The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-12
LARGEST FAIR EXHIBIT
High Quality OF Paintings and
Drawings Entered Mt Fair.
RY cARL P. BoLMAR.

BY CARL +. BOLMAIl.
The art exhibition at the State Fair
this year is larger than ever before,
esnecialIy in the number of paintings
and drawings entered. The quality of
the work, too, is fully up to past STAN
dards.
The most striking feature is .
group OF paintings, oraWinss, 49,
engravings, Autographs and etchings.
all the work of Berger Sandzen. head
of the art department of Bethany col
lege. Lindsborg Kan. There are fifty
pictures in the group. Professor Sahu,
zen is an impressionist of the Droao
school, but the handling of details IN
his smaller pictures show that ne Is
full master of drawing, nevertheless
Most of Sandzen's work Is landscape;
pictures painted in Colorado, and 9TH
ser western mountain states iney
are a veritable riot of gorgeous color.
portraying most vividiy the intense
local hues,- the brilliant sunshine, and
the clear atmosphere OF the locahty
where they are painted.
= The large paintings, Cedar ana
Rocks. Heart of the Mountains" and
Snow and Sunshine" painted as GAL
lery pictures, are most impressive TO
those who know Rocky mountain seem
cry, and understand the impression
lists aim and point of view. These pic
lures should be viewed from half way
across the building, to be properly ap-
preciated. Two smaller paintings,
1.-THE New Moon" and valley in the
Mountains" are exquisite bits Of i'm
pressionistic art, and are seen at their
best, from directly in front of the rail
surrounding the exhibit. ''The New
Moon" is a Kansas scene.
Prof. Sandzen is a mani of broad
culture and has studied under many
distinguished painters in Europe. He
fc IF renowned Swedish
artists Anders Zorn and Richard
Bergh, both OF whom have left their
impression strongly stamped on Prof.
Sandzen.
While studying in the studio OF
Aman-Jean in Paris, he met many
American students and thru these be-
came interested in America. finally
making up his mind to come to the
United States. Since arriving in
America, he has become well and
favorably known in the best art cir
cles. His work was exhibited at the
Panama-Pacific exposition and his
canvases hang in many public and
private collections.
Mrs. Pauline Haynes Shirer has an
attra ctive group of fifteen sketches at
the Free Fair. They are poster de-
signs, book cover designs and designs
for book plates. wall paper and tex
tiles. Most of them are compositions
in very original abstract ornament, at
which kind of work Mrs. Shirer Isl an
adept.
Sergeant Hampton Shirer and
Frank Peers of Topeka. both now in
the army, and both before the war,
students of the Boston school of tech
nology, are represented by good
work. Sergeant Shirer exhibits an ex-
cellent war poster done in black and
orange. 1t represents a torpedo boat
destroyer tearing thru a choppy sea
The orange color is used to represent
Iha morning or evening sun, shining
on the clouds and water. He also ex-
hibits two architectural designs that
won him prizes at school,
Mr.. Peers exhibits a prize architec-
| tuFal design and some pieces of hand
i craft work, among the latter, a tent
candle lantern made while he was in
! camp, and g set of silver spoons
Miss Frances Lindsey of Topeka
SHOWS three water colors of great
beauty and finish of technique. The
| most striking Of these is a figure
done in sepia and called Might n
[ is not only handled with great arts.
TIC skill but shows deep poetic feel
ing and much creative skill. Her 9th:
er Two pictures are landscapes.
Miss Mayme Parsons of Toneka ex.
| hibits two oils, a still life study and ar
| ideal study called Devotion" The
| latter is picture of a Red Cross
| nurse pIedging her devotion to the
american flag and all that it stands
for. Miss Parsons is one of the com.
Ing young artists of Topeka. Her work
shows Its greatest promise along the
! line of Illustrating.
A new exhibitor at the fair this wear
| is Mr.. L. A Gillette of TIT Fillmore
street Mr.. Gilette's pictures are in
| group by themselves on the South
wall of the building near its east end
Several OF them are very beautiful and
OF decided artistic merit. Especial,
the ones painted in the neighborhood
| OF Colorado Springs and Manitou. Mr.
Gillette has been in the lumber bust.
| ness here for several years and use.
| art as diversion. He has studied IN
| the art schools of San Francisco, Cal
Mrs katherine Lindsey Perkins an6
Mrs. L. Cady Hodge of Topeka, each
| have several landscapes in oil anf
water color on exhibition.
| The Kansas university's contribution
l this year is large, varied and of eoot
quality 1t embraces work in al
mediums and all shapes of art. Mrs
Elizabeth Sprague of Fairmount col
lege, Wichita. is another out-of-towl
exhibitor. She has sent a small bu
varied collection of good work Els
pecially worthy of notice is war pos
| ter bearing a quotation from 9TH
Battle Hymn of the Republic" Thi
poster is small but of original design
Harry Gibson, a farmer boy of Ar
rington. Kan, who shows indication
OF much latent ability as a sculptor