An art week store window arranged aroundFrank B. A. Linton's 'Fool's Finesse'

An art week store window arranged around Frank B. A. Linton's Fool's Finesse
Identifier: internationalstu75newy (find matches)
Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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rt exhibitions to menand women of today, although to the Greeks andFlorentines their existence must have been asmatter-of-fact as contemporary life in any moderntown. The social history of almost any countrywould show great art fetes to which a single day permission to send civic representatives to studywas devoted, but these would be nations with an the working out of the plans for the Art Week,older record than ours and with an artistic tradi- To one man with the long-held idea that there tion deeply rooted in the lives of the people. But should be a more intimate relation between theit is doubtful if any land, in its most utilitarian artists and the people is the idea of Art Week due,phase of development (such as our country is and with the original help of twelve men andgoing through), can point to so unique an artistic, fourteen women it was accomplished. It is asocial, commercial and civic demonstration as matter of record that once a year, for the past three fijty-two 1922 jnAL
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three years, Richard T. an art week store window arranged art organjzatj(ms 0f Phihi- AROUND FRANK B. LINTON S FOOL S FINESSE . ° Dooner, of the Fellowship of delphia. Mr. Dooner soon the Pennsylvania Academy, has proposed to the found himself to be the fond parent of a child s.. members of that organization that they should lusty that it was difficult to manage, hold at homes in their studios on a specified The original group comprised Herbert Pul- day or a number of days to encourage this closer linger, Frank Reed Whiteside, Julius Block, relation of artists and people. It is also a matter Morns Molarsky, Nicola DAscenzo, H. Devitt of record that no action was ever taken on this Welsh, J. Frank Copeland, Richard Blossom motion, based on the desire to establish a more Farley, Frederick Nunn, Joseph Sacks, Yarnell intimate relation between the men and women Abbot, Howard Patterson, Mrs. Isabel Branson who create art and that public to whom art ismore or less mysterious and far remove