ACADEMY OF DESIGN, NATION

AL, an American art institution founded {n 1825 in New York City, N. Y. The National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists (founded {n 1877) were combined on April 7, 1906. All members of the latter society were absorbed by the parent society. The Society conducts schools for the various branches of art, holds yearly exhibitions and awards prizes and_ scholarships. The membership is divided into two cla es; National Academicians who sign themselves N. A., and A ociate Academicians who sign A. N. A. The Academy is ruled by a Board of Council which consists of the following officers: President, Edwin H. Blash field; Harry W. Watrous, Vice President; Charles C, Curran, Corresponding Secretary; Douglas Vold, Recording Secretary; Francis C.. Jones, Treasurer; W. GranvilleSmith, Robert I. Aitken, Henry Adams, Emil Carlsen, Charles A. Platt, and numbered in 1923; painters, 105; sculptors, 20; architects, 6; engravers and etchers, 2: while the A ociates were about the same in number.