The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-20
WESTERN ARTISTS WORK
THE SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBIT OPEN
AT THE PROPYLAEUM.
First View for Members Last Night
Some of the Canvases from
Out of Town.

The first view of the second annual ex-
hibit of the Society of Western Artists was
given last night at the Propylaeum, the oc-
casion also being the fifteenth annual ex-
hibition of the Indianapolis Art Association.
Each member of the association was privil-
eyed to bring two guests. The exhibit will
be open TO the public to-day from ! to
o'clock in the afternoon, and the admission
will be 10 cents. During the week days the
public will be admitted between 10 O'Clock
in the morning and 10 in the evening.
The artists of Chicago, Cincinnati. Cleve-
land, Detroit St. Louis and indianapolis
have contributed to this exhibit. On enter
u large landscape by Mr.. Forsyth, glade
of old beech trees, with piled up masses OF
foliage, tossed one way by the wind. pic
ture expressive of natures orderly calm
and stiffness. The compoSure and grandeur
of the scene affects the mind deeply ana
the dusty road and footpath besides.in the
foreground, give a pleasant human. touch
turc.
A large painting, representing canal, a
pellucid sheet of water flowing toward a
hilly country, through banks of August
flowers, is the exquisite work which has
been bought of Mr. Steele, this year, by
the artists of Ohio for the Cincinnati Art
Museum: The charm of this picture lies IN
ita wonderful representation Of light and
heat in late summer. The air through which
the eye looks upon the distant wooded hills
Is SNlulHeFlnS WITH neat, Tie WdlSI, line a
glass, reflects the motioness atmosphere
there is a simplicity and naturalness Of ma
lures own creating in this delineation that
cheers the very heart; no froWsiness, no
confusion, nothing lacking can be found
the painting seems a piece of sheer perfec-
ton. and it has something OF the strange,
undescribed glamour of the landscapes OF
Tennessee and Georgia. Mr.. Steeles picture,
No 122, has still more of this hitherto un-
noticed charm of Southern landscapes. 1t
is in southern Indiana, but has the pinkish
miStineSS, the scenic, theatre, unheard-of
beauty of our middle Southern States Two
autumn exhibition were sent to New York.
where they attracted the commentator of
art critics.
Those who wish to see the far-famed Fire
island ightship. the beacon that greetS the
incoming ocean steamships OFF New York,
are given an opportunity of doing so by
Mr.. Sylvester of ST. Louis who has painted
this fine, brilliantly scarlet vessel IN the
midst of tugs, steamers and other craft IN
Vulnerable, with plenty of sea life about 1t.
Mr.. Syendsen, a Swede, OF Chicago, has
sent a snowy winter sunset with birches,
in which is seen the rosiest burning effu-
sion of light imaginable This picture lights
up its entire corner like a bonfire, and Is
feat in painting successfully performed.
Such floods of warm, rosy light pouring
over snow are not often seen.
Francis Brown, the editor of the Chicago
art magazine. called Pencil and Brush.
sends q northern Indiana landscape. No. IS.
cool and quiet in tone, very unlike the
warm Southern landscapes that we are ac-
customed to see by the Indianapolis school.
The exhibit has several fine marines, many
very interesting water colors, figures, por-
traits and few still lifes.