History of Milwaukee, city and county . t a departmentof the Milwaukee Normal School; Alexander Mueller was retained as directorand the school has now been housed in splendid quarters, with fine equip-ment in the normal school. The scope of the school is broad and cultural, with an aim to develop skilledworkers in the fine and applied arts, and to train teachers of drawing andhandicraft. That this scope has been realized in larger measure may be seenfrom the singling out by educators of its normal arts course, the demandfor its graduates in the professions, in fine and applied arts, and the pl
History of Milwaukee, city and county . t a departmentof the Milwaukee Normal School; Alexander Mueller was retained as directorand the school has now been housed in splendid quarters, with fine equip-ment in the normal school. The scope of the school is broad and cultural, with an aim to develop skilledworkers in the fine and applied arts, and to train teachers of drawing andhandicraft. That this scope has been realized in larger measure may be seenfrom the singling out by educators of its normal arts course, the demandfor its graduates in the professions, in fine and applied arts, and the place itsstudents hold who go east and abroad for further study. The school year ending in June, 1922, should see 700 pupils enrolled; thereare seventeen members of the faculty, each an expert in his line. Recentlya distinguished painter, Mr. George Oberteuffer, has come to be on the schoolstaff. First Public Art Gallery.—Art progress further reached a high point in1888 when an event of great importance occurred, which was the founding. OLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC, XOW SCHUBERT THEATER, 1870 THE PROGRESS OP ART IN MILWAUKEE 691 by Frederick Layton, early in the year, of the Layton Art Gallery. Its orig-inal trustees were Messrs. Frederick Layton, George Dickens, John L. Mitchell,James Clinton Spencer, Francis B. Keene, B. K. Miller, William P. MacLaren,Edward Sanderson, William Plankinton and Jerome R. Brigham, all civic-spirited men and interested that their city should have an art gallery and thatappreciation of art be created in the public taste as one of the finer things inlife. The originator of the project, the man who gave his fortune to this greatart enterprise, Frederick Layton, bought the land, erected the building, andgave originally thirty-eight paintings valued at $50,000, with further generousgifts as time went on, and an endowment fund of support to the sum of$100,000. April 5, 1888, saw the formal presentation to the corporation andthe opening to the public of the gall
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