The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-03
Art Aids for
Busy People
By MARTHA q. WELLS,
Chairman Of the Art Committee Of
the State Federation.
Fine Arts at the Biennial Of the Gen
eral Federation Seven Different De-
partmentS.

Inc Well-alIanReQ pictures Hdsos a i11A !
monious setting on the soft green color
of the freshly-tinted walls, the rich
tints Of rare rugs, vases Of flowers and
the beautiful contents of four large
glass cases Of art handicraft make 1t
q delightful place to inger, and give
hint of the amount OF work when
accomplished such excellent results.
Between the morning and evening. SEES
art committee assist Mrs. John B.
Sherwood of Chicago, chairman OF the
national art committee, in explanations
Of the exhibit. Monday evening, June
4, the session is entirely devoted to
art, when the enthusiastic chairman,
who has devoted years of study and
on the "Gospel of Art'; the address
following, by Mrs. Bertha K. Baher,
is, cart as Social Dynamic. -
A little book on art study IS for free
distribution in the senate room.
The art exhibits which occupy the
wall space of the large chamber and
several adjacent ones, are extremely
interesting in their merit, purpose and
history and cover seven distinct
phases.
First-The Travelling Art Gallery;
a This waT Sasd tso etRehnae It
started in January, 1905, for the pur-
pose Of bringing exhibits Of good pic
lures to smaller towns, and thus do
ing for art what the travelling libraries
do for those communities who are re-
moved from large libraries.
How great it's success has been Is
told by Mrs. Sherwood's record: 1t
eight different towns, in an east and
west territory extending from New
York to Denver, and north and south
from Texas to Minnesota. Of the four
Minnesota towns, it came to St. Paul
from Fergus Falls, the last. point
visited. So great has been the interest
that $50 applications for 1t have been
declined for lack Of time: All ex-
press their appreciation and It is do
inc for the states what the Minnesota
state art commission has begun here.
Next year it is planned to have two
such travelling galleries The only ,ex
pense being the transportation and
local, the opportunity and educational
value to smaller places can hardly be
overestimated. The pictures are loaned
| by American artists, and at the close
| Of the biennial will be returned t., the
owners and, other loans made. There
| have been sufficient sales Of the pic
lures to satisfy the artists. There is
proponderence of water colors, as
they are easily framed with mats and
economical in transportation: The
main wall Of the senate chamber, d.
vided by central door gives an OPP
portunity to arrange the impresstonists
on the left and the others on the right
Ghilde Hassam Of New York, with
brilliant "Sunrise,'H'93 and daintier
one, UOff Shore. - This. Boston artist,
with French training, IS q member of
more than a dozen famous art societies
and adds honor and medals each year.
Juergens, Chicago artist, with
Munich instruction. has a brilliant
October on the Des Plains. = Two
water colors, uFarmer,'s Daughter
Forsyth Of Indianapolis, another i'm
pressionist who sold two paintings at
Mankato. A group of Washington,
ID. G., painters are Grace Atwater, two
marines; Edward Morse, East
Wind'; Lesley Jackson, with two sea
J studies at old Gloucestc-; Mass; and
Robert Childs, Lilly Pond' and "The
; a Julien academy man, often eccentric
in choice Of subject, shows E'The Fan. ,!
Mrs. Bixbee Of Boston has a good
study of ftBass Rocks" Cape Ann
Elizabeth Bonsal of Philadelphia, who
is often called the cat Specialist
, has two small tabby pictures, besides
"Solid Comfort pig in clover, but
as the Barbizon artist, Jasques, SC
f% tho for hs hseP pss has Ree5
j. not to be despised. 5da ~.
Good color and handling are seen il
3 Compera, and Adams Of Denver, boil
J. evening scenes. Chicago is we'll rep
: resented by Charles f. Brown, RALPH
: Clarkson, Albert Fleury, Oliver Grover
Mrs. Balfour, Mabel Packard and tn
: Vonderpoels. sSG
! Second The Collection Of Copies O
Old Masters-These oil paintings ar
% Pa1ed Ry the %sssus5 club Of sos sy
people, who realizing how compare
9 lively few could see the Europea1
originals, have employed our bes
= American artists, like William Chase
for instance, to make copies of suc]
J. masters as Rembrandt, Velasquez, Val
: Dyck, Halls, Reynolds and many others
+ is 2 pleasure to see s. in tn this roo room
f G. Marquand, one Of the most liberia
American art patrons. He was presi
d dent of the Metropolitan museum o
art from 1889 to 1902, the year Of hi
q death.
r Third The Collection Of Old Jal
anese Prints, loaned by Professor Bo
| tOu SOIC oIOWA VI OO6GOu. LID uo
W merited the admiration of all, not onl
from the exquisite coloring and ind
# viduality, but also from the large in
n fuence Of Japanese art in America
The simplicity Of design, the effective
% ness Of a single blossom or spray
# most suggestive, especially when W
consider how overcrowded America
ID decorations are, the beauty of the hes
Or being injured by proximity to thos
lacking harmony Of color or desig1
re Japanese books, calendars, etc., are ais
a, shown here.
" Fourth-The Arts and Crafts, a
III ranged under the direction of Mis
Bessie Bennett Of Chicago art institut
China, metal, leather, show how gres
the field is in art handicraft.
er Fifth-The Pottery is under the d
of rection Of Mrs. s. Frackleton of Oh
f. cago. This well known ceramic arti
1e SO long identified with Milwaukee, hs
u for several years devoted much tin
or to lectures on the plastic arts. She hi
re a demonstration with the potter
k. wheel, and with her experience ar
he success in china decorations Is int
IS esting manv.
ia Sixth School Decorations fill OF
at room consisting of the beautiful &C
th lection Of pictures for the public schoo
to which have been sent out to clubs /
ID the art committee Of the Illinois sta
federation. Illinois stands in the fro1
rank for this important work. II
!, pictures are reproduced in origin
3, colors and sepia and offer large choi
s, of subjects, published by a prominel