Identifier: schoolcatalog1910penn (find matches)
Title: School catalog, 1909-1910
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art
Subjects: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art--School catalogs Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art--School catalogs Philadelphia Museum School of Art--School catalogs Philadelphia Museum College of Art--School catalogs Philadelphia College of Art-- School catalogs Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts--School catalogs University of the Arts--School catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art
Contributing Library: University of the Arts (Philadelphia), University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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in this course are: the study and analysisof historic ornament, (Byzantine, Romanesque, Saracenic,Gothic, Renaissance, and modern styles) and plants andflowers from nature, for decorative application in originaldesigns for stencils, curtains, carpets, rugs, oilcloth, lino-leum, lace, embroidery, chintzes, silks, cretonnes and otherprints; stained glass, mosaics, and leather work. Pupils in this class attend lectures on the followingsubjects, on which examinations for the certificate arebased: harmony of color, historic ornament, and principlesof decorative design. The work of the class room is supplemented by study inthe school library under the direction of the teachers, andvisits to industrial establishments in the neighborhood,accounts of these visits being expected from every pupil. The course described above usually requires two yearsfor its satisfactory completion. To be admitted to this class,students must already have completed the work of Class A,or its equivalent. ^SM arsdii
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ORIGINAL DESIGN FOR STENCIL.BY FRANCES N. MCALEER, A PUPIL OF THE SCHOOU 22> : f Ct)e ^;)ilalielp;)ta ©rcijegtra HROUGH the courtesy of this School theWomens Committee for The PhiladelphiaOrchestra is permitted to enclose thiscircular. We desire to call the attention of parentsto the fact that pupils attending schools in or nearPhiladelphia have an educational advantage not foundin every city, viz., the opportunity of enjoying, at amoderate price, weekly concerts by The PhiladelphiaOrchestra. The Philadelphia Orchestra, organized in 1900, andnow composed of 80 musicians under the leadership ofCarl Pohlig, has become the center of Philadelphiasmusical life, and is one of the most important educationalfactors of this city. The musical knowledge acquired by hearing thegreatest works of the great masters performed by skilledmusicians is a necessary part of the education of everychild. It is not the music-student alone who benefitsfrom orchestral performances, but by the constant hear-

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