National Parks
Conference
Held at the National Museum, January 2-6, 1917.
Copies obtained from the Forestry Library,
Colorado
A. & M. College, Fort Collins, Colorado. (Now Colorado State
University).
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Four of Dean Babcock's paintings were exhibited: "The Twin Sisters", "A
Glimpse
of the Range", "The Explorers", and "The Crags".
The text reads: "Catalog of a Loan Collection of 45 Paintings
Illustrating
Scenes Mainly in the National Parks and Monuments of the United States,
Assembled
by the Department of the Interior in the National Gallery of Art in
Connection
with the Meeting of the National Gallery of Art in Connection with the
Meeting
of the National Parks Conference held in the National Museum, January
2-6,
1917.
"This exhibition was opened wth a special view on
the
evening of January 2. On January 16 one painting was withdrawn,
and
on January 30 fourteen paintings were returned to the owners. The
remaining
thirty will continue on exhibition in the main room of the gallery, new
building
of the National Museum, until after March 4. Those withdrawn are
indicated
by an asterisk."
Artists who loaned paintings during this conference included Albert
Bierstadt,
Howard RusselButler, Elliott Daingerfield, W. Herbert Dunton, J. R.
Fountain,
and others.
A number of people of historical note attended this conference,
including
Enos A. Mills, a friend of Dean's. He gave an evening of bear
stories,
for which he had gained popularity over many years of lecturing, and
presided
over the Morning Session of January 4.
William A. Welch, of the Pallisades Inter-state Park, Stephen T.
Mather,
Asst. to the Secretary of the Interior, Dr. George Otis Smith, Director
of
the U.S. Geological Survey, J. Horace McFarland, president of the
American
Civic Association, also spoke at this conference.
Copyright 2003 by Enos Mills Cabin
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