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AS THEY WERE IN THE BEGINNING-FOURTEENTH-CENTURY TOMB FIGURE IN THE CLOISTERS MUSEUM

Courtesy oj the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gontempovavy TOMB FIGURES

/|s a people we are The mortuary sculpture now never realized and utilized
2^ not in the habit of [n our churches has been art and architecture as an
visiting our churches negtected both by Writers economic factor in the na-
to look at their art objects. / /»• tion s hie. 1 his general m-

It is not that American a pUDllC difference to these two arts

churches are barren of such FRrAl\f(BIS HAMILTON as financial assets of our
things. The fault lies in the cities is chiefly due to a lack

fact that we are not told they are to be seen. When of intelligent appreciation of the fact that "art
we go to Europe we think of at least half-a-dozen pays" and a consequent neglect by our press of its
churches and cathedrals we must see for the first opportunity and duty to spread this light in its
time: St. Paul's, Notre Dame, Cologne, Rheims, columns. Two signal instances of this may be
Chartres, St. Peter's, Milan. And most of us look noted in connection with the treatment of archi-
at and walk through countless others chiefly for tects and sculptors in this country. The last names
the reason that we have been told to do so in the thought of in connection with the completion of a
various kinds of books combining to present Euro- new public building or the unveiling of a new work
pean art propaganda. Except on the occasions of of sculpture are those of the architect or artist. So
our great international expositions, beginning with accustomed are men in these professions to this
the Centennial in 1876, the United States has neglect that when I made an inquiry of one of the

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