AWARDS FOR BIRD PICTURES 



Work of Milton Children Judged by Cyrus E. Dallin, 

 the Sculptor, and Frank T. Merrill, the Artist, 

 Who Announce Honor List. 



Last winter, as a side issue of the Brush Hill Bird Club 

 Exhibition, the Audubon outline pictures of birds were dis- 

 tributed to any Milton children who wished them. So much 

 interest was taken that 750 pictures were colored and re- 

 turned. These pictures have been on exhibition at the 

 Library during July and August; later, those receiving hon- 

 orable mention will be suitably bound and placed in the 

 Children's Room. 



Last week the children's work was judged by Cyrus E. 

 Dallin, the sculptor of Boston's inspiring Indian masterpiece, 

 "The Appeal to the Great Spirit," and Frank T. Merrill, 

 the well-known artist. Mr. Dallin and Mr. Merrill spent a 

 whole evening judging the pictures, and awarded the honors 

 on a basis of not only the care taken by the child, but the 

 spirit and the color sense which the work showed. The 

 awards had to be made in various groups, according to age, 

 and also according to grades, as some children had signed 

 their age, others their grade in school. 



(From The Milton Record, August 29, 1914.) 



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