The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29
ART EXHIBITION
OF STATE OPENS
MINNESOTA soCIETY'S ST. CLOUD
EXHIBIT is SHOWN HERE.
Private View to Members of Mime
apolis Society OF Fine Arts, Under
Whose Auspices Present Exhibition
Is Given, Will Be Held This Even
ing.

Thru the efforts Of the Minneapolis
Society of Fine Arts the first annual
exhibition of the Minnesota society
first shown in st. Cloud has been
brought to Minneapolis for two weeks
1t will be opened tonight at the pup
lie library gallery with private view
for the members Of the society ana
tomorrow for the public. The ex-
hibition will be open morning ana
afternoon on week days and sunday
afternoons to May 8.
* Of special interest is the group or
art works by Minnesota artists, Wnlch
won the long list Of prizes offered by
the society. The principal prize, $3oo'
was won by the sculptor, Knut Aker-
berg; the other prize winners are Mrs.
Gertrude Barnes, Gustav Goetsch,
William Charming Whitney, TnomaS
Allen Cresswell, Hugo Arnold, MRS.
Ambrose e. Helmick, Mrs. Selma r..
jaeger, Mary E. Simpson and Edlth
Griffith. The student prizes were won
by Clarence Cristadora, tlorence n.
snook, Royal Rheen and Marie Louise
Sphinx. ,.,.........-.. ...
This Ia the first time that Mime
apolis has had an important exhibition
showing side by side painting, sculpt-
ure and art crafts. The result is very
pleasing and will encourage more va
ried exhibitions in the future.
Probably few would hesitate to pro-
nounce, J. Alden Weir's 'Ploughing for
Buckwheat In New England" the most
important painting shown. The COM
position Is interesting and admirable
but it Is as color harmony that 1T ex-
cells chiefly. It Is symphony of fresh
springlike green's and soft blues me
light is softly diffused in delicate
haze, like the bloom on a blue plum.
and the deeper blue Of the sky and
the shadows blend exquisitely with the
hazy veil. The blowing Is being done
by pair of patient, slow, dun-colored
oxen, which, with the driver and a
child. make slillful1y arranged
group.
Fl. Bolton Jones is represented in a
Minnesota exhibit for the first time by
two colorful interpretations or qule1
and charming moods of nature, one 9
broad sweep of meadow and brook
seen in the luxuriance Of summer To-
liage and the other an old road among
trees showing autumn coloring, witt
glimpses of blue sky between the net
work of branches. Both breathe al
outdoor atmosphere. A group o,
studies of Michigan orchards framed
together as panels shows keen obser
walton and a fresh, delightful coloring
All show fruit trees in blossom AM
one has q distant vista very cleverl.
treated. This is by Mrs. J. G. Stohr Q
st. Paul. who also has another land
Hope" First Leaves by w. J. Con
way Of st. Paul is an impressionisti
landscape in which the poetic qualit,
of spring is well expressed in the char
acteristic coloring and by slender sap
Sings with their fringe of unfolding
leaves that suggest youth. &"'3
Peaceful Night. by Alexis Fournie
Is an unfamiliar canvas showing on
of his favorite motives, a rustic seen
at the edge of village seen dimly b
the yelled light of the moon which
struggling to break thru mass c
clouds. The cloud effects, trees an
cattle are mirrored family in a pool {
water. peace and Plenty" is one {
the best of the same artists sunshin
landscapes showing a great sweep {
beautiful French landscape tenante
only by a flock of browsing shee1
"Twilight" by Cullen Yates Is a restf1
green landscape, touched here an
there with the autumn coloring of tt
sparse foliage that remains on tt