El Palacio, Vol. 13 July 15, 1922 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from El Palacio, Vol. 13: July 15, 1922
Speaking on the subject of "The Art of the Earliest Americans," during the recent convention of the American Federation of Art in Washington, Dr. Edgar L. Hewett, Director of the School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and also of the Santa Fe and San Diego Art Museums, made the following interesting statement with regard to the survival of artistic instinct among the American Indians and a present-day movement in the Southwest to develop latent talent among these people. He said:
"We are now prepared to definitely extend the hope that the art of the earliest Americans is not simply a glory of past ages but a living asset of today. We have demonstrated in the Southwest that the esthetic spirit of the people lives and responds to friendly encouragement. In Pueblo villages about Santa Fe potters are rivaling, even excelling, the finest works of the ancients. If we give them only the same encouragement that we offer to art in general we see astonishing results. The paintings of our young Indian artists in water color are meeting with deserved approval. Their works are in demand for exhibition from San Diego to New York. Starting with a few individuals, we are now inviting simiiiar efforts all the way from New Mexico to Guatemala and the results leave upon our minds the decided impression that the destruction of original American culture, commenced four centuries ago, has not been as thorough as we supposed, that the soul of a great people had survived the shock of subjugation, and that with the enlightened encouragement of a people that is being in some degree emancipated from its own conceits the American Indian can come back." - New York Times.
Art and Archaeology.
At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of the Art and Archaeology Press, Edward Capps of Princeton, N. J., was elected a member of the Board, and Harvey M. Watts of Philadelphia, was added to the editorial staff of Art and Archaeology.
Archaeology and History
American School at Athens.
Announcement was made recently of the offer of his magnificent library to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens by His Excellency Dr. Joannes Gennadius. An essential condition of the gift was that a suitable building should be erected at Athens for the housing of the library. In his letter of acceptance, Mr. Justice William Caleb Loring, president of the School's Trustees, added the then necessary proviso that before taking title the management of the School must have time to ascertain whether the money could be found to enable the School to meet this condition; and Professor Capps, speaking for the School's Managing Committee, expressed the confident belief "that American philanthropy will promptly respond, in generous rivalry, to the challenge of Dr. Gennadius' benefaction." The fulfillment of this hope has come with amazing and gratifying celerity. We are able to announce that funds have been provided for the erection of a noble structure in Athens to house the priceless Gennadius collection, whose acquisition is thus assured to the American School. The Carnegie Corporation, of whose trustees Mr. Elihu Root is chairman and whose president is Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, has voted a generous appropriation to cover the cost of the building and the installation of the library.
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