The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-15
TO OPEN
EXHIBITION OF ART
Art Study Class to Act as
Hostess of Three Hundred
and Fifty Guests.
PLANS WINTERS WORK
Mrs. M. F. Johnston to Show
Work of American
Etchers.
PLANS WINTERS WORK

The exhibit of the Richmond Art AS
sociation will open this evening in
the Public Art Gallery at the
High School with a reception TO
$50 invited guests, at which Mrs. Ell
mer Eggemeyer and the Art Study
class will act as hostesses. Superinten-
dent and Mrs. ]. T. Giles, Professor
and Mrs. F. C. Pickell, the guests of
honor will be presented to the mem
bers of the association.
The invitation list includes former
members of the association and spec
ial friends. as we'll as those who be-
long at the present time. An orches-
ira will play during the evening and
refreshments will be served.
Beginning Thursday morning the eX-
hibit will be open to the public during
the week from 9 to II o'clock and from
l to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. 1t will
also be open of evenings when the
night school is in session and from 2
to O'Clock Sunday afternoons. After
the close of the exhibit in this city Oc-
tober Fl, the paintings will be taken
to Louisville, Ky.
Class Work.
The first meeting of the art study
class, of which Mrs. James Judson is
chairman, will be held at the gallery
tomorrow morning. The class meets
every two weeks to study the pictures.
Different members are assigned to
make a study of the life of the artists
and give reports of their work.
Throughout the year the gallery will
be used for receptions by the schools
and societies. Hhe Music Study club
will open the years program Wednes-
day afternoon October %.
Other exhibits have been arranged
for each month of the year continuing
until next summer. The last two
weeks of November will be devoted
to a display of canvasses by Indiana
artists. The complete list of artists
and the paintings to be represented in
the exhibition will be announced la
ter.
To Show Etchines.
Immediately following, during the
first two weeks of December, Mrs. NJ.
F. Johnston, president of the local art
association, has arranged to exhibit
a collection of ettings by American
etcherS. .-.----,-. -
The last of January the Domestic
oClouCe ASSOCldllOn, Ol WHICH MIS-
Benton Addington is president, is plan
ming to give to the women valuable
ideas in home decoration. Mrs. Allen
d. Hole, is chairman of the commit
tee arranging for the exhibit. All the
new materials for home Identification
and the most artistic methods of ar
rangement will be demonstrated.
A special exhibit of the work of two
Indiana artists is on the program for
two weeks in February. T. G.. Steele,
of Indianapolis, has accepted the invi-
| tation to exhibit some of his paintings.
Mrs. Johnston does not know what
other artists will be represented.
Some one will be invited whose work
! is of a different character.
| In March the annual exhibition of
| canvasses by Richmond artists will
| be held. No arrangements have been
made for the April program. The
years work will be closed in May
with the annual exhibit of the draw
! ing, manual training and domestic
science done by the students of the
| city schools.