The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-28

HNHE Municipal Art Society OF
New York is to conduct a COM
= petition to secure designs for
the Improvement of the small triangu-
lar park in Greeley Square, bounded by
Broadway, Sixth avenue and Thirty
nth street. Z. II. Macy & Co. are Of
fering. through the Municipal Art So
ciety. first, second and third prizes fol
such designs as meet with the APP
prevail of the jury.
The architect or draughtsman sub
hitting the winning design will also
receive, II II Is carried out, compensa-
ton for his services in its execution
The competition is open to all archi-
tects or draughtsmen living or having
a place OF business in Greater New
York. Six weeks will be allowed for
the preparation of drawings, and appli-
cations for the programme, which may
be obtained up to and including Sep
TENDER 20, should be made to the secre-
tary of the Municipal Art Society, 119
East Nineteenth street, New York city.
Exploding the old theory advocating
an early beginning in the study OF art
and praising the American college for
its work in the last five years toward
improving our national sense of @sthe-
) tics, Joseph Cummings Chase, recently
a. tHA A Ia A.
clared yesterday that the college
trained man OF to-day has the best
chance of all to become great artist
Even with the handicap OF a later
start in his art studies the college
graduate, declares Mr.. Chase, will soon
outstrip the boy who began his art ap-
prenticeship after completing elemen-
tary schools, for in art as In all other
professions he who has learned to con-
centrate and has trained his mind al
WAYS has the marked advantage.
"AIl our best colleges and universe
ties, particularly within the last five
years." he says, have been intro
ducing new and better courses In de-
veloping aesthetics, passing from free
hand drawing to mechanical drawing
awakening in the student the faculty
of originality and truer grasp of the
real meaning of color and beauty of
form. And this is a training that not
only makes a notable contribution tc
the national intellect, but also fills a
real need In many Of our present day
professions: architecture, engineering
advertising. interior decorating, AID sc
on. In giving this training our col
leges have been doing a great work
but they should go still further. with
added facilities and more Instructors
90 that in time every college graduate
will know what beauty is, will APP
preciate the essential points of color
harmony and contrast, and will thereby
be able to make their homes attractive
as well as comfortable. and will also be
In q position to consider intelligently
any problems involving aesthetics which
may come up IN their business or pro-
fession. Many promising young art
lists are found in our college art
courses, but the value of these courses
lies not in this point alone. All our
students should be given arts rudi-
ments to the end that art in America
can develop in a really large way
With more general understanding and
more intelligent appreciation. All our
young men should take advantage OF
the excellent courses our colleges now
offer, and those who plan to make art
their life work 1 urge most strongly
to complete their college education
before turning to the grinding labor OF
the studio. They will find 1t well worth
their while in later years"
!. Joseph Cummings Chase who is ar
Instructor in decorative design at New
York's City College and who is the au-
thor of the only authoritative wori
on that subject which has ever beer
published in this country, has been es.
pecially prominent in the public eye
this last year. having been authorized
by the War Department as the officia
portrait painter OF the A. f. F. Ar.
irving in France while hostilities were
still in progress, and travelling
through all sectors of the American
front, before and after the armistice
he painted in three or four months
considerablyNover a hundred portraits
Of our Generals and representative
boiuAcIo TAU PEA TIC tfiC-i
extraordinary feats of heroism. Most
of these portraits were featured In the
last Liberty Loan drive, and they are
now on exhibition in Washington
where they will be held by the Gov
eminent as imperishable records Of
the American heroes of the war.
In harmony with the demand fol-
lace during the last summer. and with
the predictions of its increased pop
ularity during the winter of 1919-192O
the Bush Terminal Company will pre-
sent an exhibition of laces. past and
present, in the Bush Terminal Sales
building from October 20 to rs, inclu-
sive. Tho exhibition will be given In
the reception halls of the Interna-
donal Buyers Club OF the building.
The minds OF most persons who
think Of beautiful lace almost invari.
ably revert to old laces. Some very
exquisite work is. however, produced
at the present time, and there has
been infused into the old and excIu-
sive art OF lace making something OF
the imaginative originality of the
holder artists of our modern time
Several exquisite samples of lace by
Marian Powys depicting the varied
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