The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-19

The Topeka Art Guild has an I'M
usually fine program arranged for the
winter and early spring. This pro-
gram includes four or perhaps five
art exhibitions, most of them to be
free to the general public.
Next month there will be an ex-
! hibltlon of prints and etchings by lead
| ing American artists at Boswell hall,
Washburn college. Early in January
| there will be an exhibition at the city
auditorium of the superb paintings of
| American industrial life by Gerritt A
| Beneker, of Cl9veland. Ohio IT. is
| expected that this exhibit will surpass
| anything in the line of art ever
! brought to Topeka. Beneker is the
and his work. His mission is to paint
| according to the best canons of art.
| that which the workingman knows all
| about and can and will appreciate. In
| the greatest periods of the history of
| the worlds art the great masters
painted for the passes and not for the
| highbrows and Beneker aims to fol-
| low their example.
/ Later in the season there will be
an exhibition of paintings of the In
! dian life of the southwest, done by
! artists of the celebrated Taos art col
| ony of Taos, n. M. Also an exhibit
| ton of the work of William Windt of
| the Laguna Beach Art colony, La
| guna Beach, Cal. Mrs. W. B. Thayer,
| OF Lawrence. Kan, has returned from
| Provincetown, Mass, where she has
/ been making a collection of paintings
| by members of the colony of noted
artists located at that famous old Cape
! Cod town. These paintings may also
be exhibited in Topeka in the near
future.
The writer of this column had the
great privilege the other day of look
| ing over hand made catalogue got
| ten out by Maynard Walker, of To-
peka- 1t shows sample designs for
original Christmas cards and holiday
souvenirs which this young artist Of
fers to get up for the Topeka public.
The designs embrace pen and ink
drawings, crSyon sketches, water col
ors, and illuminated designs in color
and gold. All of them are works of
great beauty and some of them are
positive gems. Walker is a young man
imbued with a deeply poetic and ar
tistic temperament, and great things
may be expected of him in the near
future.
1.-THE worlds most beautiful pic
ture," Thomas Gainsborough's Blue
Boy" which a few weeks ago was sold
by the Duke of Westminster OF Duveen
brothers. noted London art collectors
Ii and dealers for 49, 900 pounds, has
been purchased from the latter by
Henry E. Huntington of New York
and Los Angeles.
The recent sale of "Blue Boy and
other noted and valuable paintings
owned in England was due to the ex-
ceedingly high rate of taxation on art
treasures, instituted during the war.
blue Boy was the most cherished
heirloom of the Grosvenor family
(family name of the Duke og~West-
minster) and hung in the art gallery
or
many years. 1t is a picture that
travellers visiting England always
made a great effort to see.
Huntington, owns four other famous
Gainsboroughs: They are portraits OF
Lady Petre, Viscount and -Viscountess
Ligonier, and Anne Luttrell, Duchess
of Cumberland. All are large can
vases.
According to an article in recent
edition of the Decatur Herald ODE
cat1r, I'D Johannes Schumacher, an
art teacher of that city, is in posses
sion of genuine Corregg1o which he
values at S10O,0 900, and expects to sell
in New York for that amount.
Schumacher, so the story goes, was
teaching art some years ago at an
Ursuline convent in an Ohio town,
and while there, a woman named
Lutes, living in the town, came to con-
suit him about the value OF small
painting that ndQ USSH given ~ ACA
grandparents by poor stranger whom
they had befrfended.
The stranger had no money, and in
lieu thereof presented them with the
painting, stating that it was OF great
value.
Schumacher, who has studied a
great deal in the galleries at Parma, ]
italy, where are located some of the
best examples of Corregg1o's work, at
once recognized the work of that great
-s--&s - CHI ~
Miss Lutes and he soon got it into his
possession.
The subject of the picture is 1.-THE
Last Communion of st. Mary"
Schumacher knew that Correggio had
made a small painting of that sub
ject, while working in the convent of
the Bened4ctine nuns at~Parma, that
the finished picture was later taken
to Spain, and that many years after 1t
disappeared during the burning of the
monastery in which it was housed
Thru an extended and careful cor
respondence with converts and mon
astaries in Italy, Schumacher alleges
that he has absolutely identified the
painting in his possession as the lost
Correggio.
the picture was destroyed by the fire
that burned up the monastery, but |
later it was discovered that it was
rescued from the flames by man
present at the time, and that he car
ried it to Mexico and later to the
United States This man is supposed
to be this person who gave it to Miss
Lutes's grandparents.
Correggio is said to have made
number of drawings and paintings Ill
miniature which were la&er to be re-
produced in large sizes on the walls of
the Benedictine convent at Parma. |
1.-THE Last Communion. of St. Mary
was one of the paintings made with
that object in view. but it was never
reproduced on the convent wall.
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