The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-18
Mrs. DassIer Here.

Mrs. c. W. F. Dassler. of Leaven-
worth, who is the director of the art
department of the Kansas exhibit at the
81 Louis exposition, is in town today
to confer with local artists and make
arrangements for the exhibition of some
OF their best work in the Kansas build
ing at the fair next year. Mrs. Dassler
has been prominently identified with art
interests in Leavenworth and in the
Kansas Social Science federation for
several years. She was last year presi-
dent and is still member of the board
OF directors of the Art League of Leav-
enworth, the only Incorporated club in
the state which supports one of the best
art schools in the west under the di-
rection of Mr.. w. Weber of Kansas
City Mrs. Dassler has been an earnest
student OF art for years and is account
ed one of the best critics in the state
Since early last spring when she was
appointed director of the Kansas art
exhibit for the St. Louis fair she has
been travelling over the state seeking
the best that has been done by Kansas
artists and her success she says has
exceeded her highest expectations.
I am sure the people of Kansas as
we'll as of the east will be astonfshed.p
Mrs. Dassler said this morning, Ito learn
how much really excellent work has
been done in the fine arts in this west
ern prairie country. You know the east
thinks we have no art whatever out
here and know the Kansas exhibit at
st. Louis will be a revelation to eastern
visitors. OF course this opportunity to
let the world see what we are capable
of in this way is of 1nestfmable value
to Kansas artists. So many of them are
struggling along alone and unaided who
may by this means find assistance and
encouragement and then the exhibit will
bring the Kansas artists together, make
their work known to one another and
tend to purify the art interests of the
state. l have myself, although I start
ed out hopefully. found artists of at
| tainment in Kansas of whose existence
l had been ignorant. Nowadays of
course we take the VIM Morris defini-
ton of art to include any handiwork
which shows beauty, truth, originality
and fine workmanship. In Wichita
| found Mrs. Taylor who does the genu-
| inc pillow lace work and l have the
promise of some exquisite pieces for ex-
| hibition. Perhaps you don't know that
a Kansas mans painting won a medal
| in the Paris salon of 1902. It is
| picture, Brutality. done by a Mr.. Pat
| rick of Marion. and will be shown in
/ the Kansas building next year. Thomas
, Cavney, the chalk talker. now in New
Y ork, is a Kansas man and some of his
canvases will be shown. Miss Cora
1 Gould, LeaVenworth girl, now q teach
er of art in YanktOn, South Dakota is
a graduate of both the Students League
and the Cooper Art Institute of New
York, and will exhibit. w. L. Grifiths,
| of the University of Kansas at Law
renee. and Mrs. Winnie Ream Hoxie, the
Kansas sculptress, now of Minneapolis,
Mimi, will show. John Noble, a Wich-
tia young man now studying in the
Quarter Latin in Paris. will send some
thing. He, by the way is the painter
whose picture Cleopatra in the Carey
hotel in Wichita was smashed by Car
RE Nation two years ago In native
Ceramic art Kansas is particularly rich.
| Your Topeka club has done some excel
lent work which will be shown. 1 also
hope to persuade your painter. Mr.. Geo.
Stone and your pen and ink artist, Mr.
Albert Reid to exhibit.
1.-THE Kansas building at the ST Louis
exposition Will have an art gallery 50
/ by 80 feet, whose wall space will be COW
cred by the best work of Kansas artists.
I want to say toe that the Kansas
building is going to furnish ideal head
quarters for Kansas visitors It will be
on the order of a large, modern con-
venient club house. beautiful and COM
Portable resting place for sight seers.
There will be day nursery under the
charge of a competent professional nurse
with a corps of assistants where the
Kansas babies will be taken care OF
while their mothers do the exposition !
know the Kansas building will please
the Kansas people and am certain that