The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-20
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
Mrs. SiSSOn;S Art
Put on Exhibition
Is Very Pleasing
Showing at University Proves
Sincerity and Under
standing of Artist.

Nature in various moods. beautiful. |
mysterious and rugged. has been in J
terpreted with remarkable sincerity |
and understanding by the brush of |
Mrs. f. o. Sisson. wife Of the president |
of the State University and a new
conner here. The work of this emf
nent artist was opened by the Missoula
Art league yesterday afternoon at the
art rooms Of the university. The
studio was thronged with admring
visitors. each one Of whom spoke Of
some friend who would be eager to
see the paintings If they remained
upon the walls next week.
The paintings are grouped, % oil
paintings Of nature. IL unframed
studies. six copies of famous works OF
master artists of Europe; seven water
color sketches of cottages in Cornwall.
England, and three sketches from the
English lake region.
The subjects Of the pictures 80
grouped are the following:
Oil Paintings.
l-Washington Wild Flowers.
Summer Days.
3-Daisies.
4-Washington Beach
a-The First SNOW
s-Street in Venice.
Wild Spirea.
s-The Boise Hills.
9-Watering Trough.
10--Willows In Spring.
11-Nf paiuior in C>,,apinc oh
12--October Mood.
l3-The Olympic at Sunset
1i-Santa Maria Della Salute.
Windy Day In the Olympics
16-The Road to Arrowrock. Idaho.
INT. Rainier at Dawn.
Is chusetts Spring
Opal sunset.
1o-Where Jack Frost Has Been
2l-Rosy Dawn.
| o2-E,vonjng Light.
o3Path in the Maine Woods
Unframed Studies.
! 24-Fir Trees in Sunlight
| 25-F'ir Trees in Fog.
26-Wild Foxsloves.
| 27-The JunEfrau.
/ 2S-Autumn Sketch
2a-Spring Sketch.
S0-Mt Rainier on Frosty Day.
81 Sprineine Wheat.
22-Study Of Olympic Mountains.
! 33-Grapes.
| 2iState House. Boise
| 35Still Life.
Copies.
aS-St. Anthony of Padua after Mu-
| rillo. Spanish school.
37-The Vision of Daniel, after Rem
brandt. Dutch school,
as-Child With a Bird after Rnbens
Dutch school.
ga River Landscape, after C1,yp
Dutch school.
| 40-Renedictlon Wand. Austrian
Lyrol. after Karl Oeneka. modern
painter
Water coiors.
II, ~, 43. 44--Cottages in Cornwall
England.
| 45-:Wayside Cottage.
ia Cottage Garden.
| 47-Heather.
pages from a Sketchbook made II
the English lake regionl
4S-Cornish Coast.
49-Acadcmic Still Life Study.
50-The Jungfrau Group. SwitZer
land
Admiration was expressed equal,
yesterday. for the soft atmospheric eff
fects of the Washington coast scenes
for the moods Of old Mount Rainier a
sunset, at dawn and on a frosty day
for woods and mountains and clouds
and for the brilliant. clear-cnt copy o
master pieces Of other times. E.dga
s. Paxson, Mrs. Spottswood and Pro
fessor Scheuch and others who hat
seen the original paintings in the ar
galleries Of Europe, said yesteu1a,
that only rarely Is the spirit and tn,
technique Of these works so finely re
produced as ii Is on Mrs. Sisson,.
canvas.
Mrs. Sisson studied with Kar
Oeneka in Berlin as well as with +. G
Peyraud of Chicago. and with othe
teachers at the Chicago art institute
Her work has much Of 1t been sold
but these pictures she is keeping n
the request Of family and friends
The collection had been loaned to tn.
art department of the university TO
the benefit Of the students when mem
bers of the Art league asked permits
sion to share the treat with other citi
zens. The pictures may he seen mex
week from 4 o'clock until $40 o'clock
each afternoon.