Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-26
ADVANCE SALE OF TICKETS FOR
THE INAUGURAL BALL IS LARGE;
fine MUSIC TO Be A Feature
Santa Fe Stores Are Exhibiting the Lates.
Eastern Styles in Gowns; Many Women
Have Placed Special Orders; Arrangements
for Ceremonies Are Completed.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS TO MORNING JoURNAI)

and the glow of the sun gilds
adobe walls with warm yellows
and reds while the cool purple
shadows hug mother earth. The
Pueblo squaw in her simple but
colorful costume is about to place
the loaves of bread into the oven
and the squaw in the middle
ground is carrying a tinaja on her
head just as her ancestors had
done from time immemoriaL The
quaint architecture Is truly Ameri-
can just as are the religion, the
music, the myths, the drama. the
art, the poetry and the dances of
the Pueblos, in contradistinction to
the religion. music, legends. drama.
art, poetry and dances of the pale
faces in the United States which,
after all. had their inception in
the old world. Mr.. Rollins, who
has his studio on Washington ave-
nue. in Santa Fe, is foremost among
the painters of Zuni life. Other
fine examples of his art have been
acquired by the Museum of New
Mexico. Beautiful mural paintings
of New Mexico life and history
from his brush are to be found at
the Bishops lodge and in the home
of Col. George w. Pichard, while
still other examples of his art are
permanently on exhibit in the
principal art centers of this coun-
try. I'm the Thrall of the Past"
which has its first exhibit this
week, will later go to New York,
Chicago and other large cities of
the east for exhibit unless some art
lover should purchase this rare
gem from the brush OF Mr.. Roll
Inns before it leaves Santa Fe."
Compadres.
One of the new paintings In the
museum much admired by the
passing public, at least, that por-
ton of which is discriminating is
canvass by B. j. o. Nordfelt
which seems like segment of New
Mexico life in motion. Someone
has entitled 1t "Compadres." 1t
shows a man and his wife seated,
side by side, under the canvas top
of wagon as they drive along the
rugged highway over the hilly
country symbolized by the barren
mountains in the background. 1t
is in what 1t suggests, rather than
in what it depicts, in which lies
the power of the painting. One
sees no more of the prairie schoon-
err than the canvas top over the
seat, but the artist has succeeded
admirably in conveying the idea
of slow. steady motion, and the
picture is therefore a typical exam
pie of the modern art which seeks
to escape the idea that painting
must be static, that it must sub
ordinate everything to one point
at which all lines converge. The
picture is in the characteristic COL
ors of Mr.. Nordfelt's work, which,
by the way, is being acclaimed just
now in the New York press as the
most virile of the Taos group, al
though Mr.. Nordfelt has his studio
and residence on Canyon road here
, in Santa Fe.
America in Literature.
Mary Austin in the recent num-
Der of 1.-The Literary Review, takes
page to tell of america in Lit
erature" in which she asserts that
the problem of the American nov
elist is much more complicated
than that of his English brethren.
In conclusion she says:
This is to be emphasized be-
cause of very curious coincidence.
In aboriginal American fiction-l
mean in fiction produced by the
first Americans who had subjected
themselves for 10000 years or so
to the American environment-the
preferred story pattern has the ac-
quirement of spiritual power for
its own point of balance. Around
such desiteratum the incidents of
war and love and exploration are
distributed. This appears to be
the only prize left in q society
which thoroughly democratized,
has discovered that neither goods
nor power can be sought for the
souls sake. 1t is possible some
such discovery on the part Of the
American people will give us the
unitary pattern which in fiction is
to take the place of broken moulds
of autocracy; goods that we may
get power, and power that we may
control goods. In the meantime,
whoever devotes himself seriously
to novel making in the United
States must be prepared to find this
work all In the nature of an ex-
pertinent, successful only in the
degree that it leads to ultimate dis
covery."
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