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Hagerstown's
Experiment
in
Art
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ONLY
AN
HOUR
and a
half's
drive
northwest
of
Washington
lies
Hagerstown
,
Md.
,
where
there
is
an
unusually
interesting
small
art
museum
which
is
well
worth
a
visit
.
It
is
also in
Hagerstown
that the
Ford
Foundation
has
just
concluded
the
second
year
of a
five-year
experiment
in
closed-circuit
educational
television
, of
which
the
museum
forms
an
important
part
.
The
Washington
County
Museum
of
Fine
Arts
opened
its
doors
in
1931
, the
gift
of
Mr
. and
Mrs
.
William
H
.
Singer
Jr
. The
original
Georgian
brick
building
was
enlarged
' by
two
wings
in
1949
,
presented
by
Mrs
.
Singer
in
memory
of her
husband
,
who
had
recently
died
. An
important
gallery
in the
new
south
wing
is
the
Singer
Memorial
Room
,
where
a
permanent
group
of
William
H
.
Singer's
own
paintings
hang
.
Long
a
resident
of
Holland
and
Norway
,
Singer
depicted
with a
clear
impressionist
palette
the
scenes
he
loved
best
in his
two
favorite
countries
. In the
north
wing
is
a
spacious
Music
Room
and
Auditorium
.
THE
MUSEUM
is
placed
in a
green
park
facing
a
lake
filled
with
swans
.
It
is
a
charming
setting
which
displays
to the
best
advantage
the
low
,
long
building
as the
visitor
sees
it
reflected
in the
waters
.
You
approach
the
Museum
from the
rear
,
entering
a
two-story
hall
which
opens
onto a
Georgian
porch
facing
the
lake
. In the
hall
are
hung
examples
from the
permanent
collection
of the
Museum
.
Among
the
notable
paintings
are a
self-portrait
and a
portrait
of an
old
woman
by
Rembrandt
; a
portrait
of a
lady
by
Titian
; a "
Young
Boy
" by
Mary
Cassatt
; a
landscape
by
Courbet
; "
St
.
Jerome
" by
Joachim
Patinir
;
Pellegrini's
"The
Cyrus
Legend
"; a
landscape
by
Daubigny
; "The
Ascension
of
Christ
" by
Benjamin
West
;
Louis
Eil-shemius
' "
Mt
.
Shasta
" and a
group
of
Dutch
,
French
and
American
paintings
, the
gifts
of
Mr
. and
Mrs
.
Singer
.
Sculpture
is
represented
with
works
by
Rodin
,
Bourdelle
,
Borglum
,
Bartlett
and
Huntington
as
well
as
examples
by
anonymous
French
,
Spanish
and
Flemish
artists
. In the
central
hall
hangs
a
large
Brussels
tapestry
designed
by
Teniers
, and
other
tapestries
and
Renaissance
furniture
were
later
presented
by
Mrs
.
Frederick
Eichberg
.
In the
south
wing
is
a
small
gallery
with
glass
cases
in
which
art
objects
are
placed
.
Currently
the
gallery
is
given
over
to a
loan
display
of
archaic
jades
,
once
the
property
of the
ruling
house
of
China
. In the
room
next
to
it
and in the
two
galleries
of the
north
wing
there
is
a
large
exhibition
of
American
paintings
,
beginning
with
Benjamin
West
and
continuing
with
John
Hesselfus
,
Thomas
Cole
and
Thomas
Sully
.
Later
movements
show
the
work
of
Eastman
Johnson
,
John
Twachtman
,
Child
Hassam
,
Mary
Cassatt
,
John
LaFarge
,
Eugene
Speicher
and
Jonas
Lie
. A
print
exhibition
by
American
artists
completes
the
display
.
AMONG
THE
MANY
activities
of the
Hagerstown
Museum
are
regular
concerts
,
film
showings
and
lectures
held
in the
auditorium
;
monthly
exhibitions
;
art
classes
both
summer
and
winter
for
adults
and
children
; a
children's
gallery
with
changing
shows
;
loan
collections
of
reproductions
and
slides
, and
last
but not
least
the
Closed-circuit
Television
Project
of
Washington
County
.
