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Title: Annual report of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Philadelphia Museum of Art Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. Annual report Pennsylvania Museum of Art. Annual report
Subjects: Philadelphia Museum of Art Art
Publisher: Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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eye, do not suggestto the art student or the artisan the successive stages of develop-ment through which they have been finally evolved. The studyof the processes employed in the different arts is sure to result ina fuller appreciation of the technical difficulties which have beenovercome in the production of the beautiful examples of humanhandicraft in which the Museum abounds. The year ending May 31, 1906, has been one of the most pros-perous in the history of the Museum, and greater progress hasbeen made in the reclassification and rearrangement of the col-lections than in any preceding period of equal extent. Numerousvaluable gifts and purchases have been received and installed,and much of the less desirable material which has accumulatedduring the past quarter of a century has been replaced by objectsof greater artistic merit. Thus the standard of the exhibits hasbeen greatly improved and the Museum has kept abreast withother American Museums in that remarkable art movement which
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13 began to manifest itself in this country some three or four years ^^^ WORK ACCOMPLISHED. Substantial progress may be reported in the printing of im-proved labels. This work is done in the building, directly underthe supervision of the Curator. Already over three-fourths of theobjects in the Museum have been relabeled and the exhibits havebeen greatly improved thereby. Representatives of other Muse-ums have visited us during the past year for the purpose of ob-taining information on the system of installation and labelingwhich has been adopted here. In September of last year, Mr. George R. Harding, the well-known art expert, of London, England, spent several days at theMuseum in rearranging the collections of enamels. A number ofmodern imitations and forgeries were discovered, which have beenplaced in a separate case and properly labeled as such, for the in-struction of the public. The collection, as now installed, is prob-ably the most representative one of the kind in this country

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