Evening star., 1924-05-11
ARTS CONVENTION
] OPENS WEDNESDAY
Federation With $50 Active Chap
4 ters Will Convene Here-Pro-
! gram to Close Friday.
LODGE BILL rs INDORSED
Prominent Authorities Will Speak
at Official Session.

The fifteenth annual convention of
the American Federation of Arts,
bringing to the National Capital
leaders in the world of art from all
parts Of the Union, Is to open its sea
sions in the New willard Hotel Wed
nesday morning. The convention will
close Friday, with the annual dinner
Of the federation at Rauscher's.
; The purpose of the American Fed
edge and appreciation of art in this
country so that finer standards of
citizenship and higher ideals of civ
Nization may be established in Amer
fca. The federation today has $40
chapters, located in almost every
state.
One subject to which the conven-
tion is expected to give particular
attention is the proposed erection in
Washington by the government of an
Gallery of Art, now housed in the
natural history building of the
Smithonian group. The federation
has taken leading part in the ma
of such building. 1t is now before
Congress in the shape of an amend
ment to the second deficiency ap-
preparation bill. introduced by Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts.
Opening Session Wednesday.
At the opening session of the con-
vention, set for $50 am. Wednes-
day, DR.. Charles n. Walcott, secre-
tary of the Smithsonian Institution
will deliver the address of welcome
The Smithsonian. by law, is the Gus
todtan of the National Gallery of
Art. Robert w. de Forest, president
of the federation, will follow DR.
session will include the reports of
Miss Leila Mechlin, secretary;
Federic A. Delane, treasurer; open
discussion of the problems of the
fedora tion. in which Cuthbert Lee
and Francis c. Jones, chairman of
the exhibition committee, will have
part.
At the afternoon session H. NJ
kurtzworth, director of the Kansas
City Art Institute, will discuss Our
EeTy, director of the Baltimore
Museum of Art, will talk on The
Usefulness of an Art Museum to the
Community; Anna Curtis Chandler
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
will discuss School Children and
the Art Museum" and Robert Under
wood Johnson, permanent secretary
of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, United States ambassador to
Italy during the Wilson administra-
tion and at one time associate editor
of the Century Magazine, will discuss
the academy's plan for the establish
rnent of art museum throughout the
country.
: Prominent Speakers Announced.
Among the speakers on the sue
ceeding days of the convention will
be Charles r. Richards, director of
the American Association of Mu-
seums, on Modern Tendencies in Eu-
ropean Industrial Art; Walter L;
Clark, president of the Painters and
Sculptors' Gallery Association, on
Marketing Art" through the artists
and laymen's plan now in operation
in the Association Galleries under the
roof of the Grand Central railroad
station in New York: Theodore Han
ford Pond, director of the Dayton Art
Museum. on THE Dayton Plan" for
q circulating library, in which pic
tures take the place of books; Mrs.
W. L. Lawton, chairman of the ma
tional committee for the restriction
of outdoor advertising, on abolish
ing Country Billboards"; George B.
Ford. president of the American City
ming; George William Bggers, direc-
tor, of the Denver Art Association, on
Art Getting Into Action; Mrs. j. C.
OSburn, chairman of the art commit
lee, we" IheAlCO FeOerdllOn OIL w OIL
ems Clubs, on How an Interest in
Art Is Being Developed in New Mex
ico," and Charles c. Curran, corre-
spending secretary of the National
academy of Design, on Technical Art
Training for University Students"
The delegates to the convention
will be received by Mrs. Coolidge at
the White House garden party Thurs
day afternoon. Receptions at the
homes of Mr.. and Mrs. Larz Ander-
son and of Mrs. Charles NJ. Fioulke
have been arranged for visitors, as
we'll as at the Phillips Memorial Gal
lery, 1900 21st street
AT the annual dinner Friday night
at RauScher'S, the delegates and
members will be addressed by dis
tinguished speakers
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