New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-06-05
AMERICAN ART.
WHY THERE SHOULD BE A NEW ACADEMY


| OF THEIR CLASS.
| TO the HdttOr or The Trtbune.
| SIR: correspondent very properly calls me
to order for not having observed my letter published
in TIE TRIBUNE OF May 10. the distinction between the
! titles Of "Academcidn" and Associate He reminds
me, since, be politely suggests may n" hho"
there Is difference, that Mr. Dolph was not mace an
Acidemcian at the late meeting OF the Council oil the
National Academy OF Design, but only an Associate
there having been Acadrmicians elected th~ year
certainly error but my mistake arose from taAlhS
too literally what everybody was "a! ING. IL asa ho'
arise from my knowing that heCo 10 difference De-
tween the two titles All about me people were saying
noreduloUsly, wonderingly laushingly-"WAo' DO you
think. is the AcadenIcanp or "Who, do you th'hk
Is elected to the Academy r. "Why, DOlphF AHu'
tden no end Of "Ohs" and "Ahs" and " Bless MY
souls" For, speaking loosely, every Associate Ii al
Academcian, because ne member Of the Academy
but. then, he is not Academician vita DiH A.
Aud thought 1ir. Doph was an Acaiemicah WIN
I big a." and buuGeringly wrctc IL 50.
/ The difference between the two titles 49, however,
plain enough. The ude Associate" L. stepping stone
that Acadcmcian, and answers ia way, 10 what
among the MetAOdsts II called, believe, prODauonef
To still further the Of the Churches The as
sOcats may De said 20 sit the anxousscat whe the
acadcmicians full communion. Toe a'Sochtes are
kept waiting this anXOus-seat year IN ana year out
at the good pleasure Of the academlcans. and they Get
u
/ wax slightly mutuous Like Hamlet, they eat the an
prouise-crammed and are naturally rather sharp set
Now and hcn viii turn YEARLY to Ms heiShDor on
the bench AMI say Brother, dout you think u Is almost
time for a changel" Yes" says the Other Oat WIN
are YOU going 10 do about 10" suppose" says the
drst That scrape feet on the floor and iattie
with our canes and umbrellasY And il is m this way
that every now and then there comes an unseemy noise
from the halls cOnsncated 70 the worship OF the Muses.
and outsiders ask with mlsgying what can be the
mattar. Nothing is done about beyond the al-
pearance in the magazines or newspapers OF slaimy
letter written always by the same hand that OF tue gen
tleuae who play, tile port OF orat0rand scribo-inenc
! raj 10 the academy. and Whssc business seems 10
/ be 10 contradict every statement that Is maze
| 10y any outsider 10 its Internal condi'loh
few years ago, when the Impotence Of the Associates
! on the Anxious seat became TOO mnsi for then
/ and the noise Of tIeir canes and umbrellas Win
te Shifting Of their tcet the floor was So 'ud II
WAS impossible any longer for the Elect not 20 hear 81
this gentleman wrote letter 10 one of the magazines
that bad taken sides with the Disconnected and Glazed
nat there was no discomfort az ALL and na; he MIA gone
t to see the noise we had heard. and it proved % be
notlin. but some little boys IN the street. who were
ringing the Iooroeli and running away. II happened
as atferward came ont that at the very time Inc was
writing hs letter Que 0i the Associates, who was oi
plI.ntusopc turu OF mind t-d who, from having had
"a good deal 3i experience rs c'inn,s on"r aHpo'h'eH
b fpc Government i'm settling the diseuntcnts among
Che Indians on the plsi.s-Gt was said tAai ihe Wb
he dlI it wa 10 PAINT Of his best and largest
! pictures and have 1t brought suddenly into Che
place where the c0ntenjug ciief were met in couu-
Gil. and that uo sooner did they ser 10 than theJ
al cave fri -ntencd CS! and -cuttled OF on their
-. +, t, ,.- ,.,r,z.,,,-sr,u, bi, having had 80
much success u ths quarter this gentleman was nope
mi he ,tt b,,. ,i.l success nearer home and ac-
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the con.cudn- Acadcmcaus and Associates wtio to
meet aud If recOIc. ment were not possible
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