The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-10-11
ESTHER GRIFFIN White
GIVES ART COLLECTION
TO EARLHAM COLLEGE

Esther Griffin White has announced
that she will present her valuable art
collection to Earlham college at some
future date. Miss White states that
she wishes to make further additions
to the collection, which now includes
about 200 pictures and several hun
dred bookplates, before turning it
over to the college.
Miss White is a former Earlham
student. Her father, Oliver White,
Seft the college fine geological col
lection and her sister, Mrs. Herbert
c. Emery, presented the college with
several books on Japanese art.
Valuable Collection
Those who have seen the collection
declare it to be one of exceptional in
terest and value. 1t is of special in
terest to Ea rlham and Richmond and
community because over half the pic
lures are the work Of three local
artists, J. E. Bundy, George H. Baker
and Charles Conner.
Ten canvaSeS are the work Of Mr.
Bundy, who was given the degree Of
Master of Arts last year at Earlham
One of these is the painting which he
exhibited at the international exposi-
ton at st. Louis.
George H. Baker is represented in
the collection by 40 oil paintings and
$50 watercolors and pastels. Mr..
Baker is becoming more widely known
and Is said to be unsurpassed as a
landscapist. Other Indiana artists
whose paintings are in Miss Whites
collection are Otis X. Adams, For
sythe. Steele, Maude Kaufman Egge-
meyer, Eyden, ST.. Nordyke, Anna
Newman, Julia Graydon, Marcus
Mote, Howard Mccormick and Ed
Forkner.
Etchings Included.
Etchings by Pencil and Otto
Schneider, Japanese prints, wood
block prints from American artists,
tand two oil paintings by Leon Dabo,
an American artist, are included in the
collection. Among the examples of
pottery are lockwood, Satsuma, Royal
Copenhagen, Closisenne and New
comb. American, English, German,
Italian, Russian, Portuguese and Aus
TRAN bookplates are included in the
bookplate collection.
Miss White in a statement in the
Earlham Press, telling why she is 60
ing to give her collection to Earlham
says:
VIC nave ldu ihdhy pei SoAio III
Wayne county tagged and docketed as
artists who were cOpyists, daubsters,
fakirs.
But only three geniuses of the first
rank E. Bundy, now International
ly known and whose work is included
in many museums and private collec-
tons; Charles Conner, who was on the
threshold of fame when he passed
away; and George H. Baker, who IS
rapidly becoming known as one of the
finest of the resident Indiana painters.
II regard Mr.. Baker as one of the
greatest landscapists this country has
ever produced. His genius is pure and
unalloyed His art ideals are of the
most exalted l have a large collec-
ton of his pictures, in varying media,
oil, water-color, pastel, black and
white.
IAN art collection IS frequently valu-
able because of the number of repre-
sentative works from one artist in
Guided and this can usually be
accomplished the best by getting the
pictures of the artist direct. Then
you know what you get is genuine.
Instead of waiting until he is dead
or his fame makes his pictures i'm
possible to the collector of average
} income. . 49,, 49,, ,.,oo. rro
pean collections are collections OF the
local artists of their period.
"The Old Masters were the Bundys
and Connors and Bakers of their
day.
when we want to see the greatest
Rembrandts, where do we go?
"To the country of his nativity.
"When we want to see the greatest
collections of Michael Angeles, we go
to Rome.
ARTISTS of genius are often reduced
to producing pot-boilers because the
snobbish art collectors are buying
mediocre pictures by artists who live
far away instead of getting master
pieces at their own door.
when people in the future want to
see the most representative collection
OF Bundys, Connors, and Bakers they
will 60 to Eerlham to see it,.