ABSTRACT
The artist, qua artist, is an individualist, and the quality of his art lies in its individuality. A work of art is the concrete record of an artist's discovery of himself, first to himself, then at a second remove to the world around him. The true artist does not feel the need to address a mass meeting to have the sense of conversing with his fellow man. Museums, as looked upon by certain museum trustees, are primarily intended as instruments of popular education along mass media lines. The interest of museum trustees in popular attendance would point this way. Attendance statistics would readily show them that an exhibition of painting or sculpture in an idiom familiar to the public and by an artist or artists whose name it knows will draw crowds. The function of a museum is the encouragement of the enjoyment of art and through this the indirect encouragement of the creative artist.
