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FOUNDING THE MUSEUM
In October, 1937, a movement start-
ed by the Art Unit of the Woman’s
Forum culminat-
ed in the meeting
of a small group
by citizens inter-
ested in art re-
sulted in the or-
ganization of the
Abilene Museum
of Fine Arts. Un-
der the leadership
of the Reverend
Mr. Willis P. Ger-
hart, the first
president, the
charter member-
ship roll in the fall of 1939 listed 311
members.
INTERNATIONAL ART
Traveling exhibits brought to Abi-
lene works of art from sixteen coun-
tries of Central and South America and
from Africa, Australia, China and Rus-
sia. Outstanding sculpture exhibiting
primitive African art came from the
collection at the University of Penn-
sylvania Museum which has one of the
best collections in this country.
Ancient art was also represented in
the seventeen hundred year old ex-
amples of Coptic textiles.
The Australian oils was assembled
by the Commonwealth of Australia to
travel over the United States under
the auspices of the Museum of Modern
Art of New York, financed by the Car-
negie Corporation of New York, por-
trayed the history of art in that coun-
try.
The Latin American exhibit was as-
sembled by the American National
Committee of Engraving and was ac-
quired by the International Business
COVER: The picture shows the entrance
to the Museum Galleries. The painting to
the right of the entrance is the Boy With
Apple by Hester Miller. The one to the
left is Mrs. Hubbard by Nicholas Haritonoff.
Both are in the Museum Permanent Col-
lection.
Machine company of New York, who
circulated it throughout America in in-
terest of better understanding our
neighbors to the South.
NATIONAL ART
National art included exhibits of fa-
mous individual artists, as Thomas Hart
Benton, and collections representing
artists throughout America during dif-
ferent periods of our national history,
including one exhibit of Contemporary
Indian art. A wide variety of media,
as photography, silk screen process,
lithographs, etchings, oils, pastels,
weaving, ceramics, etc., were employed
in these exhibits. Art subjects were
interpreted realistically, impressionis-
tically following both conservative and
ultra-modern patterns. The Walkowitz
portrait exhibit showed the handling of
the same subject by 50 artists.
PURPOSES
The organizational group established
the purposes of the Museum as three-
fold: 1, to bring to citizens of Abilene
and its environs exhibits of art ob-
jects of national and international
scope; 2, to sponsor lectures on art and
art projects, and 3, to assemble a per-
manent collection of art objects.
HISTORY
To the fulfillment of those purposes
the museum has devoted its attention
for ten years. At the organizational
meeting, Mr. D. A. Bandeen, manager
of the West Texas
Chamber of Com-
merce, offered
Museum rooms on
the second floor
of the West Texas
Chamber of Com-
merce bui 1 d i n g.
This fortunate of-
fer has made it
possible for the
Museum to con-
centrate its activi-
ties on exhibits,
lectures, and pro-
jects without
thought to exhib-
it space. It has D> A. Bandeen
been a satisfac-
tory place for housing the permanent
collection and for hanging traveling
exhibits. Renovations made in the fall
The Rev. Mr.
W. P. Gerhart
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