New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-23
PLEAF0R AMERICANART
pEQUAL TO THAT ABROAD %
IL. HOpkinsOn Smith at Dinner IN
Honor of j. @. Il. Ward.


equal TO much OF the Wanted productions OF Eu-
rope who must await the doubtful reward of
posthumous approval. The commercial forcing OF
prices art productions came in for caustic COM
grant Mr. Smith said, in part:
en- no other part OF the world does there exist
PAINTERS as in the United States The art Of q Fn
land. France, SGeTmany: italy, Spain. and even OF
thing else tnan the loyalty and depreciation and
pTgy ,b ne eTceTF t "a t S,sa1 Owl haVe art
Ger OF price and approval-(quite different matter
from ef oIr bss ignore to eat extent the
and homes with the works OF foreigners. Only
painter Is ended and the dealer corFals what IS
PARTICULAR brush doubles and qua6rupies the ' price rice
only then is their work appreciated That the deal
storage Tor years, having paid but a few hundred
dollars for it, in order 10 reap the many thousands
Nor is his new condition ssve srs years
9so @ s ~ TyEe 4Fot 6qnssean pauhigny ana
each critics OF those days ridiculing their efforts
just the critics Of day ridicule the works OF
day laugh at the English school OF portrait paint
craze Even that great master Mr. ThackeTag goes
ont Of his way 70 oelittle Sir Tnomas Lawrence by
Coming down 70 our present time there IS no
nelghboring cities we have group OF living land
Eeepe painters the quality Of whose work IS not
os Best "a EQUAL the sF B canTaes a9
any group OF any age or nationality
Che appreciation OF the works OF our best men and
n E iiS william I0 Evans and Sai few
others have done what they could TO encourage our
members of the royal families of finance: but this
after al so 9ny Ss11Rg What hat our painters
are looking around for marble waite enough TO build
quality being the same and Of that there is not the
slightest doubt it is. to use the vernacular of the
who has both means and wall space. 20 see that
American art takes the place IT deserves IN the art
iided
dorado TAFT. OF Chicago, spoke in eulogy OF the
guest OF the evening. recalling IN pleasant terms
some OF his achievements. In part he said:
This untaEned land OF ours has offered not a few
sGong men TO the world-men who have stood
, % .i ell .ss anu l1o s a lie sSaS
thoughts and voiced them in words OF their
doing this in literature and in our art. They
told that our writer's copied after the English.
the German, the French and heaven knows what;
our painters were clever as Cinnamon in imita-
non, IS faithful as the chameleon in rejecting the
while our sculptors were at first little Canovas
and Thorwaldsens and later ''nake-believe" Paris
We are not so proud OF this kind OF versatility
our artists be skilled but we demand that they shall
first Of all be men with something TO say. Person
S{ has come to count i0F more than manual 'eA
II is to do honor TO a great artistic personality
that we are gathered here tonight. We thank this
brave man, come down 20 US from a former gem
has been. He Is one Of the makers Of American
history. Cnehaken by criticism unmoved by the
winds OF ephemeral fashion, he has stood as solid
and invincble his own statues for the true dig
nifty OF our national art.
of achieyements, but may be permitted 70 name
.o or shTee 81 IhS me tngisn & ,a st
suggestive Indian statue that know The Pill
eoIoepto The General Thomas IN Washington
viii ever rank as one OF our finest equestrian
ssa1ues; The noble Washington. of Wall street; the
Intensely human Horace Greeley. OF the Tribune
B1oing-vEhat range those two f
lyni II takes greet man 70 conceive the soul or
great man AT HaLo iooAeo a. lls suLJeSl ~
level eyes, and he has given US there one OF the
Eorthiest works Of modern times How that strong,
Confident pose Of the BODY the Ieonine head up
lfted-there is nothing nlanlier IN all modern
felt II He put himself into those great works OF
bis. lie has been true 20 the vision ana We are are
NE OF which il is the outward expression
C. Howard Walker. Of Boston in his address
eulogi7ed architecture. saying
In the association Of the three great arts-paint.
ing sculpture ana architectare.5 iS
sculpture TO its aid IN it's highest expression but
because u mas an l1al.ioGaI d
sculpture exist for aesthetic means alone while
architecture is very existence TO its utihta-
n has strange and very human character. the
personality Of a building. Conceived for the habita-
lion Of man. whether be be living or dead sub
Esryent TO his needs or else aeH0ld % puFPoss, s
II protects him becomes his memorial while II
records his needs. There is no greater Panegyrio
skill the very ethics and morals OF people tnen
consplcuOusly enblazoned in Its architecture Lat
eratuTe, music. aRect but few compared 10 those
affected 1y the constant enNironsneTt,S0I man t
world that are fits teachers. The PaTthenon frleze
snd While srchtectISre announces in glowing or
damnng evidence the life and the sl5ill and the
and sculpture TO proclaim tts ideals.
IN the close association OF sculpture VIII aIGi
fFn1 "a
exerts a certain action upon the sculpture by mere
mass in most cases but often also certain autoc-
lnends allegiance even from that when y eIl-
the sculpture associated with architecture has
great freedom Of expression; ats to
perpeiuate its idea. u s. the last WORD which can
q once places edace IA the highest RANKS OF 81
AFTER all the utiiitarian purposes are Inlilied;i
after an Just pEopoTtionS ere cPhG 1n;t Tnsiestx
splendor and beauty are obtained me oootS ot me
R q tSSt %5o f fe sRao Sg seem vos
guests OF painting and scolPt1Te.e neso 1i 'H9
CARTONS prOclalming architecbufe > "eis SOU
The dinner was 20 celebrate the seventy-seventh
birthday Of Mr. Ward. Many prominent sculptors
ana artists were present from this city. Boston
ana Chicago silver loving cup was sent TO Mr..
Ward by the committee OF the Soldiers and Sailors
Monument at Syracuse, which the sculptor designed
without charge
Besides Mr. Ward. who sat az the right OF sDen-
Ger Trasl president OF the club. the others az the
chief table were dorado Taft the Chicago sculptor
%ho acted toastnasteT; C h2Eard W sIISs5'
ne Rev. Or. Ernest q. stires. OF 81
Lhomas's Church: Edward u Shepard, FREDERICK
9lelman president Of the National ACADEMY OF
Design; George 3. Post, president OF the New York
Ennpter Of The American Institute OF ATcnlnectsi
Sir caspar Puraon Clarke and Charles Robinson
Lamb. Among the other guests were the presi-
cents Of the various art societies IN Mammalian ana
Brooklyn.
After the diners had drunk health TO MI Ward
~ he applause had subsideo the guest az he ei
hanked his hosts Cor the graceful recognition tley
ea shown 10 sculpture, IN honorlng me seulp.uIe