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more spent in study in the European art centres, in Greece and the Troad. She then began the work in History of Art which she has carried on for fifteen years, continuing her studies in almost yearly visits abroad and enlarging her collection of illustrative material, until it may safely be called one of the best private collections in the country. Miss Randolph’s fine enthu- siasm in study and her ready grasp of the related facts and principles in the historical develop- ment of art have been a means of growth and culture to successive classes at “ Lake Erie,” in the School of Design, Cleveland, and elsewhere throughout the Western Reserve. It is not strange that her own Alma Mater coveted her services and called her to Mount Holyoke in 1892, with the understanding, however, that one third of the year should be given to “ Lake Erie.” The teaching of History of Art at Mount Holyoke and “ Lake Erie” has been characterized by breadth and depth. The philosophical method of Germany has had a prevailing influence. If any should criticize the attempt to cover in a single course the whole ground of Ancient Art and of Modern Art to the seventeenth century, it may be answered that it has been a study of relations rather than of details. It has also been practical as well as theoretical and fundamental. Students, who have accompanied Miss Randolph, in journeys abroad, have been well prepared to profit by the experience, and have come home interested to carry out some special line of work, based upon the broad and solid foundation of their previous study. The elective courses at Mount Holyoke already offer such an opportunity, a well-defined, more detailed review in archaeology and of periods and schools of art. For such advanced special courses, however, more room is immediately required. The space used in Williston Hall is not only limited, but crowded with the work of other departments; the art gallery, on the third floor, insufficient and poorly lighted. An Art Building, is greatly needed at Mount Holyoke, to include galleries, suitable for the exhibition of casts and pictures, a large well-lighted lecture hall, with a series of smaller rooms for laboratory work, in Art History, and for the storing of valuable books and illustrations. And, in direct connection, studios for the required and elective classes in drawing and painting. In this time of new buildings for Mount Holyoke such an immediate, pressing need should not pass unrecognized, certainly of vital importance to the art department of the college. The materials for this sketch, in much the same formas here presented, were kindly furnished by Miss Evans, principal of Lake Erie Seminary. The final statement, as to the needs of the art department of Mount Holyoke College, is from an appeal written by Miss Randolph, in December. 1896.
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London, collecting books and photographs, under the direction of Mrs. Mitchell and Professor Kinkel. In a letter to Miss Blanchard dated Bassano, August 12, 1877, Mrs. Mitchell expresses her personal interest in the introduction of Art at Mount Holyoke. “ I am more than glad to be of what little service I can in this matter and wish I had it in my power to do much more. The subject is so important and one that can be made of such interest and value to young ladies, I have long desired to see it receive the systematic and careful attention, in the course at Mount Holyoke, which it deserves.” From her return, in 1878, till her res- ignation, in 1889, Miss Blanchard gave the instruction in History of Art,with the same thoroughness of preparation and mastery of principles which had characterized all her work as a teacher, together with a refined taste and a high appreciation of the master- pieces of Art. Her large and valuable photographs were freely used for her classes, or hung in the halls as a daily object lesson to all. She gave an impulse to the movement among the alumnae to secure copies of famous works in painting, the Assumption by Titian being purchased by her own class, 1858. Courses of lectures continued to be given by Professor William H. Goodyear and by Professor Mather. Meanwhile at Lake Erie Seminary, History of Art had become one of the studies of the senior year and the class of ’79 had shown their appreciation of its value by establishing a fund for the purchase of casts and other art illustrations. In 1882 Miss Randolph, of the Mount Holyoke class of 1872, returned from two years and 12 THE LECTURE ROOM, ART HISTORY. t
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