The Arts
DECEMBER 4, 1920
PRICE 25 CENTS
HAMILTON EASTER FIELD, Editor and Publisher
EAGLE BUILDING, 305 WASHINGTON ST., BROOKLYN—NEW YORK
EL GRECO
SAN ILDEFONSO OF TOLEDO
Courtesy of Knoedler & Co.
The Arts
A JOURNAL APPEARING EVERY THREE WEEKS DURING THE ART SEASON
Application Made for Entrance as Second Class Matter at Brooklyn, N. Y.
Copyright, 1920, by Hamilton Easter Field.
THE ARTS proposes to be an art magazine and a trade paper. There is room for another art magazine in America, one which will properly feature painting and sculpture, one which will give the news of the art world, what the artists are doing, what the art-patrons and museums are buying, what is going on in the trade. No other trades are of such general interest as those connected with the arts. We read of plays and players, of opera and opera stars, of painters and sculptors, with more interest than we do of the buyers and sellers of dry goods. In former days and in other lands there was still greater interest in the arts. When Rodin visited London his admirers unhitched the horses and drew him in triumph through the streets. We need such enthusiasm in America.
It will be the purpose of this journal to foster an interest in art, for there is no interest which so enriches a people. It brings into the lives of men happiness, peace, sanity. An interest in art running through all ranks of life and all nations would be more efficacious in preventing war than the pledges of a thousand diplomats.
In this first copy of The Arts much had to be set aside in order that standards should be established; the form of the page, the type, the arrangement of text and illustrations on the page, the placing of the advertisements, the size and quality of the reproductions; all these took an amazing amount of time. This is why the magazine has not yet been able to create the various departments which had been planned.
It will be arranged to have correspondents in the various art centers of the world. In Paris last summer we secured the services of Guillaume Janneau who will write regularly of French art. In London we were equally successful. There will also be occasional letters from Munich. We also have correspondents in Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, and it will not be long before we shall have an admirable editorial staff. Arthur Pollock will write of the drama; Daniel Gregory Mason, of music. The art trade has come to our support most generously, and we hope that every reader who sympathizes with the objects of our magazine will be a subscriber.
The magazine will appear only during the art season; every three weeks from the beginning of December to the end of April (eight numbers). The subscription price is two dollars a year.
We are indebted to Knoedler & Co. for our frontispiece "San Ildefonso of Toledo," a study by El Greco. The canvas was formerly owned by Millet, from whose collection it passed into that of Degas. Knoedler & Co. purchased it at the auction sale held after the death of Degas.
Contents (not listed in original)
- Edgar Degas, Painter-Graver by The Editor
- Beethoven, 1770-1920 by Daniel Gregory Mason
- Two Japanese Prints, An Artistic Curiosity
- Glackens' Walter Hampden, by Mary Fanton Roberts
- The False "Renoirs" by The Editor
- Current Art Exhibitions by The Editor
- The issue also includes several pages of Advertisements