New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-06
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ART.
IT'S CLOSE RELATION TO COMMERCE
AND MANUFACTURE.
MRS cASDAcE WHEELER SPEAKS IT THE TEN
NEssEE EXPOSITION on THE INFLUENCE OF
ART IN THE ENHANCING or VALUES.

NESSEE EXPOSITION on THE INFLUENCE OF
ART IN THE ENHANCING or vAIuEs.
Nashville Tenn. Oct. 5-Mrs Candace Wheeler.
member OF the Woman's Board of New-York City
Commissioners TO the Tennessee Centennial EXPOSE
ton. read paper before the Ar, Congress in
the Womans Building to-day. Mrs. Wheeler de-
signed the decorations OF the New-iork CITY Room
In the Woman's Building and suggested The color
scheme. and the apartment IS one OF the most at
tractve on the Exposition grounds. The subject OF
Mrs. Wheeler's paper Arr in rs Relation 10
Commerce and Manufactures" and she said in part:
Although this Is a broad and general subject. !
shall confne myself chiefly to-day TO the relation
OF art 10 American commerce and American manu-
features. for that consider is something which con-
us near.y.
"Art-which may be defined as the science Of
beau:y--is apt to be considered Only in the one
aspect OF It's relation to beauty We think OF II at
its best as mysterious and wonderful power which
preserves for US In perpctuy the transient
and impressive moods of Nature. or em5odies the
visions OF the SOU al forms OF unearinly grace. And
II Is tue-reckoned by higher vaucs-that this Is
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within 1t which belongs to aspiration ana !deaty,
grateful JOY at being lifted by 1t above the daily
leve.-when we are thankfu TO look w fiom our alb
soi bling pursuits and Tina there is heaven above
and around and that i,s air is native TO 1t Is
as have said OF the missions OF art to keep us
mission. and it lie no small JOY find in this ethereal
creature common and daily friend. willing TO live
with us in our homes. TO help US in fdshionings
and furnishings and in spite of its skyward ten
denotes or Its skyward possibilities. 10 adapt sef
cordially TO human wants-to very human
amb tons and pursuits
"Of all the products OF the earth which ac-
cumuate. few can be OF use TO mankind without
adapta tion-indeed. none but those which are nee
cssary to the sustenance of the body, those which
actually consume. Trees be fclled and
wood and stone must be buiided into houses before
either can come into actual use. Metals must ne
smelted, wool, cotton and flax must be spun ana
woven before they can be made servceaDle ana
no matter how rude the process or how early the
stage OF II, We shall find in these initial ef-
forts that art has stretched forth her hand ana
added not only an aesthetic satisfaction, but Il
money value to manufacture.
The universal and inexplcabe demand for
the mission of art satisfy This is certainly so
as II is the mission of food to satisfy the demands
OF the body II IL true that we can sarve the spr-
| itual function without the immediate and apparent
| catastrophe which follows starvation Of the body,
| but the human being Will be incomplete ana the
| dual development necessary TO progress Will nave
ceased Every manufacturer knows that II he can
! apply 10 his manufacture the help OF the skilled
designer the artist who give to II syrnrne try
and style and correct and pleasing ornament. the
selling value Is doubled and trebled and quadrpled
And this enhancement OF values VIII hold good
In its application not only to cotton and wool and
fax and TO all minerals. hut 10 wood and stone
! and clay IN all their various uses and applications
| We may set II down fact which Is capable
| OF proof that the commercial value OF manufac
lures be indefinitely increased 10y art. and II ):
| we'll for the manufacturer 10 recognize this truth.