Arizona republican., 1914-10-10
WOULD PLACE PHOENIX LIN
 THE AR1 MAP
Exhibition to be Held Here i'll January Will Attract Many Artists Who Visit This Section Every Fall and Winter.

l To place Phoenix on the art map,
 to make this city the Mecca for
 scores of artists who annually visit l this state, to exploit the great Amer
 lcan desert, to encourage local art l lsts, these are a few of the objects of the art exhibition to be held here
 in January. Although given under the auspices of the art and litera
 ture department of the Woma n s 1 club, the exhibition will not be d l club affair, it's breadth and magni- tude making it an event of impor-
 tance to the city and the state. It
 has received the personal endorse
 ment of Mayor George U. Young. to 1 whom the committee in charge ad l dressed a communication yesterday | urging the cooperation of the city commission. The commission was
 asked to make small appropriation
 that will be necessary to finance what Mrs c. F. Ainsworth, commit
 tee chairman, hopes will be the first annual art exhibition and the initial step toward a Phoenix Art Academy.
 As the mayor has advocated this
 I'lan from it's adoption last spring, it
 Is understood he will bring the mat 1 ter before the commission at once, although the fund is not required be- | fore January l.
 Immediate action will advance the
 movement rapidly and the details will then be considered.
 Tt is not our intention to solicit | personal subscriptions" said Mrs
 H. B. Wilkinson, president of the
 club, last evening. We feel justified
 in seeking the support of the city m account of the benefits that will be I reaped from the exhibition we pro- pose to hold. If we receive that CO., i operation, no entrance fee will be I asked, and after the first day, Janu-
 ary 12, which will be given over to club members and the press, there
 will be but one private view, and that for the school children. At any
 other time the general public will be 1 admitted to the club house to view | the brush work of noted California artists as well as those of local fame The exhibition has aroused greater interest in art matters than | has ever been evinced, and we are confident that it will encourage art l ists to come to Phoenix where there are such wonderful opportunities in
 their particular field. The annual
 meeting of the Arizona Federation of Women's clubs will be in session
 January 1922. and it is possible the pictures will remain hung during that time, as there will be many
 prominent women here from all over the state who would greatly appre- ciate an event of the kind"
 Mrs. Ancil Martin, who. with Mrs. Ainsworth, Mrs. Wilkinson and Mrs. w. c. Foster, is acting on the com-
 mittee in charge, is delighted that public sentiment has been aroused favoring the exhibition.
 "Asidef rom it's cultural advantages it is great advertising medium for Phoenix" she declared. Phoenix will become widely known in a new way. All the art magazines will de- vote space to the art center of Ari- zona. There are wonderful possibili- ties here for an artist"
  for at a recent exhibition in San Francisco, there were Arizona pie
 lures by Maynard Dixon, Rollins. A. W. Best, A. Joullin, H. w. Hansen
 and Joseph Greenbaum.
 A small but representative collec- ton by California artists will be d feature of the local exhibition. A collection will be invited from
 group of talented young Phoenicians who are now in New York. Miss Helen Ely, who is connected with the
 Mcclure syndicate; Kenneth Cham berlain with Puck and Leighton
 James with the Ainslee magazine. H. B. Anderson, teacher of MT. James and art instructor at the Tempe Normal, will be asked to contribute sketches by his students.
 Instead of a cash prize, the state
 will be asked to purchase the best
 picture There will be three prizes for the best picture by an Arizona artist, for the best and second best picture in the exhibit.
 Benjamin c. Brown, one of the foremost artists in the west, who will be in charge of the California art exhibit at the Panama Pacific exposition, may act as judge. Everett Maxwell, curator of the Gallery of Fine Arts and Applied Arts at Exposition Park. Los Angeles and former art critic of the Graphic, has signified his intention of being present.