The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-01
BY STATE ARTISTS
Second Annual Exhibit Best
Ever Held in Topeka.
1t Will Be Sent Out Over Kan
sas This Winter.
MANY LOCAL PICTURES SEEN
Practically All Schools of Art
and Work Mediums.
Revelations of Advanced Stage
of Fine Arts in Kansas.
MANY LOCAL PICTURES SEEN
BY CARL P. BoLMAR.

The second annual exhibition of the
works of Kansas artists, now being
held at Grace Cathedral Guild hall,
under the auspices of the Topeka Art
Guild, comprises the best and most
interesting group of works in many
mediums, ever held in Topeka.
There are about eighty pictures and
objects of art in the exhibition sent
in by artists and craftsmen from
many parts of eastern and central
Kansas. Anyone visiting the exhibit
will certainly have an agreeable rev.
eIation as to the advanced stage Of
fine arts in this state
Practically all schools of art and
mediums of work are represented,
realism, impressionism, post impress
sionism, oil. water color. pastel, char
coal, pencil, wood cuts, hthography,
sculpture, and the potter's art,
The large room on the second floor
OF Grace Cathedral Guild Hall, has
been appropriately fitted up for the
occasion. at no little expense of time
and money, on the part of the mem
bers of the Topeka Art Guild, and an
extensive decoration of autumn leaves
adds a very pleasing touch to the sur
roundings.
Among the Exhibitors.
Among the exhibitors are: George
NJ. Stone, Topeka; Berger Sandzen and
Anna Keener Lindsborg; Fern l. Cop
pedge of Topeka. but now in Phlla-
delphia; William A.7Griffith, William
NJ. Hekking. John H. Frazier, and
Maria A. Benson, Lawrence; Eliza
beth Sprague,- C. A Seward, and E. L.
Dawson, Wichita; Anna Francis. Col
ony; Pauline Haynes Shirer, formerly
of Topeka, now of New York; ROBERT
Merren Gage and Marian MorroW
in Kansas City, Mo; Georgianna Was
son Bloom. Hutchinson; L. A Gillette,
Helen f. Hodge, Katherine Lindsey
Perkins. Marian Peers. J. W. Lock
wood, Lydia Barnes, Maynard Walker
Margaret Whittemore and Carl. r.
Bolmar, all of Topeka.
George M Stone exhibits two
marine oils Dutch Fishing Boats"
and French Market Boats. These
pictures both display the artists V1Vlq
app1 eciation of the beauties OF air,
sky, and water, together with his fine
composition and his finished tech
niGue.
Berger Sandzen, in addition to sew
eral landscapes in oil in his best style,
exhibits some wood cuts, and several
Iithoerapfs of. charcoal and. crayon
drawings Perhaps the most attrac-
tive of the latter, are Horses IN
HiIly Pasture" and "River Motif.
Besides its beauty Mr. Sandzen's has
a freshness andsa decided, strong orig
inaIity which with its other merits,
would win for it favorable notice in
almost any exhibition5 no matter how
large, or how full of the works of
great men and women
Marines by Coppedge.
Fern 1. Coppedge has contributed
three marines. After Glow THE
Summer Fleet" and Gray Day" All
of these charming pictures are full
of rich attractive colors. They show
a greater attention to detail than most
of US are accustomed to see in the
works of Mrs Coppedge
Three fire water colors by Frances
Lindsay, Evening" Riverside" and
Night" are already familiar to To-
pei1ans. They prove that Miss Lind
say is a poetess of high order. as well
as an artist. Miss Lindsay also ex-
hibits two posters in water color. One
os them, an advertisement for a flower
show. has remarkable charm and
beauty.
Mrs. Pauline Haynes Shirer's co1lec-
tton of beautiful and original designs
for the ornamentation of silks, wall
paper and curtains, together with
some attractive sketches and posters
was exhibited at the recent Topeka
state fair. and is already familiar to
most Topeka people.
Marian Peers exhibits five small
landscapes in pastel, Miss Peers's s
interesting style of work is familiar
to most of us thru previous exhibit
tfons. Her work shown this time is
quite up to her usual high standard.
Miss Peers has a happy faculty of see
ing the great things of nature. such
as the heaye and swell of the ocean,
the shadowy depths of mountain val
leys, and the rugged grandeur of
storm-beaten pine trees.
Among d number of good out of
door pictures shown by Mrs. Helen F.
Hodge are two attractive marines.
Gray Day" and Big Splash" They
were painted last summer, while the
artist was travelling on the Atlantic
coast They show the waves breaking
on a rocky shore.
L. A. Gillette exhibits several very
good oils of Rocky Mountain scenery,
most of thenB painted while he was
summering in Estes Park this year.
From Out of Town.
Among the most beautiful pictures
of the whole collection are three little
mountain scenes in oil. by Elizabeth
Sprague, of Wichita The pigment is
exceedingly well handled and local
color, sunlight, shadows, and atmos-
phere are well and truly portrayed.
L. L. Dawson, also of Wichita. has
contributed two striking portrait