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ore the war 1t d.velopd dennit.ly las,

fore the war II developd definiteiy last
october when Alfred Cortot, represer. :
ing NJ. Laferre, the Minister of Public
INSTRUCTION. arrived In the United States
with the Paris Conservatory Orchestra
NJ. Cartot Is at present Secretary for
me Fine Arts In the French Ministry, a
place long held by NJ. Dalimier, whose
name Is familiar to all American art
lists who kept in touch with the French
ART world of recent years
Prior TO NJ CARROTS arrival CORE
spondence with the French authorities
rad been carried on by Ernest T. Ro-
sen an American painter who lived In
farls ,until two or three years ago when
ne established himself in New York. NJ.
Cortot after an interview in October in
Nited William A. Coffin OF New York to
form a committee for the exhibition, 81
which Mr.. Coffin was TO be president and
Mr. Rosen general secretary.
Members Of Committee.
The committee now organized is as
follows. the first six men constituting
the executive board: William A.
Coffin. president: Herbert Adams. vice.
president; Francis c. Jones. second vice.
president and treasurer; Ernest 7.
Rosen, general secretary: Chauncey r.
taries: George Bellows, Edwin II.
Blashfeld. Arthur Crisp. Daniel G..
French. Robert Henri, Max Weber, j.
Alden Weir, Irving r. Wiles an Mahonri
Young.
There are also to be number Of
honorary members not voting in the
selection of exhibitors. The list will be
headed by NJ Edouard de Billy, Deputy
High Commissioner OF France and head
OF the mission in the absence Of NJ.
Tardieu. and will include Henri Caro-
Delvaille, the French artist. residing IN
New York Ernest G,iy of the French
High Commission. Robert w. de Forest,
president of the Metropolitan Museum
OF Art; Theodore Hetzler. president OF
the Fifth Avenue Bank. who Is the
general treasurer OF the committee {:
penyS Amel. editor Of the Nep France ::
Henri Casadesus. president OF the
Societe des Instruments Anclens, and
two or three other men, among them
a. Augustus Healy, president OF the
Brooklyn Institute OF Arts and
Sciences. who have been invited but
whose replies have not yet been re-
ceived
1t was at first thought that the ex-
hioition would be held in some other
place in Paris than the Luxembourg,
Garden. or possibly the Petit Paiais,
but the Luxembourg was finally desig-
mated by the Government. thus bestowing
an honor on the United States that has
never been accorded to any other foreign
nation.
100 Paintings to Re shown,
The exhibition will include about one
hundred paintings and about twenty
fsurines. or small bronzes. busts. reliefs
and other pieces whether in bronze or in
marble. There will ne no large sculpture
works on account OF transportation ques-
tons and space for placing them. It is
probable that small number OF works
in black and white. such as drawings
etchings and Autographs. will be added
to the collection.
The committee will have three or four
corresponding members professional art
lists of high standing, in other cities. such
as Boston. Philadelphia and Chicago
and representation in the exhibition will
be solely by invitation. II is felt that
the committee Is broadly represent ative
OF all phases of present day art in the
United States
The collection will include works Of
living artists only. the committee having
so voted in accordance with the exigen-
cies of the situation and In harmony
with the plans Of the Paris authorities
for IL works of dead artists were con-
sidered It would requite about as much
space as Is accorded to the living artists,
and the purpose of the exhibition is TO
place before the European world OF art
and the people of France and other
countries a representative, carefully Sc
lected collection Of American art Of the
present day.
4 return exhibition OF French art for
next winter is contemplated. which will
be shown not only in New York. hut in
many OF the principal cities OF the
United States.