The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-12
BIC ART EXHIBIT
Work of Noted KanSanS on Dis
play at Big Free Fair.
Many New and Interesting
Paintings Being Shown.
MANY EXHIBITS FROM Topeka
LindsbOrg Artist Shows Latest
Rocky Mountain Scenery.
MerreH Gage Statuary Is an In
tereSting Feature.
MANY EXHIBITS FROM Topeka

Inc state Id1r ART eXnlDlls White
perhaps not quite as large as the one
of last year, and despite the fact that
some of the work on display is already
familiar TO Topekans, cantains, never
theless, many new, good and interest
ing features.
Berger Sandzen, head of the art de-
partment of Bethany college, Linds-
borg, Kan, exhibits four very beauti-
full oils. They are of his favorite sub
ject-Rocky mountain scenery-and
are fully equal to his pictures in the
Kansas Federation of Art exhibit at
the state house this week. Mr.. Sand
zen's work is a little beyond the grasp
of the general public in this part of
the country but it is to be hoped that
it will speedily develop the apprecia-
ton it deserves.
Mrs. Pauline Haynes Shirer exhibits
five very original and beautiful de-
signs in water color, for theater drop
curtain, while her husband, Hampton
Shirer, has a varied exhibit of mezZo-
tints, silver jewelry set with jade. and
a very beautiful set of ten art photo
graphs.
Mrs Katherine Lindsey Perkins, of
Topeka, exhibits several small land
scape oils and a charming little group
of charcoal drawings. Among the
former is an attractive little work,
showing a village church surrounded
by trees and a clear little river flow
ing in the foreground.
Gage Has Work on Display.
Merrell Gage has contributed two or
three mezzotints and some pieces OF
sculpture. Among the latter are a
small statue called Father Love"
and a head of a plainsman of the old
school, called THE Ranger
Some other Topekans who have
good exhibits in oil and water color
are Miss Marian Peers and her pupil,
Miss Ruby Smell, Miss Clarisse Lau-
rent, Mrs. Marie Price Wear, Mrs. K.
T. Erwin and Miss Gladys Cav.
Mrs. Rex Payne of Hutchinson,
Kan, exhibits two oils, a bunch of
small roses and a harvest field scene,
both of them quite good. The art de-
partment of Paramount college, Wich-
tia, of which Miss Elizabeth Sprague
is the head, exhibits group including
pencil sketches, charcoal drawings, oil
and water color paintings, wall paper
designs, drawings for interior decorat-
ing and furnishing, etc. This work is
all excellent and reflects high credit
on this school and its faculty.
The Washburn college fine arts de-
partment, of which Mrs. L. D. White
more is the director, has two small
rooms fitted up and decorated; one
as studio and the other as a library
The work in both of these shows ex-
I
Washburn believes in educating the
general public by actual example. To
make the studio room as realistic as
possible, George NJ Stone, who is a
member of the art faculty of the
school, paints a portrait sketch in oils
| each day, in the presence of the as
sembled public.
The Ceramics Department.
There are several new exhibitors in
the ceramics department this year.
Some of these and their work are Mrs.
E. Mcdonald of Topeka, a bureau set
and a vase, both decorated in conven-
tional designs; Mrs. w. B. Berry, To-
peka, tea set in green and gold; Miss
Dave of Wamego, chop platter with
conventional decoration in gold and
neutral tint; Mrs. Morris Schlegel, To-
peka, tile tea tray decorated with
garden scene of the Georgian period.
Other good work has been contributed
by Miss Janney of Salina, and Miss
Blanche Sanders of Topeka. Lucille
Troupe, a young colored girl of To-
peka, exhibits a beautiful breakfast
set in blue and gold which for both
good taste and workmanship COM
pares most favorably with any other
work in the exhibit Miss Troupe also
exhibits a pleasing decorated vase.
Miss Dickey, of Topeka, exhibits a
collection of good work in fooled
leather.