Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
WILL MAKE CITY
GREATARTCENTER
LEAGUE PLANS ERECTION OF
GALLERY
FAMOUS DIRECTORS CONSULTED
BY MEMBERS
Association Hopes to Establish Per.
manent Exhibit of Pictures and
Sculpture, and Exploit the
Drama and Music

Bearing in mind the prediction that
has come from critics across the sea-
that the next great art center will be
In America, members of the newly in
corporated Fine Arts league have start
ed that institution in order to make
Los Angeles the Mecca for art lovers
the world over.
Mrs. w. II. Housh, the past president
of the organization, says in the elabor-
ate and beautiful prospectus of the
leagues work just being got out in
handsome form by Fred D. Lang & Co.:
"At the present time there is nothing
on the Pacific coast worthy to be called
a fine art gallery"
With this aim in view the idea of
furnishing something to the many Wis
itors and tourists who come to Los
Angeles and wish to see something in
the nature of art, the Fine Arts league
has been established to encourage the
development of interest in art as a
public possession as well as to estab-
lish center for the enjoyment of art
In the form of permanent galleries of
pictures and sculpture and for exhibi-
tion purposes and for exploitation of
the arts of the drama and music.
The intention is to provide building
but which will add something to the
worlds worth.
The first effort is to encourage the
true art spirit in this community and
bring about better appreciation of art
in Los Angeles.
Consult Art Directors
Correspondence has been carried on
with art directors OF the best art gall
leries in the United States with the
result that many important sugges-
tions have been received as to build
Ing, lighting, classification and the
like. The managers of the new art gal
leries of the league will have expert
Judgment at their service in planning
the galleries and the management will
profit by the experience of those who
have studied conditions at home and
abroad.
Memorial halls are being planned
which are limited only In that they
must conform to the general style of
architecture adopted by the league.
A loan exhibit will be one striking
feature of the gallery. This would COM
prise such interesting matters as au-
tograph copies of a book of poems or
complete musical score; beautiful
textiles, an excellent piece of metal
work, old lace. ivories, enamels, lac
quers--the idea being that the owners
might loan or bequeath these to the
leagues exhibit.
The museum connected with the
league will include objects of interest
not belonging especially to the south
west.
In the great structure, or group of
structures, planned for the future the
plan is to have schools of expression
and colleges for art training, lecture
rooms, symphony hall, Libraries,
great organ, auditorium and place
where children may be trained along
artistic lines.
Advocates Music Hall
Furthermore. we should build
juvenile theater that shall stand for
dramatic representations of such pure
and noble character as will fill the
minds of the young with reflections and
images as to give rise to ideals capable
of molding and influencing for good
their entire lives" is a summary of
tht statement of Mrs. Berthold Ba-
ruch, the corresponding secretary of
the league.
Harley Hamilton Of the board of d.
rectors Of the league advocates the
building of a music hail. thing which,
he declares Los Angeles needs most
at the present time. This structure
would not only house the Symphony
orchestra, but contain as well a good
musical library. The hall would be
used for. musical festivals, saenger-
tests, eisteddfods and the like and thus
make Los Angeles the musical center
of the great southwest.