In
1956
the
Fund
for the
Advancement
of
Education
of the
Ford
Foundation
decided
to
try
an
experiment
in
educational
television
in the
public
schools
, and for this
purpose
chose
Hagerstown
,
which
qualified
satistically
as a
typical
American
town
. The
purposes
of the
plan
were to
find
out
just
how
far
education
could
go
toward
utilizing
television
, and
whether
TV
could
meet
the
threat
of
teacher
shortages
.
State
and
national
educators
have been
watching
the
success
of this
pilot
experiment
,
where
for the
first
time
television
is
being
used
for an
entire
school
system
.
The
Television
Project
is
carried
by
coaxial
cables
to
all
schools
, the
Washington
County
Museum
and the
Public
Library
. The
points
of
origin
are the
studios
of the
Board
of
Education
building
,
two
high
schools
, the
Museum
and the
Library
. The
classes
include
art
,
English
,
history
,
plane
geometry
,
arithmetic
,
science
,
music
and
social
studies
.
THE
HAGERSTOWN
Museum
was
asked
to
take
over
the
art
program
. In the
first
year
of
operation
it
presented
between
50
and
60
art
lessons
by
television
,
directed
to
students
of
grades
one
to
six
, and
special
exhibitions
of
particular
importance
were
televised
to
students
of
various
age
levels
. The
television
system
allows
the
student
to
take
a
guided
tour
of the
Museum
,
visiting
the
exhibitions
under
the
guidance
of the
Museum's
director
,
Bruce
Etchison
,
without
leaving
his
classroom
.
(Interestingly
enough
, the
Museum
has
found
that
far
from
discouraging
attendance
, these
guided
television
tours
actually
bring
many
children
into the
Museum
who
have not
come
there
before.)
The
classes
are
divided
between
Etchison
,
who
has the
fifth
and
sixth
grades
, and
Clyde
Roberts
,
instructor
, at the
Museum
Art
School
,
who
teaches
grades
one
to
four
. In
1957
,
when
only
23
schools
were in the
project
, they
spoke
to
more
than
1000
students
at
each
lesson—a
total
of
more
than
6000
a
week
. This
year
,
when
all
49
schools
throughout
the
county
becomes
a
part
of the
system
, the
figure
will
almost
double
.
TV
lesson
periods
are
limited
to
30
minutes
with
preparatory
and
follow-up
work
done
by the
teacher
in the
individual
classroom
. The
art
curriculum
includes
such
subjects
as
cartooning
;
line
,
shape
and
form
;
movement
;
color
;
perspective
;
landscape
;
sculpture
;
drawing
;
figure
;
portraits
and
sketching
.
Both
Etchison
and
Roberts
are
trained
artists
who
draw
and
paint
in the
TV
studio
right
along
with the
children
in the
classrooms
.
Every
fifth
lesson
is
given
over
to
review
, and at that
time
the
schools
send
in
examples
of the
children's
work
to be
discussed
on
TV
.
Demonstrations
are
held
and
examples
are
selected
from the
Museum's
collections
to
illustrate
the
subjects
discussed
.
Thanksgiving
,
Christmas
and
Easter
art
projects
are
carried
out
on a
community
basis
.
It
is
perhaps
too
early
to
know
what the
results
of the
Hagerstown
educational
television
project
will be, but there
can
be
little
doubt
of the
great
contribution
made
to the
community
by this
dynamic
little
museum
.
Washington
County
Museum
hours
are
Tuesday-Saturday
,
10-5
;
Sundays
and
holidays
,
1-6
;
closed
Mondays
.
Creator
Portner, Leslie Judd
Subject
Anniversaries
Art museums
Hagerstown (Md.)
History
Washington County (Md.)
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (Md.)
Description
Newspaper
article
.
Washington
Post
coverage
of
distance
learning
art
education
.
Publisher (Electronic Version)
Western Maryland Regional Library
Holding Institution
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
Date Original
1958-08-17
Date Digital
2006-02-07
Type
Image
Text
Format
Digital reproduction of 1 newspaper article.
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