Gallery, U: Memorial Art-Gallery

Excerpt from The Memorial Art-Gallery: The Inaugural Exhibition, October 8th to the 29th, 1913

HE Memorial Art Gallery has been erected by Mrs. James S. Watson in memory of her son, James G. Averell. Ir. Averell was born in Rochester, December 23, 1877. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1899. He chose Architecture for a profession, and in preparation he pursued a Special course of studies for three years in Harvard University and in Europe. In the Spring of 1904 he began the practice Of his chosen art with the firm of Herbert D. Hale, in Boston. He died in Rochester, November 20, 1904.

Of his ideals and character this building is a fitting memorial, alike in the type of its architecture and in the detail of its decoration, in the thoroughness of its construction and in the delicacy and strength of its design. Its architects, Messrs. Foster Gade, of New York, have brought an understanding sympathy to the task of making the building express perfectly its character and purpose.

Mrs. Watson has given her memorial into the keeping of The University of Rochester, for the enrichment of the whole com munity through the ministry of Fine Art. The administration of the Gallery has been entrusted by the University to a special Board of Directors who are well known for their interest in the cause of culture through Fine Art.

This Inaugural Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists celebrates the completion Of the building and its dedication to the high purpose for which it has been given.

Great care has been exercised by the Directors in gathering the pictures now shown, and every effort has been put forth to make the Inaugural Exhibition representative and Significant.

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