Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-20
FAMILY PORTRAITS
UNDER BAN OF ART
Not Good Esthetics and Not
Good Taste to Have Pa
and Ma on Wall
HAVE A SHRINE FOR EN-
Bryn Mawr Professor of Modern
Art Says Rooms Must Ex-
press Personality
Rv M,GISs

when true artistry comes In at the door
let the family portraits so out tho window
or Into the ash can or, " YOU ARE Hent-
mentally inclined. into a secluded inner
shrine. where no eye but your own may
View them
You can't have living quarters In good
taste II tho family countenancos beam from
the walls and mantolpicce
lf YOU nrc away from home and suH-
ceptible TO nostalgia, hide mother In a
lOcltet on your breast or put her into the
innermOst sanctum Of your apartment,
where none but you pcnetratcs Let her
grace your bedroom, but the sitting room,
never
IN talk on the art that is or isn't used
by the college girl In furnishing her quar-
fcrs, Miss Gcorglanna King, professor Of
modern ART at Bryn Mnwr College, told
mo that the teaching which aho tries to
make most impressive to her classes is that
family portraits do not constitute arr that
II sentiment demands n gallery Of tho
loved ones at home, shrine should be set
up In the bedroom Their place s not
where the guests congrcgate
RESULT or POLL
II was Miss Kings classes which re-
Gently appointed judiciary committee
10 Investigate tho girls rooms with view
10 'aizing them up from the standpoint
OF art.
Their report In the college paper was:
Twenty-Five per cent in good taste.
Thirty-scvon per cent Indifferent.
FOrty-twO per cent bad.
which makes 1Oi per cent. but what's
an extra one per cent TO Jealous college
girl?
why are forty-two por cent Of tho
girls rooms In bad tnsto?" | asked Miss
King.
She's very human teacher with such n
pleasant face. and she likes lot Of tea,
lot Of dogs and lot Of children. She was
surrounded by all three when I called on
her the other afternoon
at was the girls who made tho report"
she reminded me- and their little college
paper Is not intended for outside Circula-
tion, but I'll tell you why rooms that arc
bad are bad. II Is because they are fur
niRhcd helter-skelter. The effect In not first
MANNED ms n whole Every picture in the
room. every rug. every hanging and every
piece OF furniture should he thought of In
relation to the whole scheme. girl coming
to college usually brings many things that
she has, which are OF sentimental rather
than OF artistic value
"One OF tho things that / try hardest TO
Impress upon the girls is that family photo
graphs are not art. They should not be set
out In the sitting room Let them be put
in n shrine In the bedroom The room dec
GRATED with banners and pennants is also
in bad taste"
MUST EXPRESS PERSONALITY
An interesting theory which Miss King
holds in regard TO the tnstcfully furnished
room IL that it must he becoming and ex-
press n personality
~ SEQ no reason why in furnishing n
room, one should not take into consideration
ones eyes, hair complexion and type Also
II room does not express the personality OF
it's owner II IL not good room. I can imag-
Inc very effective gray room for a quiet
little person who would he entirely lost in
an orange and blue ROOM let us say. A
room which might easily dominate one
woman will be wholly dominated by another.
The location OF the house should also be
regarded, room I'm the city surrounded
by tall buildings and the busy town life
could not he treated the same way as n
room out here at Bryn Mawr."
The room In which we sat-that OF n
friend OF Miss king's-had its walls covered
with cold Japanese paper OF gray and
white which seemed but continuation of
the snow outside, The furniture was of
mahogany and there were no geegaws Miss
King said It was n nice room. felt that
the neighbor's children. the innumerabIe
dogs and tho steamng grateful tea helped
make II so Also IL seemed to me n room
easily dominated" by n plnk-nosed rod
eyed bull terrier
Passing out of the campus through tho
Rockefeller Arch l came upon n student