The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-10-26
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
Interesting is the exhibit of Indiana
artists now on in the public art CALLER
les.
Interesting because it is a showing
of native and local art.
Interesting because it gives the pub
lie an opportunity to contrast
A love of art exists only in that COM
munity which gives an impetus to the
creative spirit.
A civic center which does not encour-
age it's artists, in whatever media, to
produce, is like sterile fruit tree that
gives out only luxuriant foliage or
rose bush that turns into gorgeous
shrubbery but never flowers.
Therefore it is that the bestowal of
the Mary T. r. FOulke prize given
yearly for the best picture painted by
an Indiana artist submitted, and the
best by a local artist, are the real cri
terion of the towns reputation as a
community which exploits the painting
art.
Richmond Work Counts.
And it follows that the present ex-
hibition is the most interesting on &C
count Of it's display Of native art in
competition.
1t is not what the artist who lives in
New York or Chicago or San Francisco
does that counts, so much as the art
ist who lives in Indiana and especially
Richmond, in this instance.
We have resident in Richmond one
of the leading landScapistS in America,
J. E. Bundy.
One who rests on such exalted ac-
complishment of pure genius that he
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only through his gracious generosity
that his canvasses are hung in these
exhibits Of Indiana art
Bundy sends pictures for exhibition
to add to the exhibitions interest. And
they give an eclat it would not other
wise possess.
His pictures shown now are among
his best-three large canvasses and
one small. And they are loaned. Not
for sale.
Three Of them, "Wane of Winter"
Brook in Winter" and Autumn
Woods have been shown before.
The fourth, "On Clear Creek-Even-
ing is seen for the first time in Rich
mOnd and is mastery transcription.
No one who is able to get to the
gallery should fail to see this wonder
full picture.
It embodcs, in it's presentation
those occult qualities which make of
Bundy great artist and which put
him outside the pale of ordinary can
ons of criticism.
Shows Peculiar Technique.
But, under the latter the canvas is
showing of this artists technique at
it's apogee and of his jewel-like quail
ity of pigment, referred to otherwise
many times by the writer and which
give his product distinction which
sets him apart from many of his cele-
brated confreres
There is a spot of pure color in this
picture-the reflection of the sky in
the water-which is "of an exquisite
ness
| When color is under consideration,
however, there is a gorgeous exhibit
ton of it's prodigal use in small pic
ture by George Baker called Late
Afternoon" thrown on the canvas with
that careless sureness which is Mr.
Bakers chief claim to conspicuity.
Here is an artist, highly endowed,
who paints with the ease and assur-
ance of many a versed academlc1an
and yet who has only his native gifts
to build upon.
This community should not permit
such talents to languish for lack OF
encouragement And the only genuine
encouragement is in the purchase of
his pictures.
A number of others are shown this
year from his brush, all small, but all
notable for some phase of his techni
cal prowess, EARLY Spring Mist" hav'
ing fine sky "Evening' the feel
Of the dying day: Gray October an
atmospheric tonal study, and Moe
turne," a successful handling of color
after the manner Of Whistler.
Frank Girardin is the most fully ex
hlbited of the local artists, Girardin, al
, his best being a colorist, shown. per
haps. most conspicuously in his Fall
ing Leaves" which is fresh and crisI
in its handling and attractive pictor
tally
Picture by Girardin.
August Observation-Disclosures by
Mr.. Glrardin, is one of the best exam
pies of his work shown this year. its
scene familiar and it's pictorial quail
ties evident
, TWO OF the most striking pictures in
the entire exhibit are those of w. T
1 Eyden, who is skillful in his handling
: of color, The Closing of a Day. a
panel effect in water color being extra
ordinarily decorative and with a BIZ
zarre attraction in it's composition; the
other, an oil. The Pines" being Wig
orously handled and also of decorative
quality.
Interesting, also, are the two small
water colors by William Eyden, Jr., a
young artist whose work is ATTRACTING