The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-24
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/ The place held in the modern world
of art by Burger Sandzen, noted
Swedish American artist, and most
/ loyal citizen of Kansas is abundantly
exemplified by an article recently
| published in a leading New York
paper The article is quoted below:
! Comparing the work of Burger
/ Sandzen. the Kansas painter, with that
/ of the late Anders Zorn, the great
Swedish portrait painter. Elizabeth
Luther Cary gives Zorn supreme place
in the field of etching, but declares
that Sandzen is the greater color.st OF
! the two
/ Discussing a recent New York exhi-
bition Of work by American painters
of Swedish descent, in the American
! Scandinavian Review, Miss Cary says,
IF Mr. SandZen is like anyone, he is
like Zorn. but Zorn-mighty eagle that
he is in the field of etching-iS not so
bold a weaver of pigment as Mr.. Sand
zen, and not so authoritative in color.
She goes on: Mr.. SandZen S mighty
brush strokes build up the imposing
scenery of Colorado with an extra
ordinary certainty of architecture.
Planes and textures emerge as II by
magic from this whirling dance of
coIored earths torn from the tubes and
thrown against the canvas. In the
lithographs and woodcuts, more clear
" than in the paintings, we see how
the forms are modelled by the dlrec-
ton of the strokes made by the tool
Mss Cary, widely known as an art
critic and for her books on Whistler
and the Rosettis. does not find in the
fact that Sandzen was a pupil of Zorn
sufficient reason to account for the
similarity between them. 1t is true,
she says that Zorn must have been
stimulating master to pupil of simi-
lar temperament, but she contends
that influence alone is powerless, as
may be seen by comparing the work
of Sandzen with another of his teach
ers Aman-Jean of Paris, and with his
compatriot, Arvid Nyholm, neither of
whom left any trace upon his style
| Mr. Nyholm's surfaces are smooth and
| thin where Mr. Sandzen'S are rug
Gus" and thick. His subjects are so
phisticated. and he looks upon them
with sophisticated eyes, while Mr.
| Sandzen glories in stripping his sub
| ject to its primitive elements"
The writer had his first opportunity
hSunday afternoon to carefully inspect
the collection of etchings now on ex-
hibition at Washburn college Taken
as a whole they form a most attrac-
| tive and charming group of works in
| black and white. None of the pictures
are of large size, just such pictures as
| would look well on the walls of the
| average size living room or parlor
Most of them are landscapes or de
lineation of picturesque buildings in
Europe and America. There is. how
ever. one actual portrait, President
Harding by Pierre Nyttens.
A tiny little sketch by Ralph Pear
SON. of the old log cabin in which
| Abraham Lincoln was born, an artistic
and truthful drawing of La Sainte
| ChapeIle" Gold chapel of the French
| kings lat Paris by Henry B. Shope,
and a picture called Winter Sun
| shine by z. L. Lauer, of brook
| running swiftly between snow covered
| banks which are dotted with patches
of sunshine coming down between the
| branches of the trees, seem to be the
| favorites of a group of competent
critics who were present at the time.
is also an exceedingly well handled
| and interesting drawing of an old ana
picturesque building.
It is not the writer's intention TO
| show undue partially for. or to adver-
tise any one publication. but when
| especially interesting and instructive
] articles appear from time to time in
! one particular paper or magazine. he
| lies attention to such articles. either
quoting with due credit. or else nam
| ing the publication in which the
| articles appeared
The whole Art News and Com
ment' page of the Christian Science
Monitor for Monday. December IL.
1921. is especially worth reading for
all persons interested in art There
is good article on the mural decora-
tions in the Library of Congress at
Washington, D. c, accompanied with