The New York herald., 1921-11-19
american Academy
Elects Three New
Men to Fill Quota
Henry Bacon, Charles Dana
Gibson and Joseph Pennell
Supply Vacancies.

American art prevailed over American
letters yesterday in the election of new
members to the American Academy Of
Arts and Letters, the result of which
was announced last night. Henry
Bacon. architect, and Charles Dana Glib
son, artist, of New York city, and Joseph
Pennell. etcher. of PHILADELPHIA were
chosen In a mail ballot in which every
one of the forty-seven members OF the
Academy participated. The membership
OF the Academy is now fifty, the maxi
mum number. The new members sue
ceed John Burroughs, who died March
%, 1927 Abbot II. Thayer. who died
May 90. 1921. and Barrett Wendell, VINO
died February s, 1921.
A leading event of the Acedemy's pro-
gramme yesterday was nationai tribute
10 John Burroughs Following the BUR-
roughs memorial there was house,
warming and informal reception at the
academy's present home 10 west
Eighty first street, which was attended
by more than 1000 persons, including
diplomatists, authors. artists and others
prominent in the social and political ne
of the world Prominent among the
diplomatists was Ambassador J. ). Jus
serand of France, who was accompanied
by Nine. Jusserand.
There was a distinctly Rooseveltian
flavor about the Burroughs memorial.
The paper of Prof Bliss Perry of Har-
ward read by Augustus Thomas in the
absence of Prof. Perry, who is i'll in
Cambridge. threw new light upon the re-
Iations between the great naturalist and
the former President. Hamlin Garland,
novelist and playwright. told of the in
timacy between Burroughs and Roose-
welt.
Previous to the Burroughs memorial
meeting the members of the Academy
were entertained at luncheon. Those
who attended were James Ford Rhodes.
Robert Underwood Johnson, William
Crary Brownell, Edwin Fl. Blashfield,
Thomas Hastings. Brander Mathews,
George Whitefield Chadwick. William
Rutherford Mead, Nicholas Murray But
Ter, Owen Wister Booth Harrington,
David Jayne HILL Childe Hassam, Au-
gustus Thomas. Carl Melchers. HaNllin
Garland, Maurice Francis Egan. Judge
Robert Grant, william Roscoe Thayer,
Cass Gilbert and Herbert Adams
A collection of Burroughs merora-
bilia was on exhibition yesterday at the
Academy as part of an elaborate
display of manuscripts and paintings ov
leading American authors and artists
living and dead Among those who con-
tribited to the exhibit wene Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt and Mrs. Douglas Roll
inSon.
The new members of the Academy will
engage in a programme of national SER
vice whose purpose Is to raise standards
in American art and letters. Henry
Bacon was born in Watseka. Ill. No
vember 2s. 1866 and was graduated
from the University of Illinois in 1888.
He has practised architecture in Bos-
ton and New York. He is the designer
of the Lincoln Memorial. costing ST.
1000, and is a member of the Ma
tonal Institute of Arts and Letters
and Of the National Academy of Design.
His home is at 344 West Seventy-sec-
ond street.
Many men and women prominent in
the social life of New York attended
the Academys functions yesterday. Re-
ceiving were: Mrs. Robert Underwood
Johnson, Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler,
Miss Sarah Schuyler Butler, the Misses
Garland, Mrs. Benson Sloan Miss Glory
Thomas, Miss Emily Gilbert, and Miss
Olivia Johnson. .eeaH