Last week Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens, director of Fine Arts for Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute, returned to Manhattan from a four-month art-storming tour of Europe with 250 canvases for the Institute's 32nd International Show (Oct. 18). Not only had the 53-year-old son of the late great sculptor been garnering pictures but he had also taken an authoritative, front-line look at the current condition of world art. Director Saint-Gaudens briefly summarized what he had seen:
"Italy is the most promising art centre in Europe. ... I have never seen a land in which the government...
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