. Annual report of the Philadelphia Museum of Art . f Decorative Sculpture, to which he formerly de-voted only a portion of his time. Mr. DAscenzo having also resignedhis position to spend some years abroad, Mr. F. Maxfield Parrish hasbeen appointed to succeed him as instructor in charge of the class inMural Decoration. Mr. Joseph H. Shinn has been appointed Instructorin Design in the Textile School in place of Miss Goodwin who has alsoresigned and gone abroad, and Mr. Simons place as Instructor in 20 Wood Carving has been filled by the appointment of ]\Ir. Frank Mr. Charles E. Dana ha
. Annual report of the Philadelphia Museum of Art . f Decorative Sculpture, to which he formerly de-voted only a portion of his time. Mr. DAscenzo having also resignedhis position to spend some years abroad, Mr. F. Maxfield Parrish hasbeen appointed to succeed him as instructor in charge of the class inMural Decoration. Mr. Joseph H. Shinn has been appointed Instructorin Design in the Textile School in place of Miss Goodwin who has alsoresigned and gone abroad, and Mr. Simons place as Instructor in 20 Wood Carving has been filled by the appointment of ]\Ir. Frank Mr. Charles E. Dana having returned to America, after spendingsome time abroad, has very kindly resumed the position of Professorof Water Color Painting, in which he did such good work for theSchool some years ago. He has gathered an earnest and devoted classof students, and the influence of his example as the most accomplishedmaster of water color which the city possesses can hardly be over-esti-mated. In the Textile School the following specialists have been added to. FROM A rEN-AND-INK DRAWIMG BY VEKNON H. liAILEV, A PUPIL IN THE SCHOOL. the teaching force: Charles N. Butler, , Lecturer on Patents andPatent Laws; Joseph C. Haas, Graduate of the School of Chemistryat Mulhouse, Instructor in Dyeing ; Thomas Capper, Instructor inJacquard Work, and John F. Scott, Instructor in Carding and Spin-ning. Among the additions to the equipment are a good many valuablesets of machinery, which will be found described in detail in the listof donations included in this report, the most notable being the com-plete outfit for a carding and spinning mill which has been placed hereby Ernest Gessner, of Aue, in Saxony. The donation of this machi-nery by a foreign manufacturer furnishes gratifying evidence of theimportance attached to the School and its influence by manufacturersat even so great a distance as Germany. A kiln for firing terra cotta and pottery has been erected in the basement of the School building
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