Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-04-08
FROM THE PEN
OF LITERARY CLUBS
NEW PRESIDENT.

| Inc IOlloWlng ls portion OF re-
cent Wednesday Club duty of Mrs.
Elon Dearing on "Art and Music.
The excerpt contains mention of
those of especially local interest-as
it will be noticed that most of those
mentioned have been in some way in
touch with the hub centre, Mexico,
Mo. Mrs. Dearing was honored by
the Club at it's closing session the
last Wednesday in March by being
made its President for 1856.
A FEW MISSOURI ARTISTS.
Robert Edward Ball, Jr., is the
son of Mrs. Robt. Edward Ball, who
formerly was Miss Stella Hereford
Hardin College graduate. He
studied in Paris under Miller, one of
the foremost American artists in
Paris, and spent a great deal of time
on The Reviera. He struck a new
note in art-it is said one man in a
generation successfully strikes-and
he is the man. The new note was
architectural design with peculiar
atmospheric effects. A picture of
The Alexander III. Bridge enveloped
in a peculiar blue haze with the sun
shining through, is one of his best
pictures. He had public exhibit in
Kansas City, recently, with about 35
or 40 pictures in the collection.
He sold $2,OOO's worth and each
picture sold at from $3.50 to $400.
One picture has been accepted by
the Paris Salon.
George Baker, son of Mrs. H. P.
Warden, is making quite name
for himself. He has his studio in
New York and makes specially of
Portrait Painting. One of his best
paintings is a portrait of Elsie
DeWolfe's niece, Winifred, who lives
with Miss Anne Morgan daughter
of J. P. Morgan). The picture is
life size and she is sitting in a chair,
with a large leghorn hat and q
wreath of roses in her hand. He
also illustrates for magazines--Col-
Pliers, Metropolitan, etc.
Jay Edward Hambidge is also an
accepted artist. He lived in Mexico
for several years and you will find
a portrait of Mr. Ben Locke in the
County Clerks Office and some scroll
work on a road map in the Court
House which are the works of his
pen. Mr.. John T. Ricketts, has also
number of his etchings. He has
studio on Broadway in New York
and illustrates for The Ladies Home
Journal and other magazines.
Pemberton is one of the most fa-
nous Missouri artists and he is
noted for his "Order No. IL" and
''The Electioneer".
Morris of Joplin, a painter of
horses, is noted for his picture of
REX Mcdonald.
Paul Harvey is noted for his barn
yard scenes and is known as
Chicken Painter.
Robert Harshe, who lived in Mex
leo for several years and taught in
the public schools here, is at the head
of the art department of Leland
Stanford University. He has studied
abroad and is at present the Assist
ant Director of the Art Exhibit at
the Panama Exposition.
VIM. M. Chase, who spent part of
his early life in Mexico, is regarded
by many critics as the greatest living
American painter. He is a portrait
and figure painter chiefly and is now
&C years old. He has won honors at
all the great salons here and abroad.
He will visit in st. Louis on April
18th and assist In distributing the
cash prizes at the annual salon of the
St. Louis Artists Guild.
Frederick Oakes Sylvester, my
Art Teacher at Central High School
in ST. Louis. was one of the most
widely known landscape painters in
the middle west Mr.. Sylvester won
distinction also as poet. A volume
of his eompositians, published in
1911, was illustrated with reprodue-
tions of his paintings, the frontis-
piece being a Mississippi River
scene. Besides winning general rec
ognition as one of the leading Amer
lean landscape artists. Sylvester
was awarded bronze medal at the
!, st. Louis Worlds Fair in 1914 and
a silver medal at the Portland Expo
sition. He won the Fine Arts Build
! ing prize of the Society of Western
Artists in 1907. Sylvester was es-
peoially noted as an interpreter OF
, the Mississippi River and not only
: his pictures, but several of his poems
. were dedicated to the majestic