Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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SCHOOL OF FINE AND APPLIED ARTS OFFICE OF THE SCHOOL RECEPTION ROOM

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SCHOOL OF FINE AND APPLIED ARTS to 1914, inclusive, the graduates of the various courses of study have nu mbered as follows: Normal Art and Normal Art and Manual Training, 860; General Art, Costume and Commercial Illustration, 254; Applied Design and Interior Decoration and Applied Design and the Crafts, 388; Architectural Construction and Architectural Design, 457; Jewelry, Silversmithing and Chasing and Wood Carving, 67; making a total of 2026, Normal Art and Manual Training Course. Ve have definite information that over one thousand positions as instructors in drawing and manual training have been filled by our students. Of course all these Nor- mal students, with the lapse of years, are not now teaching; but, supposing that two-thirds of them are in the work, the aggregate salaries will approximate fully one million dollars a year, and the children under their supervision number many times one million. Architectural Construction and Architectural De- sign. So far as we know, nearly every one of those graduated from the courses in Architecture has been successful in the profession. The graduates are hold- ing important positions in the offices of architectural firms or they have become independent builders and architects in various towns and cities, doing work that has attracted marked attention. passed the Civil Service examination and received im- Many have portant positions. Apphed Design and Interior Decoration and Ap- plied Design and the Crafts. A very large number of the graduates of these classes have been very suc- cessful as furniture designers and as interior deco- rators. Others have been successful workers in the crafts, opening studios in various cities. A large number have become teachers of design. Costume and Commercial Illustration. The gradu- ates in Costume and Commercial Illustration have been exceedingly successful in commercial work. To per- sons thoroughly trained and original, the positions are very remunerative. To our knowledge, several have received incomes as high as four to five thousand dollars a year. General Art Course. A great many of the gradu- ates in this course have been very successful in com- mercial illustration and many have their full time en- gaged in book illustration. Jewelry and Silversmithing. course in Jewelry, Silversmithing and Chasing have Graduates of the filled important positions in manufacturing houses in New York City and elsewhere, and others are suc- cessfully carrying on independent studios.

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SCHOOL OF FINE-AND APPLIED ARTS FACULTY Ellison, H. L. Parkhurst. Top row—R. P. Ensign, M. Hermann, I. R. Hleitkamp, H. ¢ First from top—J. A. Gurd, F. V. Baker, C. F. Hamann, C. F. Edminster, E. W. Watson, L. B. Pope. Second from top—I. M. Kimball, G. Everest, A. S. Fisher, B. C. White. . Haskell, M. B. Hyde, Mrs. E. F. Shaurman, D. M. Front row—W. S. Perry (Director), G. O. Clarke, I. C. Norton, Mrs. R. E. Allen, F. H. Pierce.