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FINE ARTS. 



The display in this department was much larger than in former 

 years, and the exhibits presented for competition showed ^reat 

 improvement not only in skill in drawing and painting but also in 

 artistic arrangement of subjects taken for study. Paintino-, or 

 drawing from nature is much more difficult to execute than merely 

 copying the work of another, wherein the shading or color, as well 

 as perspective, has been accomplished by some previous hand. 

 It is, then, to the original in design and execution that we must 

 look for the highest improvement and the greatest degree of ex- 

 cellence in art. 



There were some very fine copies on exhibition which, had 

 they been taken from nature, vvould have been entitled to some- 

 thing more than a gratuity. 



The original designs from the schools were excellent ; even 

 those from the lowest grades showing much ingenuity and care. 



The exhibit in Mechanical drawing from the day and evening 

 schools was small but some very fine sheets were displayed, show- 

 ing great skill and careful workmanship. 



The pupils of the Parochial school showed some nicely finished 

 crayon portraits and copies. 



Some fine specimens of a new process of clay working were on 

 exhibition. 



A fine painting from the studio of J. L. Smith of Cambridge 

 was kindly loaned by Mr. L. C. Albee, for exhibition only, repre- 

 senting a section of his "Fairlawn" farm, and a group of Holstein 

 cattle. 



MARY L. GARFIP:L1), Chairman. 



