The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1916-01-30
ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION
At INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE
PICTURES BY MISS McARTHUR
TO BE SHOWN TOMOR.
ROW NIGHT.

Following the custom of great in
stitutions of learning, the Industrial
Institute and College has from time
to time given exhibitions of the
paintings of reputable American
artists, and on Monday evening in
the reading room of the main build
ing, the people of Columbus will be
given the opportunity to see a col
lection executed by Miss Betty Nc
Arthur, a member of the college
faculty and a daughter of Missis-
sippi, of whom we, as Mississippians,
should be justly proud.
From the New Orleans Item of re.
cent date, we take the following:
Where Mountain, Sea and Des-
ert Meet" the title of one of Miss
Betty McArthur's paintings in the
art gallery at Newcomb College
might we'll be the title of the entire
collection, for they were all n de IN
the valley Of the Salton sea, the in
land ocean created by the overflow
of the Colorado river in 1906, per-
haps one of the strangest localities
in the world.
Readers of "The Winning of Bar
bara Worth" will find the pictures
fit in with peculiar aptness to the
description given by the novelist.
Miss Macarthur spent the summer of
1915 in this strange valley, and has
caught the spirit of its wierd beauty
in water-color, pastel, and oil.
'In a recent letter, Miss Near
thur, who has now returned to Mis-
sissippi, writes; i am glad the
sketches proved interesting. They
were made in an interesting coun-
try. The Salton sea is very deep blue
in color as the pictures show. We
were two hundred feet below sea
level.
Miss Macarthur, who is a native of
Mississippi, is well known here, as
she studied in the Newcomb Art
School for part of two seasons, as
well as in the Art Academy, of Gin
cinnati, in Columbia University,
New York, and abroad. She has been
teaching applied art in the Indus
| trial Institute and College at Co
lumbus, Mississippi, for number of
years.
During all that time, the exhib-
| its of arts and crafts made by her
pupils have attracted marked at
| tention and won numbers of prizes
in the annual exhibitions at the Mis-
sissippi State Fair, at Jackson
When, in 1912, the Mississippi Art
Association was formed, Miss Nc
Arthur was its first president
and at its recent exhibition held in
Jackson during the fair, she was
awarded the first prize, exhibiting
there many of the pictures shown
| here during the past month.
Besides her landscapes and de-
sign work, Miss Macarthur is well
known as a portrait painter of un.
usual ability Her most conspicuous
success is her portrait, exhibited for
the first time in Jackson last fall, OF
the late G.. H. Alexander, the well.
known Mississippi statesman, who
was a candidate for governor in
1911. She has painted two remark
ably successful posthumous pic
lures of Mrs, Annie Coleman Pey.
ton, the woman who originated the
Industrial Institute and College for
girls in Mississippi. The Mississippi
Federation of Women'g Clubs plac.
ed one of these paintings in the hal
of fame in the capitol at Jackson.
Portraits Of Will.-m s. Lemly
of c. f. Lewis, miss H." Miss M
Katherine" and several others
have been shown by Miss Macarthur
in other exhibits. Several Of hel
paintings have been purchased fol
the permanent collection of the Mis-
sissippi Art Association, and other
are owned by art lovers in Louisiana
and Mississippi. She is member o
} the Art Association of New Or
leans, and has frequently exhibite,
in its annual exhibitions"