experience will help towards forming their taste. They usually get together a medley of posters, souvenir programs, college pennants, valentines, and snapshot photographs. But in the midst let us see that they have some really good picture which has come as a Christmas or birthday gift. Some strong and interesting heads for a boy’s room are Michelangelo’s David, Rembrandt’s Officer, and Frans Hals’s Laughing Cavalier. A girl of fine feeling likes the heads now commonly separated out by photographers from famous compositions of old masters (Luini, Perugino, Raphael, Titian, etc.); Angels, Saints, or Madonnas. Burne-Jones’s Flamma Vestalis, or Rossetti’s Blessed Damozel are also favorites. Other subjects of suitable kinds for our young folks’ rooms are suggested in the various lists scattered through these chapters.
The practice of taking our children to art museums and exhibitions is one which cannot be too often urged upon parents. It is worth making a great effort and even going a long distance from time to time to afford the child this advantage.[1] Such a visit must be made a genuine treat,—not a disguised lesson,—planned and talked of beforehand as a festive occasion. Naturally it is a part of the festivity to have a car-ride and a luncheon. The first object is
- ↑ In the Metropolitan Museum, New York, delightful art lectures for children have drawn hundreds of juvenile visitors to the place and in Boston professional story-tellers are employed to conduct children’s parties through the Museum. But these public methods, valuable as they are, should not be substituted for the visits of parents, with their own children, to study the pictures together.
