New Britain herald., 1917-12-07
INSTITUTE EXHIBIT
 BY SCHOOL TEACHER
Miss Sherinyan Has Amazing Co., lection in TalCOtt Art Room

There is on exhibition at the New Britain Institute Museum a collection of paintings and crafts, which is bound to attract unusual attention The exhibition consists of oil ana water color paintings, reed and bas- ket work hammered brass, pottery and jewelry work; and, although the r display takes up the entire space in the Talcott Art Room, the whole ex- hibit is the handiwork of Miss Eliz abeth Sherinyan. who is instructor in drawing. painting and design at the Grammar school. Miss Sherlnyan began her work at the Grammar school at the opening of the fall term, coming to this city from Worcester, Mass, where for six sum- mers she was supervisor of basketrH work in the Worcester City Play grounds. She was also formerly i'm structor in fine and industrial arts in the State Industrial School in Massa- chusetts.
 She is a graduate of the Massa- chusetts Normal Art School of Boston, and also of the Worcester Art Mu
 scum of Worcester, Mass, and has studied under Ernest L. Major. and Philip Hale of the Boston Museun' of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Special courses in landscape oil painting were taken under the instruction of Joseph H. Greenwood Of Worcester.
 l Since eight years of age Miss Sher- inyan has been interested in drawing and art work in all its branches. AL ] though Miss Sherinyan does not lay claim to brush work which will rival ] that of 1nness, Sartain, Cooper, flaw l thorne, Murphy, Bunce or other can 1 vases by masters whose works arc l permanent fixtures in the Talcott Art | Collection, nevertheless her work is worthy of the highest praise. Most artists have fixed particular subjects 1 which they center their whole atten- 1 ton and their very souls, as it were, { upon, and they dare not paint other 1 subjects for fear of running and losing their characteristic style or method.
 But with Miss Sherinyan it Is differ ent, for she can paint a portrait to- 1 day. and landscape tomorrow and [ produce splendid canvases. In her I exhibition at the Institute she has 1 considerable over a half a hundred 1 paintings-every canvas done by her
 self, and all could be spoken of as ! being worthy of special mention. To 1 choose the ones to lay pdrLlCuldr | stress on is difficult matter, but
 judging from expressions by the many
 visitors the painting, Autumn" would
 be given the honor of being, at least,
 the most popular. It is a canvas l which will catch the eye as soon as
 one enters the room. Another au-
 tumn landscape shows heavy wood
 land through which winds an old log
 ging road. The coloring of the dead
 and dying foliage is beautifully and
 perfectly executed, and the cloud ef-
 feet is charming. "Winter," is tho
 subject of a painting which shows Mother Earth covered with drifted
 snow, and it brings home to one the
 fact that the artist spent consider
 able time in studying nature unde.
 just such conditions. In fact it mat
 CTS not whether it is "The Roses."
 ''The Palms, "In Springtime," '"The
 Hills," or the portrait, "A Study in
 Brown and Orange or "The Black
 smith," each and every painting i'm 1 presses the observer with the idea that the artist gave much study 10
 the subjects. Furthermore one vii,
 have the impression that it took
 weeks and months to execute some
 of the canvasers. But Miss Sherinyan