Show 1 ART I lAND AND MAMMON tty Uy Ella Wheeler Wilcox We Ye read road and nOlI h hear nr much of or th decadence ond nce and death of or art ort In this thi age Wo e read rend and hear much of ot tn to tite i financial emin vulgar commercial and I. I n cf of or this era em and then we realand rem real read and hear heU still more of ot the centuries departed when the who hole I civilized world worM seemed consecrated t P to art In Naples it was my m good fortun fortunto to m meet ct our most famous America landscape pJ artl artist t Harry HArr Ran Ranger hanger er wh whIs who Is as is brilliant and good as he Is la gifted Genius I is not always A associated wit will with brilliancy and worth It Is 15 sometimes sometime a fungus growth on a a. poisonous oa o of ofa or orn a n dond ll tree But Hut In the case of or Mr Ir 5 Ranger the tr tree o Is virile and It Its 6 branches are full of or health and coo cool green eon rest restfulness is found beneath their spreading arch arches sHAm s. s Harry HAm Ranger Is one of or a few tew painten paint en eat who arc aro absolutely above and beo be be- o Fond all Jealousy and prejudice P Per r- r haps of or all the arts painting Is la mos most torn n with those vices and antl It is 18 con con- gratifying to find a n. great grea and successful man so po o sweetly gener- gener ous and kind In his estimate of or otherL other L t L fellow ellow workers a ns as Harry Ranger andi and i so NO ready to give a n. helpful criticism 1 v. v or a word of or encouragement f But nut th that t Is ls what true greatness s means I I wild saki Id to Mr II Ranger Hanger that without critic I 1 believed bellev- bellev being a competent art ed cd real art RIt In ln painting and ami m sculpture f was wn very much alive e and at work to today today todo to- to do day and that It gratified mo me to findt find over sayer here In tin Europe such evidences o ol of t r great American genius i. i u In Paris the work of oC T T. Scott Debo DeboIs Debos s Is I. everywhere attracting attention In Rome Home such American sculptors as C. C M. M I. I and II H. C. C are arc t. t I 2 doing work of or tremendous po power w I and the color schemes of or Charles Walter I Stetson arc alC among amon- the notable things In the theart art world today toda J These ore are but a few ew of or the many man American names that might be bo cited In the rho Old World orld And then Mr 11 Ranger RanKer proceeded to tell ten me mc some ome In Interesting interesting In- In facts connected with art and anti commercialism rn Hero Here thc they are arc The great art all of or evel every epoch has tas always al- al al always ways was been hen associated with the great reat commercial prosperity of or a country Front From 1 1400 1100 OO to 1600 Italy was a u commercIal commercial com coin mercial center canter of Iho tho world It was during that period that the thc thet t art ait of or Italy budded blossomed blos and b Lore bore le Impel fruit fruit- uy The money mone power of oC Italy declined I i after the b beginning of or the seventeenth century coutur y and antI art aJl declined with wIlh It r Then Holland became a n famous mercantile fortress In Rotterdam Rembrandt rose to greatness when well fed men boasted In public of oC f their t J Immense wealth and material pros pros- perit rhe The whole de desire lre of or the thc day I a k seemed to be for Tor money monc and display at the time Velasquez q ez and awl did ld their Immortal work When hen France Spain England exported traded trad trad- i ed cd and gloried In commercial prosperity prosperity pros pros- their at artists tints mounted to prominence prom prom- and amI glory Nilson lIson Moreland Re Reynolds Turner Turn Turn- er wera all an a associated with eras of prosperity France was a n commercial power from 1830 1530 to 1880 and the tho Liar Har Harbison q bison school flourished In ht the same samey period tl i y iJ America rii IB la generally g l spoken ol or as a purely commercial nation devoid tlc orall ol or all other qualities Yet et in America toda today IB Is waking to lo life liCe the new great art school of or the world Already art buyers arc are coming lothe to lo the American shores from all quarters of tho the globe looking for Cor original painters painters pain pain- and sculptors already there Is an expectancy nc in III the attitude of ot the art connoisseur where once there was Irony Iron when American artists arc under under un un- der con consideration am and before another century pastes American art will astonish as the world Rome Home Porn Pompeii pell Venice Athens Athena Syracuse all nil were rich In material prosperity when their imperishable works of and art were produced Just wh why this Is If so can be bo easily under un un- der tood All success breeds success Achievement f stimulates action To see sec one ant produce result spurs on others to effort Nothing Is so 80 contagious as success Then when money mono has been accumulated its natural use is in beautifying the world the financier the tho trader and the merchant ant are proving their prowess prow prow- prow prow-I ess Os In the th world of o commerce the art- art Ut lit is 18 stirred to action and when he produces a work of ot beauty the thc 1 dor covets it it and amI then begins the birth of or a n new era cra of oC art such art Uart for tor There is no thing as arts art's sake alone Art must be associated asso asso- elated with Mammon to reach IL lit highest t level Ic America is great In Invention trade and antI commerce Immediately in their wake wale follows art art art-a a new art And It ft will prove an 10 art as virile as unusual as wonderful and as Immortal as the thc world has ever known s sAll All hall hail to American art In Rome Home during the reign of ot ont one emperor 4 OO beautiful fountains fountain were erected Hundreds of or them exist toda today a delight to the tho eye ce of oC every beholder The They gave employment to scores of or artists and artisans ans and they gave a n great greal Impetus to lo art arl Wo We 0 nee need such a public art ait spirit In America today Wo Vo need men and women of and culture who whort will rt III Imbue the public mind with a 0 desire de- de sire for national and civic art and amI who will lcJ regard rd our painters and sculptors is its great benefactors of or humanity to lo tobe be jc encouraged and aided and sustaIned sustaIn sustaIn- ed tl 1 b by appreciation and patronage Instead In Instead instead in- in stead of or as poor pOOl dreamers who live from rom hand to mouth anti and who belong to o the world of at Bohemia Of or all the purse proud conceited aristocracy of or old Greece Rome Home VonIce Von Von- Ice ce cc Athens nothing remains but the of or art artt The arIstocracy of or art arl done alone is enduring enduring Immortal The only glory which hangs about he the names of or a score of or old Grecian md Ind Roman Homan rulers Is 18 their thell patronage of f art ait Let Lei our financial rulers of America take seed heed and seize their one hanco chanco of or being remembered in centuries cen- cen urles to come b by associating them them- elves with n the great coming school oC if American art Instead of foraging among amon Old orld art stores for questionable nals of oC old masters let lel them turn lurn their heir eyes on the ai artists lists of or their own land and and help to lo give e American art arl ho tho Impulse e which it needs to rals raise c It to o Imperishable fame ame Vale Yale the tho old masters Hall hail to the now new masters t Jv |