The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-12
EXHIBIT OF INDIANA ART
1T WILL BE HELD IN TOMLINSON
HALL APRIL 27 TO MAY o.
Occasion VIII BE of Unusual sfgnif-
cance-PrOceeds for Benefit of
the Flower Mission.

Preparations are being completed for an
exhibit of Indiana art, contemporary and
retrospective, to be held in Tomlinson Hall,
April q to May 9. The exhibit will be held
under the patronage and for the benefit of
the Flower Mission and one of the pur-
poses is to raise money for the care of the
sick poor, as well as funds for other de-
partments of Flower Mission work. In the
exhibit will be characteristic pictures by
famous Indiana artists of the past and
present, and the oils and water colors will
be numerous and of the best quality.
The Flower Mission committee which,
with the artsist committee, is in charge of
the details of the exhibit, is made up of
Mrs. Henry Kahn, Mrs. John Lewis Grit
fifth, Mrs. Joseph K. Sharpe. jr., Miss Julia
G. Sharpe and Mrs. Victor X. Hendricks
The artists committee is composed of t. c.
Steele, William Forsyth, r. B. Gruelle, ].
Otis Adams. Otto Stark, Miss Wilhelmina
Seegmiller and Miss Rhoda Seleck Among
those who will assist the local committees
are Miss Evaleen Stein, of Lafayette;
Judge d. P. Baldwin, of Logansport: Hor-
ace p. Owen. of New Harmony; Mrs. Cor
don Bell and others whose names will be
announced later.
Widespread interest has already been
taken In the forthcoming exhibition and
the members of the Indianapolis commit
tees have received many inquiries concern
ing the exhibitors and others details. 1t is
announced that season tickets will be sold,
so that those who may wish to attend day
after day may have the benefit of special
rate.
UNUSUAL SIGNIFICANCE.
Speaking of the Importance of the exhibit.
member of the artists committee said
yesterday: 1.-The exhibit will be of unusual
significance. 1t is attracting attention not
only locally. but throughout the State. 1t
will include the best works of the best
painters that have been identified with In
diana art in the past and in the present.
When these pictures have been brought to-
gether in one place the first opportunity
will be given of studying the development
of art in the State. Students will have the
additional advantage of scrutinizing the
technique of all the painters.
mot every one knows that the love of art
found expression while Indiana was yet a
Territory. That there have always been
men and women to keep alive the divine
spark through pioneer days, in the vicissi-
tudes of the civil war, in the struggle for
commercial prestige up to the present time
is pleasant fact to recall
1T is too early to give list Of the old
paintings that will be exhibited, but among
the valuable historic works will be a num-
Der in both oil and water colors from the
brush of George Winter. who was famous
for his Indian pictures. A portfolio collec-
ton of Indiana studies taken from early
Indiana scenes will be of great interest.
These will be added to the exhibit by Mrs.
George Bell, of Lafayette. granddaughter
of the celebrated artist.
MODERN ARTISTS.
Our modern artists will be seen at a.
greater advantage than ever before. The
exhibition will be given in Tomlinson Hall
where there is ample room for each picture
to be well placed, and the opportunity for
not Only seeing, but studying the collec-
ton, as they will be exhibited for a period
of two weeks. There will be an exhibition
of arts and crafts that will be very inter-
esting to students of Industrial art. The
educators of the State are cooperating
with the artists and the Flower Mission
committee is working to make the exhibit
ton a success, recognizing as they do its
important bearing upon pubic instruction.
The artists of the State are giving freely
Of their time, not only to the artistic per-
lection of the exhibit. bus to the practical
details of the work. Indeed they have
laid everything else aside for the few
weeks preceding the entertainment.
las has been said, the exhibition will be
given under the patronage of the Flower
Mission for the sick poor. The entire pro-
ceeds will go to this society," which is forth
flying itself for the many demands that
will be made upon it's treasury during the
hot summer months, following upon a
winter Of an unusual amount of sickness.
While the society must make continuous
effort to secure funds for the city's sick
poor. it presents this exhibit of Indiana art
purely upon its merits, and feels that in
making it an artistic success it will not
only have contributed much to the educa-
tional development of our people and that
the financial success must necessarily fol-
low from the large number of people who
Will attend. not only from the city, but
from other parts of the State