Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-12-18

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If you have never made the aequain-
lance of Madame Nature in her varying
moods, you can get an introduction to
her through T. c. Steele's paintings,
which are on exhibition at the John
Heron Art Institute this month. The
Steele exhibition will be replaced by a
collection Of works by American artists.
some Of whom are OF international re-
pute- This display, which will open on
New Years day, marks the annual open.
Ing OF the institute and is considered
the most important exhibition Of the
year.
For the person who wishes to satiate
the craving to have just the opposite to
what now exists, there are a number Of
summer paintings in the collection. If
you have ever struggled down a dusty
road on seorching hot afternoon per.
haps you viii feel little warmer if you
draw chair up in front OF The Turn
Of the Road" and spend the afternoon
contemplating the sultriness represented
on the canvas. A fitting companion for
this is when Skies Are Blue" in which
Mr.. Steele shows a summer day when
there are no clouds in the sky and where
the intense blue hurts the eyes.
Or II you have ever spent an afternoon
strolling nstlessly along worn path in
the woods you can dream your time
away In front Of An August Afternoon. :"
Again, perhaps, you can call up the
minds inward images Of a happy sum
mers morning when you followed the
tiny winding stream with its sparkling
transparent water, wondering idly il it
flowed on forever" when you view the
artists conception of The Little Brook"
GLoRIES OF NATURE
IN SPRING TINE
There also are a number of canvasses
depicting the glories Of the moods Of
nature in the springtime. Although the
title 'Sprm gtime," does not have much
significance, to the person who has
climbed the slope Of the campus Of IN
diana University in the spring all the
magnificance OF that scene will be
brought back by this canvass.
And if you have ever neglected the
call Of duty on the first spring day, and
strplled down the road that stretched
Out~-miles and miles" enticing in its
intoxicating warmness, you can realize
just how the artist felt when he painted
"A Day in March" out beside a road in
Brown County. Those who have hunted
the myTiads Of gorgeous spring flowers
among the hills Of this same Brown
County, can never forget the picture Of
thousands OF shades Of brilliant colors
spreading over the sides of the hills as
far as the eye can see. and this is what
has been reproduced IN Beech Hillside
IN the Larry Spring" As a companion
to this is Spring Flowers" Then there
is a piece called "A Rainy Day in
Spring" Even to those uninitiated to the
rare beauties Of Brown County "A
Spring Morning in Hunnicutt Valley"
carries the meaning Of the sublime
grandness of natures message in the
springtime when you gaze across hills
upon the initial budding Of the trees and
flowers.
As was said Of the critic, those born
TO Judge and those to write" must de-
rive their light from Heaven, so every
so often in the span Of life Is a painter
horn who derives his light from Heaven.
in Late Afternoon In the Winter Il
would almost seem that the light thrown
across the snow has a holy brightness.
WINTER SCENES
NOT NEGLECTED.
If you have been longing for the win
ter SHOWS to come in time for Christ
mas perhaps you might be able to OBJ
tain some consolation from the interpre-
tations Of winter by Mr.. Steele. IN the
carly winter is the first frost which les
Ike silver upon the still green grass
and the brilliant tints OF autumn leaves
which work he calls "a Frosty Morn
ing" Then comes 1.-THE First Snow,
which you are both glad and sorry to
see, and which is followed by winter.
depicted by Mr.. Steele in "a Winter
Morning"
These first sharp days Of winter bring
longings for the glorious days Of autumn
which have just passed. These memo
res can be preserved by the pOrtrsyals
Of both early and late autumn. In Late
November" an Indian summer day is
Put on the canvass, one when the hay
atmosphere gives you q feeling Of super
ANIMATED spring fever. Then IAN Au-
tumn Morning In Crooked Greek Valley"
Is depletion Of the passions Of nature
IN her dying state, and in ACROSS tie
Ravine" is the antithesls when nature is
moOdy-a time when you gaze across
the gulley upon the gloomy, somber
foliage on the other hill, tinted from
deep purple to blacks.
There IS another little view showing
the plain in melancholy mood. This
has an opposite which depicts a road
flanked by the joys OF spring, the iris
flower The Iris Road is made narrow
by the flowers Of lavender, deep purple.
yellow, pink and white.
Indeed, whatever depletion Of the fan
ciful changes Of nature you may be sur
TO find it down in the original colors
somewhere among those forty-fOur paint
iIgs which Mr.. Steel ha= on display.