Association For The Advancement Of Truth In Art

Clarence King the morning of the climb.

“ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TRUTH IN ART.
ON the evening of the twenty-
seventh of January, in the present year,
a number of persons met at 32 Waverly
Place, in the city of New York. Be-
lieving in the overwhelming power of
the Truth, especially in Art, they had
for some time seen the necessity of a
united effort to revive true Art in
America, and had assembled at this
time to take counsel together, and if
thought proper to organize an Associa-
tion for the better promotion of the
end just stated.”

This was written in ‘The New Path’ Vol. 1, No. 1 (May, 1863), pp. 11-12. The Founding Father of this association and the American Pre-Raphaelites, Clarence King, has led be up a long path to a mountain named after him. It looks like Lonely Mountain with Alpenglow that is…