QUARTERS AND EQUIPMENT.
The School of Fine Arts has its headquarters in the building at the south
end of West Range, which has been specially adapted to its use. It comprises
a lecture and exhibition hall, architectural draughting rooms, dark
rooms and offices. A large studio for freehand drawing and painting is
located in Cabell Hall.
Since the foundation of the School the University has already acquired
the nucleus of an important collection of works of art, to supplement the
considerable number of fine portraits and other paintings in its possession.
As a gift from Hon. John Barton Payne it has received a large collection of
etchings, engravings and lithographs, including numerous and important examples
of the work of Rembrandt, Whistler, Haden, Turner, Legros, Zorn
and other masters, and admirably illustrating the history and processes of
the graphic arts. An important canvas ascribed to Rubens has just been
presented by John Armstrong Chaloner, Esq.
For the current work in art and architecture there is generous provision
of casts, books, photographs, and lantern slides. The casts include
geometrical models, motives of ornamentation, architectural elements, elements
of the figure, and a number of full figures from the antique, as well
as fine modern figures. Beside the books on the history of art and
on construction kept at the University Library an exceptional departmental
collection of works valuable for reference in architectural design
and detailing, is provided in direct connection with the draughting room.
Among the numerous important sets of folios are the Grands Prix de
Rome, Médailles des concours d'architecture, Monuments antiques, Fiagments
antique, Edifices de Rome moderne, The Georgian Period, Work of
McKim, Mead and White, etc., etc. These are supplemented by some
three thousand photographs, and by the collection of five thousand lantern
slides, as well as by a number of
envoi drawings by former holders
of the Rotch Travelling Scholarship.
