Show aitt ai tt our art students benefited by foreign study it Is a very serious question whether our art lias has been greatly benefited by the sending abroad 0 of so many students to lo be under foreign influences it would have been well for us I 1 believe it if we had bad imported draw in ins masters and men who could have taught us the dexterous manipulation of clay and ourselves in our own country developing an art which la is on an initial Inte gial part of the life of it the people I 1 realize that la in saying this I 1 am making ft a bold statement yet I 1 be alave ilave it to be true many critics say that hail ad we wilted waited to tor alt ait to come to us 1119 we should hale haie been a century behind our present status but philosophy Y and history do 10 not justify such a theory when a nation rises to a point po irit w where her 0 it h ht a serious life and sufficient patriotism to find enduring g ex mon in form sculptors have inva r a IV arisen to carve its ideals ideala in marlie marble ond and to east them in enduring bronco chiw did we ile produce in this country nich buch men inon a as emerson Eme raon iian blaw thorne and whittier to zay say nothing of men liko ilk lir coln grant and certainly not by an order of foreign study or by subjecting these men when young to the influence of 0 foreign nations what Is true of 0 literature aud and state must bo be true of art sicre th cro Is in our people a certain simplicity 0 of pul pui pose honesty of endeavor a and id nobility which would have found espre expression in sculpture had europe sunk stink beneath the seas mr william Willi arn ordway partridge in the january forum |