...purchase of these into any extent of detail. The materials are abundant. What we want we can have. To frame a scheme for the purchase of original works...province, but that neither of these is its first object. On this basis we can form an idea of what our collections ought to be, and we can classify arts and...

...though it will recognize that its treasures are useful and free to all of them. " We must assume . . . that the Museum is to be what its name expresses,...province, but that neither of these is its first object. "$ The Museum is for the public and not for any caste or section of it, whether student, teacher, artist...

...the application of the Fine Arts to industry, and the illustration of the Fine Arts by archeology, are both within its province, but that neither of these is its first object." The two questions proposed to me for discussion here were : What are the aims of an art museum? What...

..."that the Museum is to be what its name expresses, a Museum of the Fine Arts; that its primary object is to collect and exhibit the best obtainable works...province, but that neither of these is its first object." i The first section of this book presents a reasoned plea from various angles in support of the aesthetic...

...of genius and skill." Separating the museum even further from its original plan, Gray went on to say "that the application of the fine arts to industry...its province, but that neither of these is its first object."52 As the title of this chapter suggests, the distance that the Pennsylvania Museum traveled...