The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-12
By ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE

| By ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE
| "Ah," said visitor to the exhibit
ton in the public art galleries yes
terday indicating Mr.. Bundy's can
vas, winter Landscape" that is the
picture.
Little is heard of Mr.. Bundy nova
days in Richmond
He still paints in his studio on the
outskirts of the town, but his pictures
find their way into art museums and
private collections. A canvas by this
artist recently was quoted as selling
for fifteen hundred dollars. The Pal
ladium reprinted the other day an ex-
cerpt from a Chicago paper concern
Il ing one of his landscapes and an APP
probation of his artistic achievement.
| In this picture hanging at the cur
rent exhibit, is seen all that exquisite
refinement, poetic feeling. delicate
sentiment, magnetic atmosphere and
jewellike use of pigment for which
Bundy is known. Many persons know
him as painter of wood Interiors
alone but some of his most lllumlna-
tive prescriptions of nature are open
landscape as is this
! In this picture it is POLITICALLY realis-
tic-for realism is not necessarily bald
and undraped-there are poetic reali-
ties as we'll as more material ones
the snow not being obvious but it is
nonetheless as wintry as if painted
lacks in breadth but that it is this
artists peculiar manipulation of his
medium
This man is a great artist" said
the visitor who is familiar with the
work of all the mOderns. and who stat
ed that, in his opinion, THE Blue
Spring" was the gem of the perma-
, nent collection hung in the high school
galleries.
Max Nordau the widely known au-
thor of Degeneration" book which
was read the world over at the time of
| it's appearance, is an art critic Of
acumen although his lack in sense of
| humor makes him at times uninten-
| tionally amusing.
Like Tolstoi lie takes himself seri-
ously in his attitude toward art. These
two men. at the opposite poles of
thought, are alike in their desire to get
at the handspring of art. To Wrest
it's meaning from it's exemplars. To
outline definitely it's shadowy remote
nesses To interpret it's niche in the
scheme of things.
But neither succeeded
Both lacked in that vision which is
not unless filtered through humour-
that humour which sees the subtle
irony in art and which accentuates it's
terror when recognized in it's climax.
| Therefore both Nordau and Tolstoi
are funny at times in their disserta-
tions on art But Nordau hits the
truth more nearly, so far as the paint
| ing art is concerned, than does Toll
stoi.
OF Alexander. two of whose pictures
are hung here. Nordau says:
HE is master of the means of eX-
preston belonging to his art and
It with his dextrous
draughtsmanship and charming har-
mony of cool diluted color, might pos
sibly have pleased cOnnoisseurs. but
could hardly have attained world wide
fame.
"He therefore hit upon painting wo-
mems portraits in amazing positions.
He was the inventor of acrobatics in
tual. Alexander became first class
firm and the critics did not fail to
praise his special knowledge of, and
feeling for, the modern woman of
high-strung nerves and Satanic cap
rices."
Nov Alexander seems to find that
he has acquired sufficient fame. and
is abandoning his follies. Alexander
has slipped through the fingers of his
modern critics. While they still keep
on raving about his modern women
with high-strung nerves and Satanic
caprices.' he is painting prosperously,
peacefully, and intelligently. and can
now be recommended to the most re.
spectacle bourgeois families to i'm
mortalize their matrons"
There is something about this that
is delightfully."- ironical.
An interesting exhibition is being
given round at the Murray this week
by "Musart," who in real life" is Mr..
S. L. Young. and who is in vaudeville
more to please himself than for pure
ly professional reasons.
MIR. Young displays his artistic and
physical dexterity in painting two
landscapes at the same time and. al
SO. in painting with his foot while
playing an air on the violin. comb.
nation of mental and physical activity
that is difficult in the extreme as said
by "Musart" from the stage. The pc.
sition of the body is. in the first place
one which results in muscular strain
and in addition to the feat-if the