Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-04-20 | Page 23 | House on Hudson Culture Center

r I House ouse on Hudson Culture Center I N YORK TORE AP AP up on cn a ahill ahill hill hili overlooking the on river and the rocky Palisades of or the Jer- Jer lIe shore stands a historic old building devoted ote 1 to the culture cf ct time the United States Statta Tills This old lId building houses the Am American Academy of or Arts and Letters the new world equivalent of or the fren French academy Spring artistic artistic ar ar- activities haVe havo found foune th then them wa way to it end and a a. I exhibition of the works of or 1 lliam Merrit I Chase ChaRe will o open eh at td academy on April 26 6 Preceding the formal o opening i will willbe b be the semiannual meeting of ot members mem faem- here belts of the academy at which the annual award of oC the medal for Ol- Ol Olo good o d diction on the stage will be made Fifty m members mbel's fr front Irom the time HeMs fields or Of literature painting architecture sculpture and music mike make up the roster of the academy which L beasts asta names flames that have ha made the history of this country Julia Tulia Vard Ward Howe is the only woman woman woman wo wo- man ever er to have been elected to academy membership thought though on lIev several ral occasions women have been given the two outstanding outstanding- awards of oC the academy th the Ho Howells wells medal for distinguished work in American fiction niH and the academy gold medal for Cor the best hest work in lIt literature art artOr artor artor or mU music l t a. D allX x painter paint paint- er is thO present holder of the lh former former for for- mer vt while Mrs Mary 1 K H. Wilkins Freeman Froeman now has the medal medal medal med med- al awarded every cry cv c ry fifth firth year v ar On the list of or rians Ian hn have b been n William D Doan I. 1 llo eI ells eli t His liS Saint ld Edward wa Id McDowell Mc lc I Dowell John Un Hay Henry James Jo Joseph eph Jefferson Theodore Il neo Roose oSe ev e- e v velt lt Horace Howard t I 1 Homer Joel Chandler Chandle r Harris Han John Burroughs Ed Edward var d rd Everett F. Hale John Muir Woodrow Wilson William Va Vaughn tood J Moody 1 James Tam Riley and JosephP Joseph P Pennell One of th the e main t functions of th c academy in promoting American an nr anis t ct is li the time maintenance of an advisor or staff of or experts for fol use b by br art arf nr museums museums mu- mu galleries s and lI libraries s throughout th the c country