The Washington times., 1921-05-08
ART EXPERTS
TO MEET HERE
Foremost Painters and Educa-
tors to Hold Convention at
corcoran' Gallery May H..
Do prizes stimulate art?

Do prizes stimulate art?
The American Federation Of Arts
wants to know. Members OF the fed
Grafton will discuss this question
along with a score of others at thstS'
twelfth annual convention. to open
at the Corcoran Art Gallery Tor
thrse-day session May IL.
INFLUENCE OF AIT.
The organization. consisting OF 26s
chapters In forty States. VIII con-
sider art as an active force In Ameri-
can progress. Special sessions VIII
be devoted to art and the peopte,
art education. art museums, profes.
sional art problems and the artists
point of view.
Under "Art and the People" sched-
uled for the opening session Ross
Crane, of the Better Homes Insti-
tute, operated by the Art Institute
Of Chicago, will give q special DEM
Included In the program are ad-
dresses on art In state Fairs" oy
l.. N. Churbuck. director OF the art
department. OF the Massachuset
state fair; "Art in the Public LII
brary," by Miss Mary Powell, Of the
art department OF the st. Louis pub
lie litrary; art in the Schools" BY
Allen Eaton, OF the Sage Foundation.
and "The Alliance Of the Arts" BY
John F. Braun. president Of the
Philadelphia Art Alliance.
AUrHORITIEs TO SPEAK.
Various speakers will discuss The
Artists Point Of View, among them.
Herbert Adams. sculptor and trustee
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art;
J. Monroe Hewlett, architect and
scenic artist, and president OF the
Architectural League Of New York;
George Harding. Illustrator and sRi-
cial war artist Of the United States
on the west trent in 1s1o; John Tay-
lor Arms, etcher. of New York city.
ana Albert Kelsey. Philsdslphis
architect.
At the Thursday afternoon session
Various matters of vital interest a.
professional difficulties will be dis
cpsssd. among them the copyright
law as related to art. art writing
In books and magssines. and promo
ton Of sales Of wU.ks by American
Al fists.
A special exhibition viii open
Thursday at the Corcoran Gallery,
&C Asisting Of examples OF British
craftsmanship of the present day. .
collection brought to America
through the efforts OF the Detroit
Society OF Arts and Crafts, and the
delegates will inspect the Whistler
Collection at the Library Of Con-
gI ess, assembled and presented to
the nation by Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Pennell, etchers and writer's on art
TO SEE MRS. HARDING.
Mrs. Harding will receive the del
egates at the White House on Thurs
day afternoon, and there will be other
receptions and garden parties at priv
ate residences. Mt. Vernon win be
visited Saturday.
The work of The American Fedora.
tion OF Arts includes hfty travelling
exhibitions covering paintings. prints
photographs, handicrafts. industrial
and commercial art. architectural and
civic art. and sculpture. each shown In
different city every month. and
circulating illustrated lectures. II
publishes The American Magazine oI
Art, The American Art Annual, the
standard American who's who oI
the art field, and American Art Sales
a current record of prices of paint
ings, prints and sculpture sold ut gal
leries in New York City, Philadelphia
and Chicago. The Federation hal
been influential in bringing abou
tariff-free admission of art into tn,
United States. and in the design o.
American coins now In use.- IL II
actively engaged in q country-wid'
campaign for war memorials worth,
of the cause that brought Americ,
into the war and the men that won 1t