Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-06-06
DECORATIONS BASED ON TRUTH

| greater than present ones the scene OF
Washington crossing The Delaware would
seem The most fitting for decorating a city
hi,ii AT Trenton But the task was en-
| srust~d 10 MIR Everett Silinn and he lei
the father of his country gest with the
a'fistr lsnrels that already decorate him
md started on, TO celebrate Trcntoil'S stee:
and pottery works. Washington at rren.
on wrote an Important page in history;
! nut that nights noines. MIR. Shinn feels.
I'D little toward the growth OF Trenton,
or even The Survival OF it The thing to
picture IN the city ham. lac asserts, lis the
grand aud glorious work hat makes the
city and the city han possible Keep that
before the mea that sit III the council
chamber and Nou keep the interests OF the
city ever before them. So Mr.. Shinn was
, able 10 persuade the people OF Trenton Or
this truth in deciding how they should dec
lofais their new ciVic building His work
and IDEAL are described IN the Craft snan
where we read iha; his sleat panels, As
feet long by y feet high have not "a
single suggestion "f ins'rerity artificially,
or the painting for pure decorations
sake
The subject Of The left panel shows
men working the colossal steel mills
~ the right The men are equally energetic
M the vast pottery works. Because these
studies are realistic because blood course :
cause The dignity al the workmen is the
dignity of men and no, of .npernen. crit
les say That they ar. wholly modern, and
ho'ilre hem as 4 new phase of art Hlt
as matter OF fact they really represent
IN arr OF decoration that is as old AS the
asrs the art based truth, and inherent
in it
in lreparin. to rsti,it these subjects the
artist spent six months living alternately
hot,
pottery kilnS OF Harry M.rttvck AT 'rr.n-
ton. There he sought wh;,l The painter
calls atmosphere. aild efher people rall
knowledge" Pm what he has shown of
these factories is what any Truthful man
would have shown US. We read.
He went TO them 10 know them. He
put his hanas tn levers To feel the pun of
them and their give n. lstcned TO the
roar of the furnaces. brav-el their white
hea, waited Xix. revenge through their
opened doors felt ia. force aud delica.y
Of stool monsters fell The cshiaration of
victory over stubborn Su"e and malleable
clay, felt the glorious pride and force of
the skilled artizan Wlien he got back
TO his studio he like charger with
the smell of gunpowl"r SIAN in his nos
,rils. He knew thai while Il statesman
can make or break an empire ao can not
bend an iron bar The men who can do
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cause ne hau put = l".itif"f 3fts"h on the
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