The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-15
Appropriate Ceremonies Will
Be Held in New High School
Auditorium and Gallery then
Opened.
"A JURY FOR AWARDS
HAS BEEN SELECTED
Three Notable Art Critics Will
Select Canvases for Prizes
Local Artists Exhibit in
November.

Dedication of the public art gallery
in the new high school building will
be held on next Wednesday evening
the formal opening of the fourteenth
annual exhibit by the Richmond Art
association. At a meeting of the as
sociation officials on Friday evening
arrangements for the dedication and
opening of the gallery were fully dis
cussed and a tentative program out
lined. The dedicatory exercises will
the gallery will be thrown open to the
public for the first time since the COM
pletion of the new building.
The principal features in connec-
ton with the dedication will be music
and addresses by local residents and
pervisor of music in the public schools
will direct the high school orchestra.
President r. L. Kelley of Earlham
college will speak. as will also Will
liam Dudley Foulke. Mrs. NJ. F. John
ston, president of the art association,
and a representative of the school
board. 1t is probable that one or two
evenings program. Each address
will be short and will be appropriate
and refer to the art work done in
Richmond.
Select Awards Jury.
The election of officers of the asso-
citation and the announcement Of the
prize winners in the different con-
tests will also be part of the even
ing's program. Only members of the
association will be entitled to vote in
the organization for the ensuing year.
The jury for the awards has been Sc
lected and includes Clifton Wheeler of
the art school at Indianapolis, Halsey
Ives OF st. Louis, director of the art
museum there, and Antonin Slerba of
Chicago. The Mary T. Foulke prize
is the one which is chiefly sought az
ter by the exhibitors.
At the conclusion of the exhibition
Of pictures brought by the association
from all over the country there will
be an exhibition by Richmond artists
This exhibition will be opened in No.
vember and for this reason the dis.
play Of local paintings will not be SO
large at the exhibition which will be
opened on next Wednesday evening. 1t
is probable that the association will
make the November exhibit by local
artists an annual affair and one of its
purposes will be to aid the local art
lists in disposing of their works. The
Richmond prize will be awarded a,
the November exhibition.
The outlook for both exhibitions is
very promising. Membership in the
association has been increased and
more interest is being taken by the
| lay members since the association has
a permanent place in which to dis
play it's paintings. The association
now has a large number of pictures
and few pieces Of sculpture. These
are highly priced, in fact some of the
associations canvasses are the best II
the country.
On the opening evening of the Oc
have charge of the entertainment o
the visitors The committee include.
Mrs. Paul Comstock, chairman; Mrs
James A. Carr, Mrs. Charles E. Shive
ley. Mrs. Nettleton Neff, Miss Eliza
beth Comstock, Mrs. S. E. Swayne
Mrs. r. G. Leeds. Miss Juliet Swayne
Mrs W. W. Gaar, Mrs. John H. Mich
olson, Mrs. Ray Robinson, Mrs. T. A
Mott. Mrs. Lee B. Nusbaum and Mrs
w. D. Foulke. Punch will be served
by Miss Helen Nicholson, Miss Gene
We've Newlin. Miss Dorothy Dill ant
Miss Airline Shreeve.