The Prospects of Art in the United States: An Address Before the Artists Fund Society of Philadelphia, at the Opening of Their Exhibition, May, 1840

Excerpt from The Prospects of Art in the United States: An Address Before the Artists Fund Society of Philadelphia, at the Opening of Their Exhibition, May, 1840

I know that I express the feelings of many others, in congratulating you warmly on the prosperity of your Association. The opening of your new and commodious Hall of Exhibition, on a site very generously secured to you by the Academy of Fine Arts, with the rich collection of your own more recent and beautiful works now arranged within it, gives assurance of your successful zeal in the past, and war rants the best hopes for the future. You need no longer complain that you are without a resting place and home, and the scandal of seeming alienation between a Society of Artists and a Society of the friends of Art, has ceased. We now see that, though there may be different views of policy, a sincere desire to promote the healthful growth of Art, binds you together in a union, perhaps the stronger, because without a literal covenant. Kind ness has been proffered, and kindness has been accepted.

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