The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-16

one" she asserted. Mrs. Johnston did
not in the least belittle science. but
lives longer than words" she declared,
and used the repetition of the Lotus
symbol in Egypt, the love OF the per-
feet human form that characterized
Greece, and the Christian nations ex-
preston of fervor through paintings
of the Madonna, etc, as a few of many
illustrations of this fact. See what
beauty has been left to US by the diff
ferent civilizations, that could not pos
sibly have been put into books" she
exclaimed. ...s
Relating the history of the Art asso-
citation of Richmond, which has become
famed all over the country. Mrs john
ston traced the growth of the idea that
art exhibits should be for everybody,
and said: IF you're going 20 accom-
plish anything permanent, you JUST
have to bring up generation of chit
dren trained to art appreciation, In
your community" She detailed the
various methods Of raising finances for
this work in Richmond: and related
with pride how art exhibits there were
made community affairs, starting with
annual exhibits held in the various
rooms and transformed corridors of
the high school building
1t was largely through Mrs. John
ston's influence that the splendid art
gallery that has won such favorable
comment from many critics, was finally
incorporated in the fine new high
school building of which Richmond is
so Justly proud. She has been presf-
dent of the Richmond Art association
for twenty years, and claims that when
the association has reached the age of
25 years its accomplishments, II they
continue, and continue they surely
must, will have become permanent
ones, because generation will have
been correctly trained along art lines
slides illustrate Lecture.
Mrs. Johnston illustrated her lecture
with a large number of beautiful
stereopticon slides that aided the audi
ence in understanding just what had
been done in Richmond to cultivate
civic art. No one would have recog-
nized the settings of the various art
exhibits, including not only paintings,
but manual training work. Persian rug
displays, artistic furniture examples OF
the art of vanishing race. the Indian,
colonial and sculpture exhibits as be-
ing the rooms and corridors of a school
building, so completely had they been
transformed with only a little work
and determined effort. The Indian ex-
hibits flashed on the screen were loan
ian institute, and the Richmond asso-
citation has always found artists and
art Institutes most willing to help
along the good work. Many valuable
mont schools. and. the school board
there buys the frames for all painting
purchased by the children. "If you
want to get anything done. hitch onto
school," advised the speaker. "it'li save
a lot of time and expense" Our Amer
lean painters of the landscape are the
greatest in the world, she cited. and
showed on the screen several exhibit
ed and now owned by the schools there.
Nine exhibits a year are now held in
that high school.
The address was preceded by a de-
lightful group of pipe organ numbers
by Miss Florence Gormley, who played
Prayer from Lohengrin (Wagner), Mid
from That's (Massenet), Rustic Dance
and Thanksgiving, both by Demarest.
Mrs. Johnston left here Saturday
morning for Grand Forks, where she
spoke that day at the state university.
She was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. T.
]. Graham while here.