The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-16
SOME INDIANA PICTURES
LIBERAL CONTRIBUTIONS BY WE'LL
KNOWN HOOsIER ARTISTS.
A First View of the Work Enjoyed by
the Art ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Exhibit To-day.

Last night at the Propylaeum the first
view was had of the pictures contributed
by Indiana artists to the Art Association.
None but newspaper people and members
Of the association was admitted. This after
noon the exhibit will be open to the public
and the pictures may be seen without
charge.
The audience last night was not large, but
fully made up in appreciation what it
lacked in numbers The president Mrs.
May Wright Sewall graciously received the
visitors, and the artists present were ready
to give the names and localities of their
pictures in the absence of catalogues.
Among those present at the opening last
night were Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel E. Morss,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Eitel, Miss Julia
Sharpe, Miss n. Cropsey, Miss Margaret
Rudisill Miss Rudisill, Mr. Brazington,
Miss Kirin, Miss Selleck, Mr. and Mrs.
David Coffin, Miss Florence Haywood Mr..
and Mrs. George f. Adams, Mr.. I. c.
Steele, Capt. j. A. Lemcke and daughter,
Mrs. McOuat, Mr.. Rembrandt Steele, Mr.
and Mrs. Haldeman, Miss Margaret Hamil-
ton and Miss Corinne Robbins
The Propylaeum paintings are brilliant
scene this year, of very bright color, in the
main The pictures of Indiana artists
depict out-of-door sunshine and the crystal
clearness of last summers dry weather In
southern Indiana and Kentucky The bright
yellow stubbe of freshly reaped wheat
fields, with the marks of the harvest wag-
ons still fresh in them, land the rain-refresned
autumn of the same season, With lew
late-fall pictures, make up the main fea-
lures of the exhibit Nothing is more in
teresting than TO see the yearly improve,
Of he I'M
with their charming resemblance In sty!e,
and yet their distinction in treatment or the
same types of landscape on entering me
picture gallery the great collection OF Mr.
Forsyths work catches the eye; his strong,
vigorous handling rejoices the mind. His
oil paintings form rich organ-llke mar
mony of color, and run off into the more
aerial and delicate tones of his water col
ors; they form a solid phalanx OF an SORTS
of delineations, covering considerable wall
space. Side by side with MI Forsyth1
work hangs that of his comrade. Mr.. Steele
A certain refinement, a brilliant dellcacy
and in many of the paintings tranequlIiilty
and deep quiet characterize Mr.. Steele'S
summers labor. His works this year pos
sess the one quality-so attractive 10 9ll tne
world-of unity. Each picture has its point,
its one charm and not a single work al
fects the mind of the beholder as confused;
it is always picture or someetnlhg linp POI
tant not of a confusion of trihes, that TINS
painter gives. Mr.. Steeles works are all
hung together, and cover large space. Mr.
j. Otis Adams, of Muncie, occupies fair
share of the walls OF the Propylaeum. His
style bears a strong resemblance TO the
works of his fellows of the Indiana school:
Still there is trait of the poetic and the
truly pictorial that gives him DECIDED
quality of his own. There is picture that
| should like to have" is the general en-
comium on each of his works. Agreeable
pleasing picturesque scenes are in his llne
Mr. Gruelle's seacOaSt pictures take up
good deal of the space assigned TO him. lie
has this.ye Wrestled with the problem or
making rocks hard and STILL and water sort
and flowing, a problem that has fascinated
and absorbed many a man before him. Mr.
Stark shows a good array of his portraits
figures and landscapes, and Miss King ana
others not yet so well known as the found
ers of the Indiana school fill up the meas
IRE of the exhibit. On the whole, it seems
a strange and rather wonderful thing that
Indianapolis should be the one city of the
Union that can assemble gallery or en-
tirely original, characteristic and creditable
paintings of its own.
The Art Association has arranged to have
special pupils tickets distributed to the pu-
nils of all secondary schools and those of
the age of pupils of the seventh and eighth
grades in all the schools of the city, pubic
and private These tickets, with 10 cents
will admit to the exhibit at any time, but
Friday afternoon, Saturday morning and
Saturday afternoon are to be particularly
considered students days at the art exhibit
The superintendent of the city schools is
arranging to have the pupils attended by
their teachers, that the benefit derived may
be as great as possible.