Show AFTER QUACKS Botches in Paint and Marble AVill Be Tabooed CHICAGO Dec 11 August St Gau dens and other great American artists propose to have established a national commission of connoisseurs to see that quacks do not palm off botches of paint or marble in the name of art It is proposed that this commission shall have the functions and powers of a similar art jury which is thearbiter of things artistic in French public affairs The inspiration of the proposed commission com-mission has been the circumstance that the government is more than occasionally occasion-ally duped in the matter of architecture architec-ture for public buildings and in accepting accept-ing works of alleged art and culture A law will be asked of Congress making mak-ing it obligatory that all plans for public pub-lic buildings as well as all work of art be submitted to the commission before be-fore they are finally accepted by the government the commission to decide de-cide on the merits of the plans or to the work of art as the ease may be Circular letters are being sent out from Washington stating that the Public pub-lic league of the United States is being organized for the purpose of petitioning petition-ing Congress and otherwise influencing I the members of that body to create the I art commission John Maynard Harlan of this oily received one of the circular letters with the request that he secure the signatures sig-natures of several Chicago men interested inter-ested in promoting and preserving art These letters are being sent out to men all over the country The outcome of the creation of the commission is expected to be a vast improvement in American art lAt present there is no criterion by which the people are to be guided They want to know if a piece of WOrk is art or is something else |