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Show AN AMERICAN ART EXHIBIT. A Mov.m.nt Sat on Font br Klcliard Watson Wat-son Glider. New York. Jan. 27. Special to The Times. A number of gentleman known to be interested in art met here today at the Invitation of Richard Watson Wat-son Gilder to consider the advisability of holding a comprehensive exhibition of American art, both past and contemporaneous, con-temporaneous, in the Madison Square Garden building in the spring of 1891?. The meeting was not large, as a number num-ber of those invited couceived tne idea that the movement was in some way intended to detract from the interest of the World's Columbian exposition ex-position at Chicago. The project of a single exhibition in the Madison Square Garden was well reviewed by those present. It was thought that it would lake about a year to get up a satisfactory satisfac-tory collection. Mr. Gilder, tho originator origi-nator of the movement, warmly protested pro-tested that the exhibition was not intended in-tended in any way to rival the Chicago exposition. Another meeting will be held lo give the subject further consideration consid-eration before definite action is taken. |