THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO. A museum of fine arts and school of drawing, painting, dramatic art, etc. Michigan avenue President-Vacancy. at Adams street. Officers. 1 are thenceforth exempt from dues. All receipts from life memberships are invested and the income only expended. All members are entitled, with their families and visiting friends, to admission to all exhibitions, re ceptions, public lectures and entertainments Vice-Presidents-Martin A. Ryerson, Frank G. given by the Art Institute and to the use of Logan. Treasurer-Ernest A. Hamill. Kelley. Fabens Curator of Prints-William McKee. Librarian-Sarah L. Mitchell. Museum Instructor-Helen Parker. Dean of Art School-Raymond P. Ensign. Social Relations Secretary-Grace Williams. Superintendent of Buildings-James F. McCabe. Museum Registrar-G. E. Kaltenbach. Trustees, 1924-Arthur T. Aldis, Robert Allerton, Edward E. Ayer. Frederic C. Bartlett, A. G. Becker, Edward B. Butler, Wallace L. DeWolf, Percy B. Eckhart, Marshall Field, John J. Glessner, William O. Goodman, Robert P. Lamont, Frank G. Logan, Cyrus McCormick, Jr., Potter Palmer, Abram Poole, Martin A. Ryerson, Howard Shaw, A. A. Sprague, Charles H. Thorne. Ex of ficio: William E. Dever, mayor; Martin J. O'Brien, city comptroller; Edward J. Kelly, president south park commissioners; E. B. Patterson, auditor south park commissioners. The Art Institute of Chicago was incorporated May 24. 1879, for the "founding and maintenance of schools of art and design, the formation and exhibition of collections of objects of art and the cultivation and extension of the arts of design by any appropriate means." The museum building upon the lake front. first occupied in 1893, has never been closed for a day. It is open to the public every week day from 9 to 5:30, Sundays from 12:00 to 9 p. m. Admission is free to members (over 13,000) and their families at all times and free to all upon Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. Upon other days the entrance fee is 25 cents. Sunday concerts at 3:00 and 4:15 p. m., 15 cents admission; free lecture at 5 p. m. All friends of art are invited to become members. Annual members pay a fee of $10 a year. Life members pay $100 and are thenceforth exempt from dues. Sustaining members pay $25 or more a year. Governing members are elected by the trustees and pay $100 upon election and $25 a year thereafter. Upon the payment of $400 govering members become governing life members and the Ryerson reference library of art and Burnham library of architecture (21,500 volumes). Visitors desiring to see the collections under guidance may make appointments with the museum instructors at the office of the direc tor. The invested funds exceed $4,250,000. MUSEUM. The Art museum now ranks among the first three in the country. It contains excellent examples of the old masters and of the modern painters. There is also a large and comprehensive collection of sculpture, including reproductions of the work of the greatest sculptors, ancient and modern. There is an Other fields of art are represented by collec extensive collection of architectural casts tions of coins and medals, prints and drawings, textiles, wall paper, ceramics, oriental art. Egyptian and classical antiquities, period rooms, children's room, etc. There is a constant succession of passing exhibitions, fifty a year. All students enjoy the full use of the collections and the libraries. The number of visitors to the museum during the year ended Dec. 31. 1923, approximated 1,000,000. or more SCHOOL. The school of the Art Institute offers carefully planned courses of training for workers in the several arts, including drawing, printing arts, commercial art, painting, sculpture. designing and illustration, and for teachers of the arts. All students have ready access to the museum collections for research work. The school is conducted upon the most modern methods and has grown to be the most comprehensive and largest fine arts school in the United States. Distinguished teachers from a distance are called in from time to time. The faculty consists of 39 teachers, not counting those of the Saturday classes. A school of dramatic art under the leadership of Thomas Wood Stevens opened Jan 1, 1925. The tuition rates are as follows: Day School-Matriculation fee. $5; term of twelve weeks, $67 (including locker fee). Evening Rates-Matriculation fee. $2; three nights a week, $18.50; one term, $15.50 (twe evenings. twelve weeks) or one evening, 12 weeks, $13. half days for $8. Special Classes. Portrait of George Washington. $10.