| New York (State) - Law - 1870 - 1380 pages
...New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that... | |
| Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1878 - 992 pages
...incorporated in 1870, "for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a Museum and Library of Art, of encouraging and developing the study of the Fine Arts, and the application of art to manufactures and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, to... | |
| James Grant Wilson - America - 1893 - 470 pages
...proposition. The result was the incorporation, in the following year, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "for encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts and the application of art to manufacture and practical life," — John Taylor Johnston being chosen president. Two years... | |
| New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1096 pages
...incorporated '' for the pin-pose of establishing and maintaining in said city a museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and to that... | |
| Adolf Bernhard Meyer - Museums - 1905 - 414 pages
...METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. "For" the purpose of establishing and maintaining a museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine...application of arts to manufactures and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that "The cases are of wocxl, with... | |
| United States National Museum - 1905 - 814 pages
...METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. " For the purpose of establishing and maintaining a museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine...application of arts to manufactures and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that "The rases are of wood, with clumsy... | |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Board of Trustees - Art - 1905 - 126 pages
...largely educational, and was not merely that of " establishing " a great collection of art objects, but " of encouraging and developing the study of the fine...application of arts to manufactures and practical life and of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects." PUBLIC SUPPORT. The reorganization and... | |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) - Art - 1905 - 438 pages
...and mainta1ning in said City a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of fine arts, and the application of arts to manufactures and practical life, of advanc1ng the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Tariff - 1908 - 664 pages
...factor as works of art. As the national resources of this country have been developed and the afiluence of its people increased, the necessity of cultivating...be brought nearer to the people and made accessible nrt only to the wealthy, but to all classes of our population, and this ran only be stimulated through... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. [ - Tariff - 1909 - 1124 pages
...factor as works of art. As the national resources of this country have been developed and the aflhience of its people increased, the necessity of cultivating...practical life, is being more and more recognized. ulated through a liberal policy in opening, instead of shutting, as we do at present, our doors to... | |
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