National Arts Foundation

National Arts Foundation

The National Arts Foundation, Incorporated., was a private American New York not-for-profit corporation devoted to promoting fine arts.[1] Robert Carleton Smith (1908–1984) founded the organization in 1947, served as its president and later as Chairman of its Advisory Committee.

People

  • Vaughan Williams – voted The National Arts Foundation of America's "outstanding musician of 1953"

References

  1. ^ Exchange of Art with Soviets Set; Carleton Smith Reports an Agreement In Principle on US-Russian Trade, The New York Times, October 4, 1955

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