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Show Wanted: "Secretary of the Fine Arts" xcabinet !L f ( .A SECRETARY OP THE FINE ARTS is tlie latest proposed addition to the cabinet. What's more the League of Artists has been formed to urge the proposition. It is stated that J. Mas-sey Mas-sey Rhino, the New York sculptor, made the proposal to President Harding Hard-ing and that the President asked that "the artists of the country who favor the idea get their arguments in tangible tangi-ble form and submit them to him." The purposes of the movement include the following : To further contemporary American art and its relation to national life. To seek to have embodied in the Constitution of the United States the words "fine arts," as well as "scientific and useful arts." To arouse our national government to a realization and need of a minister Of art with portfolio, and to give definite defi-nite and concrete support to the artist. To establish better conditions for the development of American art. . To foster the unknown artist by giving giv-ing him an equal opportunity. To maintain an advisory school committee to work for the betterment of art Instruction and art education throughout tlie United States, and more especially in the city of New York. To establish an interchange of city exhibitions. To promote general and active Interest Inter-est in the creation of a large public exhibition building in the city of New York. To seek the co-oporations of the art museums, patrons, art lovers, art dealers, deal-ers, architects, interior decorators and artists. To act for the improvement of the materials of the artists' craft and to establish a closer co-operation between be-tween the producer of same and the artist. To Improve exhibition conditions and encourage sales. |