his gift of "Old Masters" in the Scripps Gallery, and also to the great interest always manifested in this institution, and the magnificent and varied collection, the gift of Mr. Frederick Stearns. These two collections, among the best of their kind in the country, have done much to increase the popularity of our Museum.

We have frequently been indebted, during the past twenty years, to the owners of private galleries in Detroit, and to the owners of fine works of art, who have loaned their collections for exhibition purposes.

We are also indebted for two bequests made under the wills of W. C. Yawkey, $5,000, and Joseph Perrien, $2,000.

I wish also to pay tribute to Mayor Codd, ex-Mayor Maybury, Comptroller Blades, the Board of Estimates and the Common Council of the City of Detroit, who, during the past ten years, have dealt so liberally with us, and have done so much toward the popularizing of our institution.

During the history of the Museum of Art we have had many employes who have been loyal and have given much valuable assistance to the officers. I might mention in this connection Miss Jennie M. Smith, our lamented Assistant Director, Mr. Bradish, and our present Assistant Director, Mr. Burroughs, as well as all of the present force of the Museum.

In conclusion, I wish to express, on behalf of the Board of Trustees and the incorporators, their full appreciation of the services of Professor Griffith. Coming in contact, as we have, with him during the past fifteen years,

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Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen-It is a great privilege and a pleasure, sir, upon this occasion, on behalf of the city, to extend to you our most hearty congratulations upon this completion of your fifteen years of service; but it seems to me that still heartier congratulations should be extended to the Board of Trustees of this Museum of Art and the citizens of our city for having had this high privilege of having had Mr. Griffith with us so long a time. (Applause.) The work that he has done has been of incalculable benefit to us, and I doubt if one man in the city of Detroit has had more to do with helping others than has fallen to the lot of Mr. Griffith in his work in this Museum. When we hear the report of the Secretary that the visitors to this Museum have increased during the time he has been Director from 5,000 a year to 140,000 a year, about one-third of our people, we can realize what Mr. Griffith has done and is doing for us. And we should therefore stop and think whether we, as a city, are doing enough for him, and for this Museum, and for like institutions. And to do this it is but right that we should make, in a way, a comparison, and see what our sister cities are doing for like institutions. You will read in the newspapers every little while a notice that this city or that city, or this institution of art in this city or that city, has been endowed by some wealthy citizen with large sums of money. It is only a short time ago that the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, was presented with three million dollars for a Museum of Art, and the other day Buffalo was presented with half a million. Toledo was presented with a large sum of money. Other cities all over our country are getting these bequests and donations from their wealthy citizens continually for this purpose; because they believe in doing this, they are helping themselves. It is not an entirely unselfish thing to give, always. As a matter of fact, the best giving is when one fully realizes that they are helping themselves or their community in doing it, and you are surely helping yourselves when an institution of this kind, which is doing so much good for each and every citizen of the community,-you are surely helping yourselves when you help this insti

tution.

And now at the end of the year, as we look back, we are going to make undoubtedly some new year's resolutions, but in making those new year's resolutions we necessarily take into consideration our means, and what has been done in the past for us. Each year for the past few years has been a succeeding one of benefit to our people. Our people are more prosperous than they have ever been before, and this past year, 1905, as is shown by the large number of new manufactories, the prosperity of our people is such as would lead us to make resolutions in thankfulness for this great year of prosperity. Can we do anything better than to make those resolutions along the lines of supporting worthy institutions of this character, and can we not do it when we fully realize the benefit to our citizens, in the opportunity which we have in listening to a man like Mr. Griffith, in a place like

this upon subjects he can talk about, the uplifting of our minds, it helps us and interests us so much that it would seem to me that it is our absolute duty to ourselves to see to it that this institution is never allowed to lack support, and to see that it is doubled in its work and doubled in its capacity here. (Applause.) And, therefore, Mr Griffith, in closing, I simply want to say to you I wish you a most happy and prosperous new year in your work, and to the Board of Trustees of this institution likewise, so that this year may simply increase, as I know it will, the usefulness of the Art Museum, and may it not be long before the fruition of Mr. Griffith's hopes in the enlargement of this institution are fully brought about. I thank you. (Applause.)

The President then presented the former chief-magistrate of the city, Hon. William C. Maybury.

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MR. MAYBURY.

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen-I do not think it possible to assemble anywhere an audience in which so much gratitude is expressed as in this audience this afterMr. Griffith has done more for us individually, and He in a certain way, than any other friend we have got. knows us, and we have learned to know him. For if you want to know a person really well, travel with him night and day, as we have traveled with him. (Applause and laughter.) It is very seldom that people travel as the people of Detroit have traveled in all these years with Mr. Griffith without finding your traveling friend sometimes a little out of humor, perhaps sometimes tired and peevish; but I can say to you with all confidence that neither you nor I have ever found the journey fatiguing with Mr. Griffith, for not one minute has he lost his good nature and his kindly heart. Mr. Griffith (Applause.) stands pre-eminently among the artists of the country in this: There are many artists, but how very few of them can get on to that good substantial plane, and good common sense whereby the artist can convey to the audience just what he wants to convey. Mr. Griffith has a peculiar power of doing that. He is not only an artist among artists, but he has the rare gift of talking to you and to me. who are not artists, and yet making us understand and appreciate, and in a large measure, love art, and that is what has built up this museum. (Applause.)

Why, I have seen him come in here on a pleasant Sunday morning, even though the storm raved outside, yet within it was bright and pleasant. I think Mr. Griffith is a sort of psychic, as I have noticed his effect upon you as well as upon myself; the mere passing of the hands, and saying: I am going to take you this afternoon to the Pyramids. At once we forget that we ever lived in Detroit, and we are on our way to the Pyramids. Now, we did not have to pay any fare on that journey. Mr. Griffith has paid it all for us, and where there has been any walking to do on the way on the hot sands of Egypt or any animals to ride, or anything of that kind, Mr. Griffith has done that all. And so we follow and find ourselves standing at the foot of the Pyramids. And he tells us now: We will climb the Pyramids, and we climb. (Laughter and applause.) And we listen as he tells us about the wonderful astronomy and geology and architecture that surrounds those great and mysterious monuments. When he gets through he says: That will be all for this afternoon, and we at once return to Detroit, not a bit fatigued. (Applause.) I recollect one audience assembled here on a certain afternoon-I did not happen to be present, I wish I had been,-when he announced: This afternoon we will go on a visit to Mount Vesuvius, which is just now in a state of eruption. It will be a beautiful journey for us to make. At once the audience started for Mount Vesuvius. They climbed the mountain, felt the dust and ashes of Vesuvius falling upon their coat collars, and the ladies instinctively shook their veils, and it was said when they got to their respective homes they all asked for a whisk broom to get the ashes off. (Laughter.) He steps in front of the audience on this platform, and says,

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