[**Total] 28
Grand prizes…………….. 29
Gold medals……………… 139
Silver medals…………….. 28
Bronze medals……………. 15
Grand total……………. 211
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CHAPTER X
Fine Arts Exhibit and Schedule of Awards
THE FINE ARTS EXHIBIT
By CHARLES M. KURTZ
Acting Secretary of the Executive Committee on Art
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Up to the time of the organization of the Committee on Art for the State of New York, appointed by the New York State Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission, very little had been accomplished in the direction of securing a collection of representative works by the artists of New York for exhibition at the World's Fair at St. Louis. Professor Ives, Chief of the Department of Art of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and Assistant Chief Kurtz had visited New York at frequent intervals (the first time in January, 1902), had aroused considerable interest in the Exposition among the artists, and had secured the appointment of Advisory Committees of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Mural Painters, Miniature Painters, Engravers, Wood Engravers, Illustrators and Workers in the Applied Arts to look after the organization of exhibits in their respective fields of expression and the interests of the Department of Art of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in connection therewith.