Annual report of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1891) (14761261794)

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Title: Annual report of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Year: 1878 (1870s)

Authors: Philadelphia Museum of Art Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. Annual report Pennsylvania Museum of Art. Annual report

Subjects: Philadelphia Museum of Art Art

Publisher: Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art

Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the Textile Department. You will hear in detail from the reports of the Associate Committeeof Women, the Principal of the School, and of its various departments,and from the report of the Director of the Museum, the progress whichhas been made during the year just passed, and there is much that isvery gratifying and encouraging. WILLIAM PLATT PEPPER, Pj-esident, REPORT OF THE MUSEUM. The history of the Museum for the year is one of continued devel-opment in its chief departments and of extension in various direc-tions of its sphere of usefulness. The list of gifts and loans annexedto this report is remarkable for the number, value and variety of thearticles added to the collections. It is, too, a gratifying evidencethat this branch of the Institution is maintaining a strong and vigor-ous growth. Noteworthy accessions have been made to the Department of Coinsand to the Department of American Pottery. The growth of thelatter department has been such as to require a rearrangement of the

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14 entire collection. The need for more floor space and for more cases,to which I referred in my report of last year, has brought the Museumto a point where a systematic and effective grouping of the exhibitsbecomes a matter of great difficulty. The Department of Textiles and Embroidery has received valuableadditions from Mrs. John Harrison, personally, and from those whomshe has interested in her work. Additional display screens were pro-vided, but the problem of effective arrangement, to which I have justalluded, is perhaps more difficult of solution here than in any otherpart of the Museum. The most important single acquisition to the collections is thestone Memorial Altar designed by Mr. Charles M. Burns and sculp-tured by Mr. Robert D. Kelley for the Memorial Church of the Advo-cate, in this city. This striking work has been placed on view herepending the completion of the church building. Through the generosity of our honored President, the MuseumCommittee has been enabled to ad

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