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 10.00 10.00 A portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart was secured for the Art Institute in the spring of 1924 at a cost of $75.000. The money was raised by subscription, more than 225.000 Chicagoans, including school chi'dren, The contributing to the fund. presentation was made May 24 by Pau! Schulze, chairman of a committee appointed by Mayor Dever to raise the money, and was accepted by Robert B. Harshe, director of the Art Institute. The portrait was painted in 1795 by Stuart for Gardner Baker of New York. 16 was purchased from Walter L. Erich of New York. All occupations 9.774 3 167 178 5,004 2.488 919.898 759.778 311.409 236.811 4.747 Probably includes some salesmen and saleswomen incorrectly reported as clerks. parable statistics for 1910 not available. † Com TOTALS AND PERCENTAGES the 996.589 gainful workers were 45.6 per cent of the total population of the city and 56.3 per cent of the population 10 years of age and over. According to the returns of the fourteenth | lation 10 years of age and over. In 1910 census, there were 1.231.468 persons 10 years of age and over in Chicago engaged in gainful occupations in 1920. constituting 45.6 per cent of the total population of the city (2.701.705) and 56.7 per cent of the popu Of the gainful workers of Chicago 919,853, or 74.7 per cent, were males and 311.615, or 25.3 per cent, were females. The male gainful workers constituted 83.4 per cent of all males 10 years of age and over in 1920. as against 82.9 per cent in 1910, while the female gainful workers constituted 29.2 per cent of all females 10 years of age and over in 1920, as against 27.7 per cent in 1910. Of the gainful workers of Chicago in 1920, No. Name. 488,597, or 39.7 per cent, were engaged in manufacturing and mechanical industries; 110,596, or 9 per cent, in transportation 207,413, or 16.8 per cent, in trade: 22.965. or 1.9 per cent. in public service: 71,756, or 5.8 per cent, in professional service: 117,201 or 9.5 per cent, in domestic and personal service: 208,880, or 17 per cent, in clerical occupations: and 4,060, or 0.3 per cent. in all other occupations. MAYORS OF CHICAGO. Their politics and order and year of election. 1. William B. Ogden, Dem... 1837 1877 31. Joseph Medill, Citt 2. Buckner S. Morris, Whig. .1838 1879 32. Harvey D. Colvin, Peo.. 3. Benjamin W. Raymond, Whig..1839 4. Alexander Lloyd, Dem... 1843 .1844 1845 1840 5. Francis C. Sherman, Dem.. .1841 6. Benjamin W. Raymond, Dem...1842 7. Augustus Garrett, Dem.. 8. Alson S. Sherman, Dem.. 9. Augustus Garrett, Dem.. 12. J. H. Woodworth, Dem.-Whig..1848 13. J. H. Woodworth, Dem-Whig..1849 14. James Curtiss, Dem.. 15. Walter S. Gurnee, Dem... 16. Walter S. Gurnee, Dem... ..1850 17. Charles M. Gray, Dem... .1877 1883 33. Thomas Hoyne, Rep.. Elected. Died. .1871 1899 .1873 1892 .1875 1894 .1876 1894 .1887 1904 ..1889 1898 1918 1893 1918 1912 1869 42. Hempstead Washburne, Rep...1891 1869 43. Carter H. Harrison, Sr., Dem..1893 1860 44. John F. Hopkins, Dem... ..1893 1903 45. George B. Swift, Rep.... ..1895 1903 46. Carter H. Harrison, Jr., Dem...1897 1885 47. Carter H. Harrison, Jr., Dem..1899 1889 48. Carter H. Harrison, Jr., Dem..1901 1882 49. Carter H. Harrison, Jr.. Dem..1903 1862 50. Edward F. Dunne, Dem......1905 1888 51. Fred A. Busset. Rep.. 1896 52. Carter H. Harrison, Jr., Dem..1911 1896 53. William H. Thompson, Rep.....1915 1888 54. William H. Thompson. Rep...1919 1886 55. William E. Dever, Dem........1923 1870 Two-year terms for mayor began in 1863. 1870 "Fireproof" ticket. Four-year terms for .1865 1874 mayor began in 1907. Terms begin within a .1867 1874 month or so after election in April; no precise 1892 date fixed by law, ..1877-1883 .1883-1885 .1885-1889 .1889-1893 .1893-1897 .1897-1901 .1901-1905 1905-1909 .1909-1913 .1913-1917 ..1917-1921 1818-1822 Shelby M. Cullom, § Rep. CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL PARK. In December. 1919, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick presented to Cook county a tract of 300 acres of land, valued at about $300,000 and lying on the west bank of the Des Plaines river near Riverside, as a site for a large zoological garden. The plan committee of the Cook county forest preserve met on Dec. 31 and voted unanimously to accept the gift, and it was agreed that the zoo. in honor of the donor, should be named the "McCormick Zoological Gardens." However, Mrs. McCormick in her deed of gift stipulated that the name should be "The Chicago Zoological Gar dens." Later the word "park" was substituted for "gardens." The Chicago Zoological society, which will .1921-1929 operate the gardens, was incorporated in February, 1921. In 1924 the officers of the society were: President-John T. McCutcheon. A proposition for the adoption of an act to authorize the commissioners of the forest preserve district of Cook county to establish and maintain a zoological park and to levy and collect a tax to pay the cost thereof was rejected by the voters of Cook county at the election on Nov. 6. 1923. |