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4778301The Arts, Volume 1 — Issue 3 (February-March, 1921)Hamilton Easter Field

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The Arts

PUBLISHED MONTHLY DURING THE ART SEASON


FEBRUARY-MARCH, 1921

THIRTY CENTS A COPY
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR

Vol. I
No. 3


HAMILTON EASTER FIELD, Editor and Publisher

EAGLE BUILDING, 305 WASHINGTON ST., BROOKLYN—NEW YORK

Application made for Entry as Second-Class Matter at Brooklyn, New York

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Courtesy of Wildenstein & Co.

PORTRAIT OF MLLE. DUPLANT

Francois Andre Vincent
(French School 1746-1816)

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Courtesy of Wildenstein & Co.

PORTRAIT OF MARQUIS DE CHILLON

Joseph Sifrede Duplessis
(French School, 1725-1802)

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The Arts

A JOURNAL APPEARING EVERY MONTH DURING THE ART SEASON

Copyright, 1921, by Hamilton Easter Field.

Vol. I.
FEBRUARY-MARCH, 1921
No. 3


WITH this number of The Arts there are several radical changes. Our readers may notice that the issue is marked on the cover "February-March." News- dealers said that it was difficult to sell a magazine issued about the middle of February and called the February issue. Other magazines have followed the proverb, "The early bird catches the worm." Their June issues will be on the newsstands before winter overcoats have been packed away in camphor. Following their lead this, the February-March issue, appears March 1st, and the April number will be seen as March goes out like a lamb. Subscribers will receive seven copies a year.

In regard to the policy of the magazine, it is not planned, to use a homely expression, "to bite off more than we can chew." With this number The Arts becomes an eighty page art journal. Our first number had three full-page illustrations. In the January issue there were eight, and in this issue you will find twenty-four. Lest you receive therefrom the idea that we are venturing into too deep water let us assure you that the magazine is paying its way, and that we are "playing safe."

Last fall we were told so many times that many thousand dollars must be spent to start a successful art magazine that we began to believe it, and when the financial depression came it hardly seemed the moment to put forth such a venture. Now that success is assured we know that a time of depression is not a bad time to start a magazine. It forced us to put forth all our strength at the beginning. We knew that if we could weather the first months we could go through any storm.

A few weeks back Alan Burroughs, son of the distinguished painter and curator, Bryson Burroughs, became Assistant Editor of The Arts. As the Editor, the Musical Editor and the Assistant Editor are all Harvard men, no time is lost discussing the relative merits of the various universities. We have also added to the list of our regular contributors Forbes Watson, who has been doing such excellent work on Arts and Decoration. We are sure that Forbes Watson needs no introduction to our readers, and they will rejoice with us that he not only will continue to write upon art, but that he will contribute regularly to this journal.

All this has been made possible by the admirable support we have had from the more important art dealers, and also by the loyalty of those who are responsible for the publication of The Arts.

We wish to ask our readers to do what they can to build up the circulation of The Arts. We should have fifteen hundred new subscribers each month. Every new subscription helps to make The Arts a journal worthy of your support. Will you help us to add not less than fifteen hundred subscribers to our list before the next issue?

If it is a good thing to have a frontispiece it should be a better thing to have two frontispieces. For this issue we found two French portraits of the Revolutionary period. Our thanks are due to Wildenstein & Co. for the right to reproduce them.

Contents (not listed in original)

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