Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-11
SETON THOMPSON
STUDIES ANCIENT
INDIAN POTTERY.
Noted Author Artist and Nat
uraIiSt Greatly Interested in
Prehistoric Relics at Old.
Palace,

,.ssrlsl eoaBEspoNpsNcE TO MORNING JOURNAL
santa ne, Aug. l0.-Ernest seton
Thompson the famous author artis,
and naturalist. head of the Boy Scouts
a. the United States, and recently re-
turned from England, spent the af-
terBaon I'm the museum studying the
pr4blsturic pottery and the mural
naIntlngs AR. Seton goes to Taos toe
morrow % meet his family and to visit
several of his classmates, among them
tha artists. h L. Blumenscheln and Ill
r. Couse whose pictures on exhibit
i'm the Taos display at the old PalaceI
delighted him beyond measure He
was especially attracted by the big
yspcas of the church at Ranches del
Taos ~ Blumenschein, TO which he|
turned again and again, praising it for
its sunlight, its color its majestic
beauty Blumensehein's portraits of
tbe Blind Maurieio and Ventura, both
Taos Indians. also interested him very
much. In fact, he studied every onel
of The fifty canvases representing
eicbt Taos artists. From Taos Mr.
Seton goes to the biennial snake
dance among the Hopi on August 2l.I
Artists Allen True and Walter S UferI
have already left for the Hopi country
TO witness the dance.
Bookcase Is Received.
COL Ralph Emerson Twtchell has
presented another walnut bookcase tot
The museum which viii be used exclu-
giyely for the statistical library of the
state Geographical society This isl
the third bookcase presented by Col
Tvtchell. the other two having been
the first bookcases made at Santa Fe,
ny a cabinet maker from the states.
To Lecture ON Roman Portraits"
"Roman Portraits" will be the lee
mro of Prof f. w Shipley, president
of the Archaeological Institute of
America, and head Of the Latin de-
partmcnt of Washington university att
the museum on Tuesday evening a
week. Shipey is Canadian by birth
and graduate Of the University of
Toronto, but has his Phi D. from Chi
ago, and studied i'm the American
School Of Archaeology at Rome, Italy
BE has been at the two eXpostions
and delivered his lecture at the con-
yention of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. I'll
was greatly praised by the san Fran !
cisco papers I'm it's general outline
the lecture will sketch the develop
mont of Roman portraiture, Rome 81
chief contribution TO ancient art and
will touch upon the factors which i
contributed to its wonderful realism
ana individuality. 1t will deal oni
particular with the Identified portraits
of significant Romans, such as Caesar
Cicero, pompey etc, and a few of the j
emperors, most celebrated either fori
their goodness or their badness, and
viii discuss these portraits in rela-
ton TO the known data i'm regard to!
the characters and personalities of
the subjects From the standpoint of
individuality striking portraits arel
those of persons belonging to the mid
die classes and to the lower strata of
society," the peasant types Of the re-
i"'i'N"h btllb anu AHt llNA A''AiIN'
trades people and freedom Of the time
Of the empire. as well as representing
to doubt men who We're prominent
In the life of the republic
England Is TOO Quiet"
When asked now he liked "turbu
lent England Ernest Seton-Thomp-
SON replied, almost sadly England
Us not excited at an. i'm fact. it is too
quiet Mr. Seton has a book of In
ulan lore IN press that will probably!
be out for the holidays II will be
Illustrated with almost a thousand
sketches. many Of which he made inI
the southwest lie was for a time a
resident Of Union county near Clay
ton where he was Interested in a
cattle ranch.
Among those who registered at the
museum We're Ernest Seton-Thomp-
SON New York city; George A. Crumb, |
Lo'ngton, n NJ, Mrs Marion Burns.
Chicago, H.; Louise Keller, Pitts
purgh Pa Mrs John Morrow Ration
d orlando Northcutt Marjorie North
CUT Ruth Clark, Trinidad, Colo;
FRED w. James and Fred 70. Dennis
Clovis. Paul Russell Fitsch and j. Z.
Fjlseh. Jr, Detroit Mich: Rcv. and
Mis w w Wilson, owen Wilson, Mrs.
Naymc Smith, Mrs NJ. r. Williams
Ioledo, o. o, c. Sutherland, Warren,
M0.