New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-01
i, URGE UNION IN ART
Cooperation Asked by National
Academy of Design.
S5.0oO,O00 FUND NEEDED
Plan Contemplates Exhibition
Galleries and Permanent
Headquarters.

,ro,,hers Of the National Academy of
r,,sig, have decided 10 invite the co-opera-
49,, Of all organizations devoted to the arts
s.s,on IN the city Of New York toward
a., erection of a building in which all art
.,bibitions can be held and the participant
,r,e ORGANIZATIONS can establish their per-
,,-pent headquarters. A plan and agree
,,,,t setting forth all the details were
,don,ed unanimously by the National Acad-
amy # Design at its meeting last night at
Amsterdam avenue and 1o9th street.
Ton societies in all are expected to join
,bo movement. which primarily contem-
mates the raising from private sources Of
f,rd Of SaOOO.Ooo. with which the site can
10 purchased and the new exhibition build
Inc erected. No mention is made of a con-
,or,Dlated site for the building. Although
tho plan originated with members OF the
National Academy Of Design, and has thus
oar becn adopted only by this body, the
c,b.r examinations of artists are said 10
10 N accord with the general outlines OF
tn plan.
\tt.r its abortion the plan and agree
ment were sent last night to the presidents
Of the following organizations. with re-
ouest 10 call special meeting of the bodies
plan before them: The American Water
color Society. TIE New York Chapter.
American Institute of Architects; the Ar
chitectural League of New York, the New
York Water Color Club. the National
Sculpture Society. the Municipal Art So
ci,ty. the Society of Beaux Arts Archi-
tccts. the Mural Painters and the Society
Of Illustrators.
The plan proposed contemplates the for
ration of a corpora tion TO be called the
National Academy Association briefly to
10 known as the association. Its purpose
viii he 20 encourage and develop the study
Of art and to arouse the general interest or
his community IN the fine arts and to ad-
vance tho popular knowledge OF its pro-
auctions.
are the establishing and maintaining in the
CITY a building provided with galleries,
condition spaces, lecture rooms and ac-
,aumodations for organizations devoted 10
work in the various departments OF the fine
ants
The association is to have the power to
make land adopt its own constitution and
hvIaws. II is TO have the power 10 hold the
r,al and personal property necessary Tor
e-lploye is to receive any pecuniary proht
.y-ept n reasonable compensation for SER
woes rendered in carrying out the purposes
q tho association. The constitution cannot
le changed except by a three-fourths vote
of tho trustees.
The first board of trustees is TO be com
posad Of rire acade micians OF the National
Academy of Design and one member each
of the other organizations. with the ex-
ception of the Architectural League ana
trc National Sculpture Society. TO Whom
,.y, places each are allotted on the board
Peside= these twenty artists the board Is
~ nave Eve law members in its member
.r.n These are 10 be the Mayor OF the
,.ii,- of New York the President OF the
ro-ouch Of Manhattan. layman from the
,,;er,l ersrip Of the New York Chamber OF
,nr,u,erce. n layman chosen from the tTuS-
te.s Of the Metropolitan Museum OF A't
and "a lavmau chosen from the boaro OF
.-,-,,s+scs If the New York Public Library
Trio artists on the board are 10 represent
- every line ot artistic endeaVor
tentative plan OF a building for the as
ISOLATION was made on basis OF an area
.r at least fifty thousand square feet. TINS
,..c,ild accommodate all the societies men
,i.ned with floor space for permanent
oualters exceeding twice the space no"
used by~them The linear wall space would
l, doubly sufficient for an exhibition en-
Tracing all the single exhibitions now held
BY these organizations, and there would be
8 door space for sculptors such as mas
never before been obtainable.
The hope of the promoters of the idea Is
,tat a building will be erected suiilcientiv
layce 10 accommodate single annual eN-
t,bition covering ell branches of the srts
Of design The National Academy OF De-
ficn has declared itself ready to contribute
e2oO, OO0 as a maintenance endowment 1und
for the new building. Its other resources
a.e 10 be the gate receipts of the comoineo
annual exhibitions. rental Of the co-operal"
ing societies and the rental of lecture rooms
and galleries.