HISTORY AND ENVIRONMENT.
The work offered re-establishes the instruction outlined in the first curriculum
of the University, 1818, the earliest proposal for instruction in art,
architecture and music in any American university. An unrivalled background
is provided for it by the buildings and environment of Charlottesville;
the University group, with its old buildings especially designed to furnish
examples of the various orders "as specimens for the architectural lectures,"
its new buildings designed by Stanford White; the works of sculpture by
Houdon, Ezekiel, Bitter, Borglum, Keck, Shrady, and Aitken; the paintings
and prints presented by Messrs. Thomas F. Ryan, John Barton Payne, John
Armstrong Chaloner and others; the concerts and exhibitions of paintings
brought to the University with part of the income of the McIntire fund.
For the current work in art and architecture there is generous provision of
casts, books, photographs, and lantern slides, as well as a number of envoi
drawings by former holders of the Roman Prize and the Rotch Travelling
Scholarship.
Inquiries from prospective students of Architecture regarding choice of
electives, transfer of credits from other departments or other institutions,
etc., may be addressed to Fiske Kimball, Professor of Art and Architecture.
