The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-03
. MIDDLE WEST" HAS
Be en- DISCOVERED
S Wonderful Artists Arc
Creating Furor in French
Capital.
AMAZING PICTURES SHOWN
Cities Are Predicting Great
Things From These Ameri-
can Painters.
BY VANCE THOMPSON.
Especial Cable to The T!mss-Dlspatch

by NAN1E
Especial Cable to The Times Dispatchl
Paris, April 2.-F'rench artists, in
Guiding Henri Rochefort and Gabriel
Moury, have made an astounding dis
coyery regarding American art. They
have discove ed the Middle West.
Pictures sent in to tho Socete Ma
tional des Beaux Arts. which was for
merly known as the New Salon, have
shown an amazing strength In four
or five landscape artists from the Mid
die states--1llinols. Michigan and Wis
consin.
Moury says: These men have created
a school which rivals the famous Bar
bazen school OF the last generation of
French pain,crs." He points out the
fact that the only great original
painters of America have always been
landscaplsts, and foretells a rich arr
tistic future for tho landscaplsts OF
the Middle West.
Critics have placed as the head of
this school John Noble OF Wichita,
Kan. lie Is known in the West as a
portrait painter for his genre work
and studies OF Indian life. Half dozen
years ago he came to Paris. studied in
the Latin Quarter and abruptly dis
appeared He bought a small place.
ut Pout Croix. in Brittany. and forl
two years he worked there Paris has
just seen the result of his work. twoI
pictures now n the independent salon.
Evening at Saint Croix" and IA
Moonlight Scene" in the same village.
These pictures have started the
French artists talking. When his two
big canvases were accepted for the
salon, the critics began to wake up
and discovered an entire Middle West
school.
Men Find Themselves Famous.
The men who were finding them
selves famous arc Friesicke. of wis
eonsin; Richard Miller, of ST. Louis.
who Is hailed as the greatest tech
nlcian in Paris: Marion Barlow. of
Michigan, who lives at Etantes, and
has carried on the Whistler tradition,
and John Maurice, of Canada. Won
derful landscape colorist.
The most individual work is that
OF John Noble. He paints In low
key with wonderful strength and
solidity of color. What is most notable
is the atmospheric quality of his
work. The best judges in Paris have
hailed him as a new colorist of un-
usual depth and individuality. It has
a Western grip, and that is the reason
he is considered the head of the new
schoschool of Middle West art. Noble
is a blonde man of thirty-five. His
father is well known in Kansas as
school of Middle West art. Noble
was married in Strassburg Cathedral
to Miss Amelia Paisch. wellknown
pianist and composer.
And here is another artist from the
Middle West. Miss Marguerite Lemon,
a young American prima donna, has
sailed for New York. Miss Lemon
was loaned by the management of theI
metropolitan Opera House for the pur-
pose of singing Madame Butterfly"I
in Germany. Her Interpretation of
the part was so successful that she
sang In the Berlin, Dresden and
Frankfort opera Houses for three
years. refusing a tempting two years.
engagement in Vienna, as she is still
under contract in New York.
Miss Lemon said just before sailing
mixture of the sublime and the ridicu-
lous. Sometimes her admirers would
send her presents OF stockings, or even
soup ladle. She returned to her ma
tive State OF Indiana for a rest be-
fore returning to New York to sing
next winter.
a TnrdiIy Developed Artist,
Lester Eddy father of ]. Spencer
Eddy, the brotlpr of Mrs. Marshall
Field, has made triumphant debut
into the field of art. Mr.. Eddy spent
forty wears amassing fortune as the
most arlstocratic grocer in Chicago.
After that he tried society. and found
1t bored him. Then he decided to be-
come portrait painter, being at that
time sixty years of age.
The society friends to whom he con-
fided his ambition scoffed. but he re-
ned-determined A few years ago
he came to Paris and fitted up al
luxurious studio near Mrs Marshall
Fields beautiful home. He went quiet
~ and earnestly to work and thisi
year he sent several of his pictures
to the salon. Now society is applaud
ing him here
j. Spencer Eddy who married Miss
specllles, of California. is known.
throughout two continents as the best
dressed man in the American diplo- |
matte service. He is exceedingly proud
of his fathers talent. Looking at Mr.
Eddv's alert and energetic face UNDER
It's crown OF snow white hair, romp-
Ing about With his tiny grandson, It'll
seems impossible that he should have
achieved such artistic success, con
sdering the fact that between the
ages of eighteen and sixty he never
gave thought to art.
DR. Henry G. Rowland. formerly al
surgeon In the United States Army
and author of the book "Germaine"l
that created so much discussion last
winter as TO its moral tone, has placed
an order for q boat large enough TOT
cruise to India, He expects to make
protracted tour of tho Far East
for tho purpose of studying tho
Oriental conception of the spirit world
He has been living in Paris for tho
last few years, and has devoted con.
siderable time TO psychical research.
King I'm Great Gbod Iiumor.
Especial Cable to The Times Dispatch I
London, April 2.--Pr!vate advIces from
Biarritz give scintillatnE accounts OF the