Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-15
THE WEEK BEAUTIFUL
Chestnut Street In the Hands Of the
Artists Of the city-Palntins and
Sculpture to Decorate Every
Window-Another Phiia.
delphla Fret ...
By GEORGE NOX MCCAIN

TUL1ET WHITE GROSS ia secretary Of
! u the Philadelphia Artists Association that
| Is going to mark Artists Week" with
white stone in, the contemporaneous history
Of this city.
| I acknowledge my indebtedness to this
| gifted artist for the condensation OF facts
herewith presented.
| Artists Week, which begins April 90 and
| unique. Every painter, sculptor. etcher and
| illustrator in the city IL interested in its
| success. directly or indirectly.
Every school OF art and design will, in
the end, be its debtor.
TN THE last year VIC have had all sorts
1 Of days and an indiscriminate ARA,
There have been mothers days. fathers
| days. children's days and donation days
without end. and tag rag and bobtail days
There have been Smile Week" "Cheer.
up Week" Cleanup Week" and Talk
Philadelphia Week "--and forget it next
Now Director Furbush has his press
agents at work advocating Get Ready
Week" for the Sesqui Centennial in 1925
or is it to be in 1927?
| Anyhow. the Director is years ahead Of
his time. He's rushing the mourners.
Rut Artists Week will be something new.
Not only new but beautiful. ..r.
juliet White Gross says So. Her fellow
artists. sculptors, etchers and illustrators
agree with her.
I'm a convert to their confident faith.
1AN you imagine Chestnut street in its
~ length from Nineteenth street to Fifth
street. and possibly farther, transformed
into an art gallery?
Two miles of Notwithstanding both
sides Of the thoroughfare.
a quarter of a million dollars worth
and the exhibits will be insured for more
than that--of paintings In oil and water,
landscapes. marines, still life, portraits!
Etchings. busts and pallid sculpture.
Gems that grew under the sculptor's chise
and mallet set forth with the added beauty
Of drapery by day and the uster of electric
lights by night.
Getting down to earth 1t is the recital
of n fact when l say that Philadelphia has
never seen anything like it.
The merchants of the, great business thor
oughfarc.. one of the worlds greatest, are
Of them belonged to the ancient and en-
nobling fraternity Of the brush, palette,
graver and chisel.
Art, for the time being. has taken them
to her bosom.
0F THESE beautiful objects there will
~ be number in each window on the
street-or most of them.
Half dozen firms. l am told. have agreed
to turn, each of them. one great show win
dow into an art gallery during the exhibition.
Window dressers--a unique profession that
has grown into life in the last quarter of
century and whose every member is an
artist at hcart--wll vie with each other in
the way of backgrounds, drapercs and
lights.
Artists from a distance. from other cities,
natives who have wandered afar and whose
names have added honor to the splendid
roster of the Philadelphia Academy Of the
Fine Arts, are sending some of their best
work here for Artists Week.
A ND what is it all about:
n To arouse in Philadelphia its innate
love OF art.
To encourage q love for the beautiful
To win recognition for the young mcn
and young women and the older men and
women. too. who are Of those gifted above
their fellows. who make life brighter and
better for the rest of us plodders and grub
bers.
MRS. GROSS tells me that the commit
AV4 tee. the Exhibition Committee, will also
bring the artistic and the business worlds
face to face.
1t will be unique feature of the occa-
sion.
At number of lunchcons and dinners
arranged for the week there will be ''chalk
talks" and quick sketches by artists and
illustrators.
What n delightful innovation.
Instead of a prosaic talk with slut.
tering or inaudble statisticians, hired ora
tors and alleged humoristS. the diners will
have an opportunity to witness real talent
unadOrned--
And that out of the ordinary and far
away from the commonplace.
ARTISTS WEEK is big civic PROPOSE.
n ton. It's u philadelphia First"
movement.
Its purpose is 10 bring to the front mu-
nicpal asset. Philadelphia art, which has
| never received the high consideration that is
! its due.
Here is an extract from a letter l received
| from distinguished painter on the subject
ARTISTS week will touch everybody
| somewhere. 1t is part Of the same impulse
| that causes man to choose certain necktie
| for Its color or its pattern. Why!
| because 1t pleases some instinct within
| him. 1t appeals to bis innate sense Of the
beautiful.
! II heard of a firm Of necktic manufac-
turers who went to the Metropolitan Mu-
| scum Of Art IN New York TO find new pat
terms, ideas and suggestions in color and
stuffs for their ties.
1T is the same impulse that carries
| through every municipal building in its
| architecture and adornment. Art is life"
The greatest exhibition of art that will be
| viewed by the greatest number of people.
| and without the charge Of q single penny for
| the privilege, will be held in Philadelphia
| on the street called Chestnut for an entire
week. beginning on April 90. which is
Saturday next.
Good people. take heed.
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