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city, will hold it's tenth annual con-
vention at the Metropolitan Museum
OF Art, New York, on the 18th, 10th
aud-17th of May. Up to year ago
all but one of these conventions were
held in Washington; then, owing to
Wartime conditions, it was deemed
advisable to have the meeting else
where Last year the convention
went to Detroit; this year it goes to
New York; next year 1t is hoped that
it will again be held in Washington.
The sessions of the convention viii
all be held in the lecture hall of the
Metropolitan Museum.
Both morning and afternoon sessions
ton the first day. May Is, will be de-
voted to the subject of war memo
rials. Among the speakers will be
Charles Moore, chairman of the ma
tional commission of fine arts OF this
city; Morris Gray. president of the
Museum of Fine Arts; Edwin II;
Blashtield the distinguished mural
painter; Cass Gilbert. the architect OF
the new Treasury annex, the WOOL
worth building. New York and the
Minnesota state capitol, and Freder-
ick baw Olmsted, the landscape ar,
chitect, who during the war served
on the. housing commission. 80,
be devoted to the work of the Ameri-
can Federation of Arts, which, De-
cause of after-war needs. will be con-
siderably brOadcned in scope among
the speakers at this session VIII oe
Oscar s Jacobson of the University
of Oklahoma; Pedro ]. Lamos OF the
Leland Stamford. jr.. University OF
California. and also probably Eosar
L. HeWett of the Santa Fe Museum OF
Nev-~Mexico, and John Cotton iyani
lie
whom are taking an active part IN
advancing the knowledge and appre-
citation Of art in this country
The afternoon session on frluay
will De devoted to the subject OF al.
and ~I,abor" with the purpose OF
showing how art can be made an in
struasnt both of Americanizatlon ana
of reconciliation. Joseph Penneli VIII
speak on Pictorial Publicity" treat
ing of the poster as medium OF COIL
munication; Gerrit A Beneker VIII
present paper on Art as a Con-
structixe Force" the result of his own
experiments as an artist empioyed on
large construction works. both in this
city and in Cleveland. Henry W. Kent
will tell what the metropolitan Mu-
scum is doing to assist the deVeiop-
fnenf. of industrial art. not only
through the department of Industrial
art, in direct contact with the man
ufanxurers and artists.
On Saturday there will be but one
session. that to be held in the morn
ing. The general topic Will be ART
and the Nation" Charles ID. Waicott'
secretary of the Smithsonian 1ns:itd-
tion, will be one OF the princlpai
speakers. and his subject will be The
National Gallery of Art. Thomas
whitney Surette will speak on the
subject of Music for the People.
Through the Cooperation OF the Art
Museums"
: ALL of the papers presented will be
brief, constructive and open to gen.
eral discussion.
!. On the evening of the 14th, proceed
ing the opening of the convention,
reception will be given the delegates
and members in attendance in the
Morgan Memorial Hall of the Metro
politan Museum. There Will be music.
Among those in the receiving party
will be Mrs Robert w. de Forest, Mrs.
Herbert Adams, Mrs John w. Alex
ander, Miss Cecilia Beaux, Mrs E. H.
Hartman, Mrs. H. o. Havemeyer, Mrs.
Otto II. Kahn and Mrs. Cornelius Van
derbilt.
In addition to this reception dele
gates. to this convention and active
members in attendance will be given
the pfivilege of viewing some OF the
private art collections in New York
for example, as those OF Henry Z.
Frick, Mrs. H. o. Havemeyer, George
Blumenthal, Senator Clark, and the
library of j. Pierrepont Morgan.
On Saturday afternoon, after the
final session. a reception with music
will be given in honor Of the delegates
in the-Fine Arts building by the Ma
of Woman Painters
and Sculptors. It is quite probable
thatsa number of the artists studios
will-iikewise be specially open 20 those
atteuding this convention.
. The attendance from washington
be large, as the follow
ing Organizations here are chapters:
The. Arts Club, League for the Decora-
tio.,- of the Public Schools OF the Dis
trict OF Columbia, the American Civic
Association, the Archaeological lnsti-
Of The Archaeological Institute OF
Amer:ci.. the Corcoran Galley of Art.
the Public School Art Teachers Asso-
citation, Society of Washington Art
lists, Washington Chapter OF the Amer
ican Institute of Architects. Washing
ton Water Color Club. Washington So
;ciety of the Fine Arts.
3 The attendance at this convention
will also be increased by the fact that
the College Art Association has its an
nua1 meeting in New York three days
preceding the opening of the fedora
sociation of Museums will hold its an
nual meeting the first of the following
week.
The last of the important exhibitions
for the current season is that of the
National Academy of Design which is
now In progress at the Fine Arts build
ing. 215 West 57th street, New York.
This exhibition comprises 2S4 ex-
hibits, fifty-three of which are works
in sculpture. Among the painters rep
resented are Leonard Ochtman. Ed
ward W. Redfeld. Jonas Lie. F. Luis
Mora, Charles Warren Eaton, Birge
Harrison, ]. Francis Murphy. F. Bal
Carlsen, Childe Hassam, Albert L.
Gron, Gardner Symans, Henry B.
Smell, Ernest Lawson and Robert
yonnoh.
the Maynard prize. Edward W. Red
field and Gardner Symons were
awarded the Altman prizes; Robert
Strong Woodward, Erccle Cartotto
and Dimes Carlsen the Hallgarten
prizes. and Jerome Myers the Thomas
B. Clark prize.
Dimes Carlsen is the son of Emil
Garrison and vet a lad. a schoolboy.
His paintings of still life, however,
have for number of years now been
given a prominent place in the prin-
cipaI exhibitions held in New York
and elsewhere and not only received
commendation, but in almost every
One HUM