New-York tribune., 1910-01-29
APPEAL BY ARTISTS
Urge Fellozo Workers to Help
american School at Rome.

With quarter century to its credit. the
Architectural League of New York is cele
hrating it's anniversary with an exhibition
at its galleries, No. IL West 51th street
Last night the annual dinner was held.
One of the main topics of interest dealt
with was the American Academy of Art a
Rome toward which artists have looked
with so much interest since it's establish
ment.
Money has been and always will be forth
coming to help the American Academy.
felt great pride in representing the United
States in Rome when L viewed institu-
tfon that was such outward and visible
sign of intellectual and artistic expression
of the country" said Lloyd c. Griscom
former Ambassador to Italy, last night. -
In reference to the efforts of the late
Charles A. McKim to aid the cause Of
the American Academy. Grant La Fargo,
president of the society, said last night:
Earning in his busy lifetime such honors
and successes as should be for himself
alone, he simply sought the means to make
1t tell for the lasting benefit of his younger
brothers. Thus was born the American
Academy in Rome. the child of his devoted
and unsWerving love for his profession;
for it he secured great beneficial support.
to il he gave without stint his heart and
his constant endeavor we'll as his money,
benefit
McKim has shown us the way and if we
realize the duty that lies upon us to ad-
vance in all ways and at all times the
cause of artistic education, we will follow
IN that way. The time has come for the
whole professional BODY TO awake to the
opportunity and the need for them to sup
in Rome
Another speaker who was intimate with
the work of the academy was Frank Miles
Day, acting president of the institution.
He said:
You may ask why have we not seen ex-
amples of this interesting form of work
foundation the academy existed through
the contributions, necessarily limited. OF
the artists who founded it, 1t had at
first no local habitation and no money
with which to send students of it's own,
accepting, as seemed wisest, those who
came in other foundations.
1t was not until the splendid generosity
of Henry Walters gave the academy the
ample Villa Mrafiori and the annual con-
tributions of Messrs Morgan, Vanderbilt
Higglnson. Stillman and Frick provided
the running expenses that the trustees were
able to send an students of their own. The
first of these are now beginning TO return
and we may see hung in these halls some
OF their work. Examples of the collabo-
ration of the three arts, 1t is hoped, will
be shown next year.
Edwin H. Blashfeld. president of the
American Society of Mural Painters, said:
Our young men go to Rome to select
from the great masters; not to learn proc
eSses, but to consider results toward
which results, when have chosen the
most fitting, we may turn the processes
which we have perfected at home. We in
America are clever at processes, but we
lack the background for results. That is
why Americans may study wisely in the
city where speech rises behind speech.
The league conferred medals of honor as
follows: Architecture, to Pierre and Michel
lie Brun. for the tower of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company Building; mural
decoration, to Kenyon Cox, for his design
for the county courthouse at Wilkes Barre,
Penn. There was no medal given for
sculpture. but a decorative cross by Ster-
ling Hall received honorable mention
The Henry O. Avery prize and a special
prize in collaboration for a Renaissance
altar and reredos were won by Carl A. He
Der. sculptor. Other prizes went TO Frank
A. Colby. architect Frederick Wilson.
painter; William L. Bottomey. architect
Especial mention on architectural compost
ton and COLOR; B. Lillian Link, sculptor
Marion W. Hackett painter; Gabriel pi
Martino, architect; Anthony Di Francisco.
sculptor Especial mentionD, and Paul Jemi-
son. painter.