found. Undoubtedly, there is a very great artistic impulse in these annual showings of architecture.
It is unfortunate that there is not available in the largest city of the country a building adequate for exhibition purposes. We need an art center and there is no other civic need just now of greater importance. The Vanderbilt Galleries, where League exhibitions have been held for many years, have a certain atmosphere of aristocratic exclusiveness. They do not attract, and seem to forbid the presence of a large part of the city’s population that needs, and badly, to learn the lessons that these exhibitions teach.
The exhibition that was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art three years ago, when the Vanderbilt Galleries were destroyed by fire, attracted thousands that would never have gone over to the exclusive West side to view the same exhibition. The exhibition of municipal art, held during the recent “Silver Jubilee” of New York, was also thronged by people who had an opportunity to study, to the very best advantage, municipal architecture and the exhibits that showed the city’s growth and development. If we are to prove to the masses that art is not a hobby of the rich, but vitally a necessity of
MIRANDA AND CALIBAN
VASE FOR A GARDEN AT SYOSSET, L. I., N. Y. JOHN GREGORY, SCULPTOR
MICHAEL FRIEDSAM ART IN INDUSTRY MEDAL ROBERT AITKEN, N. A., SCULPTOR
AWARDED TO HENRI CREANCE
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