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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...Kurtzworth. Nine month courses in drawing, painting, illustration, decorative, applied and commercial design, modeling and interior decorating are offered principally to citizens of Grand Rapids who are allowed a reduction on their tuition in all day, evening and children's classes. Applied Arts Summer School, 2210 South Park Ave., Chicago, was established in 1909 and incorporated in 1912 under the directorship of Florence H. Fitch of Indianapolis. Methods, mechanical drawing, posters, home planning, costume design, applied art and art appreciation are offered to about one hundred and sixty students. The courses are given only in the summer months. The Art Institute of Chicago, Lake Front, opposite Adams St., Chicago, 1ll., is probably one of the best equipped and most thoroughgoing art institutions in the country. It was incorporated in 1879 and is the continuation of the old Academy of Design, established in 1866. Until 1914, the late William M. R. French was the director of the Institute. He has been succeeded by George William Eggers. The school offers full courses of instruction in academic drawing and painting, illustration, decorative design, modeling and sculpture, ceramic painting, architecture and normal art. About seven hundred are enrolled in the day school, five hundred in the Saturday classes, four hundred in the evening classes and three hundred in the summer school--a total of nearly nineteen hundred. Forty-three states of the Union, as well as a number of foreign countries, are represented among the students. Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, 81 East Madison St., Chicago, maintained by Carl N. Werntz since 1903, gives instruction in fine, decorative and normal art and dress design, with emphasis on the vocational and commercial aspects. The Com...

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