The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-20
CINCINNATI ARTISTS WILL PRESENT WORK
AT FIRST FALL EXHIBITION IN RICHMOND

The schedule of exhibits for the
season of 1s21-1922 in the Public Art
gallery was announced Tuesday by
Mrs. Melville F. Johnston, director Of
exhibits. Ten exhibitions will be
given this winter, according to the
announcement.
The first exhibit will open Sunday.
Oct 2, when four very we'll known
artists, all of whom are connected
with the Cincinnati Museum of Fine
Arts, will be represented by a col
lection of As pictures.
The artists will be James R. Hop
kins, John E. Weiss, Randolph l..
Coats and H. H. Vessel. Mr. Vessel,
Mr. Coats and Mr.. Weiss will be pres
ent Sunday, Oct 2, when the exhibit
ton is opened to the public Mr..
Hopkins, who is spending some time
in Paris. will not be present.
Former Resident Here
Besides being instructors of art in
the Cincinnati museum, each of the
exhibitors is an artist of note. Mr..
Coats, who was formerly a resident
of this city, was awarded the Mary
T. R. Foulke prize at the Public Art
gallery in 1921 for a nude which now
hangs in the south gallery.
The prize won by Mr.. Coats is the
highest distinction which the local
gallery bestows on an artist
Mr.. Coats works almost exclusively
with oils and confines his work tc
landscape and figure painting. He
will send Is pictures for the exhibit
| Mr.. Weiss, another of the four ex
hibitors, and who will have II paint
ings in the exhibit, was considered
along with Mr.. Coats for the Foulke
prize last year, the picture considered
! being a street scene in a New Eng
| land village.
| H. H. Vessel was represented last
! year at one of the exhibits. He will
send IL pictures. Mr.. Hopkins, who
| is said to be one of the finest paint
ers in this country, has visited here
and at one time served as a judge al
/ an exhibit in the local gallery. His
| collection for the exhibit will number
! eight pictures. The collection of pic
lures by the four Cincinnati artists
will hang from Oct. to Oct. "a.
Richmond Artists to Show
| The exhibit of paintings by Rich
mond painters, which will be one OF
paramount interest to many persons
| is to be held from No. to Nov. %
! A collection of Red Cross prints an6
etchings is to be held some time il
| October or December, the date as yet
| being indefinite.
FouIke Collection Shown
An outstanding feature of the year:
/ ayhihjfc tn ho Of &
! and reproductions in color of thu
! Dec l to Dec Is The collection viii
be lent by William Dudley Foulke
president of the Richmond Art asso
citation. Mr.. Foulke's collection o
pictures are exceptionally rare ant
beautiful, and many of them hav,
been painted by hand to reproduce thu
original colors more accurately.
Mr. Foulke has spent a number o
years making the collection whil'
travelling and residing abroad. In con
nection with the exhibit Mr. Foulk
will give a gallery talk on the pictures
The annual exhibit of paintings b.
Indiana artists will be the opening ex
hibit for 1922. 1t will be held from
January Is to February 1.
The Arts and Crafts exhibit will b.
held February 8 to February 26.
New York Artists to Come.
Henry Salem Hubbell and othe
eminent New York artists are to b.
represented in an exhibit from Marc
1 to March Is.
March 10 to April 2 has been Sc
aside as the date for an exhibit o
paintings by junior artists, for whic
the Junior Art association will b
auspices. The first exhibit by JUNO
artists was held last spring shortl