This is the 2nd in a series of timelines looking at Rochester art and the Memorial Art Gallery in celebration of the Gallery's centennial in October 2013.
The Memorial Art Gallery was dedicated October 8, 1913.
A group of Friends and Associates of Mr. J. G. Averell donated a memorial lamp to the Gallery.
George Herdle was not a shoo-in candidate for the Gallery's directorship.
Emily Sibley Watson commissioned sculptor William Ordway Partridge to "create a life-size sculpture in fine Carrara marble, as well as a portrait relief of young Averell for its base."
1913 saw the donation of a number of artworks by members of the Sibley & Watson families, the beginning of a long history of such gifts.
Claude Bragdon's terminal for the New York Central Railroad opened in 1914.
In January 1914 it was decided to admit school groups to the Gallery free of charge, when arrangements were made ahead of time.
The first lecture held at the Gallery by the Archeological Society of Rochester featured Dr. Frederick J. Bliss, discussing excavations in Palestine.
In June 1914, the Gallery held the first of several loan exhibitions of paintings owned by residents of Rochester.
Claude Bragdon designed this poster for an exhibition of Modern German Posters at the Gallery in September 1914.
