REPORT ON THE FINE ARTS EXHIBIT. 



By an arrangement between the New York State Board of General 

 Managers and the chief of the department of fine arts, Mr. Halsey C. 

 Ives, the New York members of the Federal advisory committee for 

 fine arts were constituted an art bureau for the State of New York, 

 whose duties it should be to select an adequate representation at the 

 exposition of the works of New York artists. 



The members of this bureau were as follows : 



Sculptors : J. Q. A. Ward, Augustus St. Gaudens, Olin L. Warner. 



Painters: William M. Chase, Eastman Johnson, H. Bolton Jones, 

 E. Swain GifEord, Frank D. Millet. 



Arch i teats: Richard M. Hunt, Stanford White, WiUiam B. Tutbill. 



Mr. Frederick Dielman and Mr. George W. Mayuard were associated 

 with the committee, representing Mr Millet, who for the greater 

 portion of the time was absent in Cliicago. On October 22, 1892, a 

 preliminary organization was formed at the Century Club, and on 

 December 21, 1892, a formal organization was perfected. J. Q. A. 

 Ward was elected chief of the bureau and William B. Tuthill secretary. 



It was decided to hold a preliminary competition in New York city 

 and to send to the fair such works only as should in the opinion of the 

 committee possess recognizable merit. Circular letters were at once 

 sent to all painters, sculptors, architects and other a.'t workers through- 

 out the State, outlining the plan adopted by the bureau. 



A committee from the bureau, consisting of Messrs. Johnson, Jones 

 and Tuthill, were delegated to procure suitable, commodious and fire- 

 proof quarters for the works of art to be submitted to the juries of 

 selection. Through the courtesy and public spirit of Colonel Appleton, 

 Major Kipp and Captain Lydecker, of the Seventh regiment armory 

 committee, certain portions of the armory on Sixty-sixth and Sixty- 

 seventh streets were obtained for this purpose, without cost to the 

 bureau. The gathering and selection of the works of art occupied the 

 greater portion of January, February and March, 1893, and the dis- 

 tribution of the same, at the close of the exposition, the months of 

 December, 1893, and January, 1894. The armory was thus in use 

 nearly six montlis, and the generosity and State loyalty of the armory 

 committee are gratefully acknowledged. 



On December 6, 1892, there were added to the juries of painting 

 and drawing Miss Mary Cassatt and Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote as 

 representatives of the Women's Board. 



The committee of selection began work on January 16, 1893, and 

 continued till about the end of the month. The handling and trans- 

 portation of the works of art were placed in charge of a special com- 

 mittee consisting of Messrs. Chase, Dielman and Tuthill. The follow- 

 ing tables give an accurate view of the amount of work done by the 

 couimittee during these months and the wide interest taken in the fair 

 by New York artists : 



