The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-11
The Art Associations Annual
Display Will Open Tomor-
row Evening.
GREAT SUCCESS CERTAIN
LOCAL ART MOVEMENT HAS
ACHIEVED MUCH IN PAST AND
PRESENT EXHIBIT is UP TO
THE STANDARD.

The annual exhibit of paintings and
other art works given by the Rich
mond Art Association, will open to-
morrow evening in the Garfield school
building and will continue two weeks.
II perhaps would be untruthful to say
that this years exhibit will eclipse
that of last year or the year before,
for this achievement would seem al
most impossible after the remarkable
results attained during the past two
years, but the officers of the associa-
ton and those persons who have been
given the privilege of an advance
glimpse of the display have no hest
fancy in saying that the exhibit equals
in all respects it's most Auccessful
predecessors and this is saying a great
deal.
Achievements in Past.
What the local art movement has
done In half dozen years is pretty
generally known in the art centers
OF America for the story has been told
and retold in art publications, but
there is no better testimony to the
great work of the association than the
offerings of art works that this year
have come from some of the country's
best known painters.
1t has come to pass during the brief
period of the local associations exist
ence, that a true understanding of
the movements purpose has gone
broadcast. There is no selfish mo-
tive behind these annual exhibits.
There absolutely Is no compensation
for any of the hundred individuals
who give much of their time during
the course of year to the work and
the association itself derives no fl
nancial profit from annual exhibits.
The movement is s~,cational purely.
The Early Difficulties.
There were some who attempted to
discourage the leaders when the
project was first launched, taking the
view that 1t would be out of the ques-
ton for Richmond to secure the ex-
amples of the art work of famous
painters, and it was a difficult task
at the outset, but the enthusiasm of
the leaders was unbounded, and the
first work was to inaugurate cam
paign of education" among the art
SITS themselves Men and women
who had risen to fame through the
agency of their talents and who were
so absorbed in their work that they
perhaps had never heard of Rich
mond, were made to know something
of the art movement in the Hoosier
city. They were told that it was
one of the very few art exhibits that
was maintained by means of hundreds
of free will contributions and not by
the generosity of any one man or set
of men; that it was educational in its
scope and that it afforded thousands
of persons an opportunity of seeing
paintings and learning about them,
who otherwise would never be ena.
bled to do SO.
A Private View.
Tomorrow nights opening will be
for the members of the Art Associa.
ton only, and every person who has
purchased membership tickets is in
vited to attend. The announcement
of the winner of the Mary T. r. Foulke
prize of $50 for the best painting by
an Indiana artist, will be announced
tomorrow evening. The judges made
their markings Saturday. After to
morrow evening the exhibit will open
daily to the public without cost The
hours will be as follows: Daily from
$3.50 to 1880 a. m: 400 to 500 D.
m; 1880 to 1000 p. m. Sundays, from
300 to 200 D. m.