Art: Primitives

The Press had been fully instructed, but the general public had some difficulty in getting into New York's newest art rooms last week, the American Folk Art Gallery. The A. F. A. G.'s mission, say its promoters, is to exhibit and sell American Primitives. Connected with the enterprise as an adviser is little, round Holger Cahill, onetime press-agent and at present consultant for the Newark Museum of Art.

Ready to open in November is the Whitney Museum of American Art. Backed by Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt...

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