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MUSEUM Tue Museum oF Art is one of the oldest divi- sions of Rhode Island School of Design, and its origins go back to the earliest years of the institu- tion. Through the years, with the help of devoted friends and staff, it has developed as a working collection of choice examples of the world’s art arranged to present a cross-section and a chrono- logical sequence of the history of civilization. This aspect of the collections, however, is em- phatically not to be thought of as its principal phase, for no one ever goes to a museum primarily to learn about history or the story of civilization as such. The reason one goes to a museum—the National Gallery, London, the Louvre, or such a smaller place as Fenway Court, Boston, all come to mind—is to see superlatively beautiful works of art, no more, no less. And this is exactly the reason why anyone would visit our Museum—to see such treasures as the head of Ptolemy VI, the Romanesque ivory, the Tintoretto, the Houdon, the Oudry, or our nineteenth century pictures. It is the matter of becoming familiar with the best and then renewing the familiarity time and again which makes for the impact of a work of art. Many years ago Earle Row, the distin- guished first Director of this Museum, wrote of the French painter—Millais, I think it was— who said, ‘I know my Louvre! and Mr. Rowe made the plea that each of us in the region can and ought to take the same pride and sense of personal identification in our Museum. A museum has, naturally, three functions: to acquire, to preserve, and to publish. In the broadest sense these mean to garner together the finest and loveliest of the world’s visual treasure regardless of historic significance, to put these works into the best of possible condition and to show them as gracefully as possible, and to make them known to all who may be interested (and, if possible, to those who may not care, too) through the various means at the Museum’s dis- posal. The Museum has now for some years through the Museum Committee, that group of disinterested people who are charged with a gen- eral superintendance of the Museum, devoted friends, and the staff, been at work to improve its holdings by buying or accepting only those objects of the highest quality and refusing to buy or accept something merely because it fills a gap. The installations are constantly in a state of re- finement so that one may now find the Museum an exceedingly pleasant place in which to be. And the Museum, through its Museum Notes, which constitute three issues annually of the Bulletin of Rhode Island School of Design, as well as the independent publications of its staff, and through its other activities in the way of public relations, is making its treasures known. DR. JOHN MAXON Director of RIS.D. Museum
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i a mt | eRe eee ee oe ee ACADEMICS ak HE BASIC AIMS Of the Division of Liberal Arts are inherent in its title, namely, that the several areas of study, whether it be I’inglish Composition or World Literature, His- tory of Civilization or the histories of art and architecture, the social sciences or mathematics and physics are considered as arts and illustrate the same principles of design as are studied and applied in the professional fields. The liberal arts subjects are not considered as separate from those studied as design but rather as harmoni- cally enriching and amplifying the same prob- lems as occur in design. Secondly, the joint pur- pose of the division is to liberate the student, to open up different avenues of approach thereby inducing a flexibility and freshness of attack that is one of the attributes of the successful designer. The study of man, his aims and his ideals and the ways and means by which he has expressed these in a variety of circumstances both in the con- temporary world and in former times is the core of the liberal arts studies. His nature and his relation to society are investigated to accord with the fundamental purpose of all education, that of self-discovery, self-criticism and self-under- standing of one’s manifest duties and responsibil- ities as a social being. The fact that Rhode Island School of Design is a college with power to grant bachelor’s degree necessitates that any graduate will have been required to have been introduced to several of SS == ° ) eee NN re oft S ——s ° LIBRARY the liberal fields of study. The constant challenge to the division is how best to present and integrate these several subjects with the training in the professional areas. One method is appreciating the strong ability of the students to use visual material as both inducing new approaches to their work and deducing valid, underlying prin- ciples. Hence, considerable effort in research on the design and production of visual aids and their use is characteristic of the members of the divi- sion’s faculty. These aids are naturally supported by a careful selection of texts and reference material. | Of greatest assistance to the faculty and the students is the school library in providing an abundant source of material both literary and visual. A pleasant and informal atmosphere has been created which fosters serious study and equally important, delightful browsing. The fact that most of the books and periodicals are readily accessible on open stacks tends to break down the assumed compartments of learning and the stu- dent is free to delve into unaccustomed areas of thought. The facilities of the library, consisting of books related to the field of art, the mounted color reproductions and photographs, the clipping files and the slides form together one of the outstand- ing collections in America and its value both to the faculty and the students in their endeavors is of the utmost importance. A. E. SIMONSON Chairman, Division of Liberal Arts
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