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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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done by Robert Bruce Horsfal!, ("arl Rungius and Charles J. Hittell. Charles R. Knight has planned a series of murals to surround the halls of fossil mammals; E. W. Deming has made sketches for a mural series which has been accepted for the Plains Indian hall; Will S. Taylor is the creator of six large mural canvases in the North Pacific hall — where also are Eskimo paintings by Frederick A. Stokes — and Mr. Taylor in his studio in the northwest tower of the IVIuseum is working at present on a second series to show Indian ceremonials. Howard McCormick is painting a canvas 19 by 48 feet, in the hall of the Southwest Indians to form the background for a group of figures which are being made by the sculptor Mahonri M. Young; and so on. Various mural studies have been copied from old cave paintings by Albert Operti who also has painted some back- grounds for groups. Carl E. Akeley, a newly recognized sculptor, engaged im- mediately in the work of mounting an elephant group for the IMuseum, has been given charge of the plans for the future African hall, into which will be drawn A. Phimister Proctor and other sculptors and artists. It is a new era for museums and for the American Museum in particular, and it is but begun. Scientist, sculptor and painter will go on with work more closely amalgamated in exhibition. Architect, sculptor and painter will continue hand in hand in the construction of buildings. Thus results will always become more satisfying to the millions of people who, because limited in opportunities for edu- cation and obliged to live for the most part in humble surroundings, will look more and more to the free museum and its exhibits for instruction and for the beauty, gentle or austere, their imagi- nations crave. The new era for museums in America is of course but a part of a larger move- ment felt in many lines of thought and work and it correlates closely with the increase in free art and music of the highest class, of free education in many things ideal along with the practical, of all conditions tending toward a spirit- ualizing of the race over and above the rapid material advance. Understandingthis, we give unstintedly of what we have — interest, time, work or money. We can but give ourselves more gladly when we look ahead and realize that the people of America can be consciously guided to a future great in a degree we to-day can conceive but cannot compass, and that the guidance
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I'lnpi rhj I'f tlie Museum Two of Knight's sketches for murals in tlie fossil halls of the Museum 85

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