Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-11
TO TELL STORIES
IN THE BRONZE
Valuable Art Collection to Be
on Display at Norman for
Rest of Month.
""s lust Five More Weeks Until Easter Morn
SHOWS A GROUP OF MASTERS
Poetry, Romance, Emotion and
Plain Sentiment Vitalized
in the Metal

Special to The World.
NORMAN, okla, March 10.-The
leading sculptors in America, the non
and women who are making the mod
orn tendency in the shaping of bronze
are talking" to students at the mi
versty of oklahoma this week. They
are talking only as artists can talk,
thru their works bronze statutes that
excite admiration for wonderful
beauty of line and that send "a song
to ones lips after the fashion of "A
spring flower, and that make one
stand in awe for their wonderful por-
trayal of soul. and still others that
make one wonder at the power of the
human hands to mold metal into
shapes so like those of their subjects
line the halls of the fine arts apart
monts at the state school
The collection includes works by
such masters as Kari Bitter, GutZon
Borglum, d c. French, +. w Mac
Aonnies H. A MacNeil A. =. Proctor
a. A. Weinman, Janet Scudder, per
haps the leading woman sculptor In
America, and Ann Vaughn Hyatt. who
won with her Joan of Arc" in a COM
petition with the artists of all the
world and now speaks thru that Won
deiful piece of equestrian statuay tc
the multitude who every day use the
riverside drive in New York city.
S,The collection was sent to the Cni-
vcrsitv Of oklahoma ly the American
Federation of Art 1t was assembled
in Washington, ID. c.. and Is perhaps
the most complete collection of Amer
lean masters YET shown at any poin;
between St. Louis and San Francisco
The University Of Oklahoma has a
local chapter in the national organ
ization.
30 Masters Represented.
The collection already at Norman
Comprises ! total of 80 works by ~
American masters. The collection of
works by the Borglum brothers. now
being shown in OlilahCn. u City, IL also
to be brought to the fine arts halls
for the benefit of students at the Uni
versily Of oklahoma. This exhibition
includes &c other works in bronze.
The entire collection Will remain un
der the care OF roi. O. y. Jacobson of
the fine arts department, whose repu-
tation made the obtaining of the
works possible, untll March 81. They
were sent here frCm Louisville. Ky.
1t is difficult to tell what works
are attracting most attention from
students Norman townsrepople and
oUt-of-town visitors who are viewing
the exhibition daily. Visitors eXclaim
with delight as they pause in passing
Edward Berge's "Wild flower" a bit
Of bronze shaped into the form of
child whose presence seems to breathe
the spirit of spring, of music. of
pleasure. They pause, but say moth
ing as they gaze into the shadows of
GutZon Borglum's "Ruskin," n work
that shows the influence of Rodin
who made a statute of BalZac only
after he had read all his works and
was able 20 interpret his very being
in the base metal.
All the great tendencies in modern
art are represented III the works now
being viewed in the university halls
Something remains still of the old
classical school, the one that is mod
cied after the art of the ancient
Greeks and strives to attain the ideal
ized human figure. 1t appeals princi-
rally to the intellect Herbert Adams
"Nymph," and DIANA" by Karl Bit
ter. represent the school that copies
after such figures as he Winged
Victory" Charles Iiinton's Atlanta"
shows the tendency of the sdmc
school , as does Victory" by AuSus-
tus Saint-Gaudcns and Edward r.
Sanford's Ajax"
Another tendency that has shown
its influence on American masters is
that of the classical figure, used tn
cXpress sentiment. The bronze figul es
have a certain lyrical liShtness that
makes them akin to the lyric in music
or poetry Berge's wild nower,'
Malvine Hoffmans "Faun and Panth-
er Cub" and +. w. MacMonnies
pan" are examples now being shown
at the University of Oklahoma.
Another tendency in modern art,
one of the leading tendencies, pec-
haps. is to forget the beauty of clas-
steal line and strive only for emotion.
"Old Woman Picking Up Coal,' by
Abartenia st. G.. Eberle is an excel
-r-ient example. showing an old women,
bent and haggard reaching to the
ground while her thin garments are
whipped about her by the wind.
Fighting Coats by Ann Vaughn
Hyatt shows the same tendency as
does "A Buffalo" by a. p. Proctor
and "Primtive Chant" by II. A. Mac
Neil
Telling n Story.
Other tendencies equally we'll rep-
resented by the works of the men and
women who are making tendencies in
modern art, are illustrated by works
on display in the university halls The
tendency to tell a story, with no at
tempt at emotion or classical beauty,
is shown perhaps best in THE Far
rier" by Mahourt NJ. Young. The ten
dency to present merely portrait
true to life, is perhaps best represent
ed by French's "Lincoln' and by
Wcinman's Charles II. Niehaus'.'
"The Little Lady of the Sea-"
work by Peanett Scudder, one of the
half dozen leading sculptors in
America, is attracting more than Its
equal share of attention. The little
lady" combines the beauty of classi-
cal lines with the lyrical movement of
the swishing of the waves that roll
up from her feet as she wades from
the ocean.
Loredo Taft and Mrs. Whitney are
the only two leading American artists
who are not represented In the eX-
hbit, which will be kept open for
visitors until March 81 No admission
Is charged for visitors.
WESTFAIL.