Detroit Institute of Arts, The, Detroit, Mich., incorporated in 1885 and reinstalled in an elaborate and modern building in 1927, includes a large collection of art works and a wide scope of edu cational activities. The museum has an interesting arrangement of the collections on one main floor in a series of period rooms, to gether with a pleasing semblance of their original setting. This floor is divided into three main sections : European, American and Asiatic. The Institute has provided educational facilities for students of the fine arts, such as study rooms, a lecture hall and a large auditorium equipped with a fine stage and a pipe organ.
Baltimore Museum of Art, The, which was founded in 1923 (Baltimore, Md.) moved into a new and up-to-date building in 1929. The collections are largely loan exhibitions, including paint ings and sculpture by both American and foreign artists. Among the permanent treasures is an interesting group of East Indian metal and Cypriote antiquities. The educational work includes lectures, gallery tours for children, and the distribution of art collections and lantern slides among the schools.
City Art Museum of St. Louis, The, founded in 1879 as the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts and reorganized in 1908, has an interesting group of collections, small but of unusual beauty. American paintings have received special attention, and an exhi bition of invited paintings by American artists is assembled an nually, selected largely from important exhibitions held at Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, New York and Pittsburgh. These, with splendid examples of American sculpture, constitute one of the most representative collections of modern American art.
Denver Art Museum, The, Denver, Colo., is specializing in two regional art collections—the American Indian and the Spanish American art. The Museum is especially interested in fostering the spirit of creative art and encouraging worthy students of art.
Fine Arts Society of San Diego, The, San Diego, Calif., estab lished in 1926, is significant in its unique collection of old and modern Spanish art, as well as contemporary American art, which is almost exclusively in the field of paintings. It has a membership
of more than i,000.
Museum of the American Indian, The, Heye Foundation, New York City, was opened in 1922. It has over 2,000,00o exhibits and can display only about one-quarter of these at one time on the three floors that are devoted to exhibition rooms. The sole aim of the Museum is to gather and preserve for students everything useful in illustrating and elucidating the anthropology of the aborigines of the Western hemisphere. The field work, the publi cations and the monographs are notable.
Hispanic Society of America, The, was founded in 1904 in New York City. Its library and museum were designed to be a link between the English, Spanish and Portuguese speaking peoples— their languages, literature, art and history. A collection of paint ings, manuscripts, maps and coins, and a library of io0,000 books form the most notable Hispanic collection in America. The society has held several outstanding exhibitions, among them the works of Sorolla, Zuloaga, Cervantes and Lope de Vega, as well as of collections of sculpture, photographs, prints, etc., and has issued more than 180 publications in Spanish history, literature and art.
Milwaukee Art Institute, The, Milwaukee, Wis., organized in 1910, is noted for its public activities as a civic centre—its great number of temporary exhibitions, gallery tours for children, enter tainments for outside organizations, and free lectures.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, The, Washington, D.C., was founded in 1869. Special attention has of late been given to the acquisi tion of works by the American painters and sculptors, with a view to making the collection as representative as possible. A free art school is conducted in connection with the gallery.
Toledo Museum of Art, The, Toledo, Ohio, incorporated in 1901, has among its many collections perhaps the finest display of ancient glass in the world. The group of early printed books and manuscripts is also a remarkable one in that it shows the entire evolution of the art of writing and printing. The Museum has a vast educational programme : Sunday concerts, evening lec tures, art lectures for children, etc. (F. L. D.)