The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1921-07-19
MISS UPJOHN'S
NEAR EAST
DRAWINGS
Exhibit at the Athenaeum
Wednesday for the Red
Cross Auspices


lean Red Cross there will be placed
on exhibit at the st. Johnsbury
Athenaeum on Wednesday a most
interesting collection of drawings
by Anna Milo Upjohn of child hfe
in Albania, Czeehoslovakia, Serbia
Roumania, Greece, Montenegro
Italy and France. Miss Upjohr
was sent to Europe to make these
drawings by the junior department
of the American Red Cross, with
the purpose Of awakening interest
in this country in the welfare 'ot
children abroad, and more espec-
tally in the countries which suffer
ed most in the war.
She has performed her difficult
mission admirably, interpreting the
children of other lands with sym
pathy and artistic skill. She ha,
presented not only the pathetic
but the humorous, and has in many
instances given her sketches tn
homely touch which makes fol
universal appeal. There are rev
so sinful or so hardened as to
fail to respond to childhood's win
some smile. The attitude of thc
child confidently counting upol
friendliness brings its own reward
such confidence cannot be disap-
pointed. In any group Of people
the entrance of a baby is always
marked bv a ouickening Of interest.
Sad indeed, would be the world il
this were not the case. 1t is tc
this fundamental human inclina-
ton that Miss Upjohn's drawings
make their address.
Miss UPjohn's drawings arc
modest performances as compared
with the works OF these great ar,
fists, but they do not claim to be
more than sketches and they mere
ly attempt to suggest the condi-
tons of child life abroad in oruel
to establish more firmly com.
mon relationship.
Miss Upjohn's drawings are
in Europe is the result of man.
years of residence abroad, during
which time she studied arr in Eng
land, France, Holland, Germany,
Spain, Portugal, Austria, Russia
and Sweden. She was abroad ii
1914, at the time of the outbl, DIX
Of the war, and went at once to
France, where he volunteered fol
relief work among the refugee.
under the fund for devastated vii
lagos. She was engaged in thu.
routine in the war zone when the
American Red Cross established it,
European commission in Paris. I'm
mediately there developed a neec
for an artist and illustrator te
further the Red Cross rehabilita-
ton and health program, and al
appeal was made 10 Miss Upjohr
to devote her talents as an artist
to this end. She acquiesced, al
THOUGH insisting that she regarded
sketching and painting as a pleas
ure and felt that the war calleo
for a more direct and persona
service.
Reviewing this exhibit when
was exhibited in Boston last montl
the Boston Herald said,
"The drawings were made, some
times with charcoal. sometimes
with colored crayon. The best, as
so often happens, are those pro
duced with most evident haste and
spontaneitY. Here and there one
notes a little of that elaboration
that takes the crisp edge off. Ir
general, however. the childish
forms are drawn with a taut. ner-
vous line and with brisk indication
of planes and attachments.
"As studies in costume these
pieces are of great interest. They
make one regret that commercial
lzation of clothing is REDUCING the
world TO dead monotonv of fash
ion. Sometime of the sentiment O
clothes is implicit in such worf
as "The Scarf Maknr", Czecho-
S]ovak girl who works over the
colored scarf which should she h,
married, she will wear over her
shoulder Should she never b.
il VII he buried with he
or he dedicated to tho ramsl
church as an altar cloth. When }
baby is born. it will be wrappcf
in his scarf for baptism"
The exhibit will be placed ir
the Athenaeum July 20 and last