Show J r E ENCOURAGING AMERICAN ART j 1 Former Senator W Yo A Clark of ot Mon Men Montana on 4 j taRa tana who has baJ been ben in Europe during a at 1 t portion of ot the Ule past winter and spring i I left Dover Doer for New York Sunday even evening evenIng s ing While White in London Senator tor Clark was Vas interviewed the project t for tor the encouragement of American art artand artI artand I and American artists It Is II generally i j known that Senator Clark is a collector of o rare pictures picture and an art comtois connoisseur t eur of ability That he is Ia engaged in f I home talent will be welcome 1 news all over oer the country count After Atter ex ox oxA expressing 1 i A 1 pressing himself as greatly over overT T i t the for American art Senator I Clark continued to enlarge upon the thet t f 1 subject near neer and dear to him bin hh bint t Art lovers oven both on Oft the continent and andin an 1 I in England tiM taM he ha have h e shown shon the thet I t most cordial renDal interest fn In it Influential InA l lJ 1 J leaders leeders in art an circles have premised all alt 4 their influence e In furtherance of the theA tit A j mover move wit nt which you know is fa fathered fathered a aI I by b the Society of American Art Collectors of oc which I am a member 4 I have hn been boon devoting my time to the I i II 1 matter metter during the four months month I have hae haen been n in Europe We expect after the thel l I early exhibition in An London to show the thep p i same pictures hi In i Paris in Ln the succeed succeeding i LI tug ing autumn Il Jab not no later then than Ci 1 j 11 1 4 i l 40 I September Every American artist j hether whether resident In his own country or abroad may ma be represented by two pic plc pictures pictures tures If Ii they are of ef sufficient merit and they the will be judged by ij a jury of Ameri Amen Americans Americans I cans I expect at the first fast exhibition to have at least toast 1000 pictures Our object Is hi to encourage American art and at atthe atthe atthe the same time to show Europeans what American artists can do I do not know whether we shall alse also have an exhibition exhibition tion lion In America but It is not at all im improbable Improbable Improbable probable The exhibition will probably open the eyes of the Londoners ant and Parisians to the fact that the United States has ar at artists tiit of merit and ami that their country countrymen countrymen men are proud prud pf them It will be a proud day for Senator Clark when he points point out the pictures s of this Ameri Amen American can ean or that American to art lovers loers of the old world |