New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-30
New Home of Art
Center Will Open
Here Tomorrow
Inaugural Exhibition Will
Continue Through Month;
Will Show Illustrations of
Progress in Practical Work

The new building Of the Art Center,
Inc, at IS East Fifty-sixth Street, for
mally will be opened tomorrow as the
headquarters of the industrial arts Of
the United States. The event will be
marked by a reception and exhibition
given under the patronage of hun
DIRE leading artists and art patrons, as
we'll as the officers and members of
the seven societies operating in con-
junction with the Art Center. The
speakers for the occasion will be Mrs.
Ripley Hitchcock, president of the Art
Center; Charles Dana Gibson. vice
president; William Laurel Harris, man
aging director; DR.. John H. Finley and
Frank Purdy, of the board of directors,
and Ernest Elmo Calkins.
The inaugural exhibition will con-
tinue until the close of November. 1t
will consist of works illustrating Amer
ica's progress in the practical arts
drawings, models and sketches of pro-
posed or executed work in textile de-
sign, advertising. illustration, decora-
tive painting, handicraft, home furnish
ing, personal adornment and pictorial
photography Several hundred indi-
vidual exhibits, representing the work
of the seven constituent organizations,
will be displayed throughout the new
galleries.
A series of interesting events will
take place during the ten days follow
ing the opening tomorrow. A day has
been assigned to each of the constitu-
emit groups and others associated for its
ON oio1 okeo, g.
and lectures, taking place between the
hours of 8 and and 8 and 10 o'clock.
November | to 10, inclusive, will be
devoted consecutively to the following:
The Art Alliance of America the Amer
lean Institute of Graphic Arts, the New
York Society of Craftsmen and the In
ter-Arts of the Theater, the Pictorial
Photographers of America, the Society
of Illustrators, the Students Day, the
Stowaways' Day, the ex-Service Mems
Day, the Art Directors Club and the
Tiffany Foundation.
The Art Center has been created to
meet modern requirements of the arts
closely associated with the everyday de-
mands of the people. Each of the af-
fliated groups is devoted to special
forms of the applied handicrafts and
trades useful in home furnishing and
tHe expression OF ornamental design.
The committee in charge of the inaug-
ural reception is headed by Mrs. John
Henry Hammond and includes Mrs.
Ripley Hitchcock, Charles Dana Gibson,
Heyworth Campbell, secretary of the
Art Center, and Colonel Wade H. Hayes,
treasurer Honorary reception commit
tee-Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dean Adams,
Mrs. John w. Alexander, George Gordon
Battle, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Montgomery
Flagg, Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel c.. French,
MI: and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, Mr..
and Mrs. John Henry Hammond, Mr..
and Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Mrs. Walter G.
Ladd, Mrs. Lewis Henry Lapham, Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick S. Lee, Adolph
Lewisohn, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mans
field, Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan, Mr..
and Mrs. Laurent Oppenheim, Mrs.
Henry Phipps, Mrs. Clifford Pinchot Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Potter, Mrs. Douglas
Robinson, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert L. Sat
terlee, Mrs. William J. Schieffelin, James
Speyer, Mrs. Willard Straight, Mrs.
Gustav Stromberg, Louis C. Tiffany, Mr..
and Mrs. Felix M. Warburg and the
Honorable and Mrs. Henry White.