The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-28
MAGAZINE PRAISES
WORK OF LEIGH FOR
ART ACHIEVEMENTS

Howard Leigh. formerly of this place
and now of New York City, who has
won distinguished place for hlInseH
by his notable achievements in arr, Is
given a generous squib in recognition
Of his work in the December issue OF
Vanity Fair" The squib, which Is
from the pen of Peyton Boswell, is
contained in the World OF Ar ,
section.
Mr.. Leigh has just been holding an
exhibition of etchings, dry-points ana
Autographs at the Anderson galleries
in New York The same exhibit, it IS
expected, will be shown in the Pubhc
Art gallery here some time in January
Word comes" says the article in
Vanity Fair" that Howard Leigh,
Americas youngest recognized etcher,
is going back to medical school he
started out to be a doctor before he
undertook to be an artist; when he
took up the BURN he let fall the seal
pei But his rematriculation does not
mean that Mr.. Leigh is going 10 desert
art, in which he has made phenom-
email success. At school his interest
will be solely N anatomy. He wants
to know what lies underneath the sur
face of the human body.
Has Ambitions
From this it can be inferred that
Mr. Leigh has ambitions more ambi-
tious than the architectural subjects
which last season, won him fame at
a single exhibition. There was an
I, - - &c O.
ond annual exhibition, recently held
At the Anderson galleries, Study -
Three Nudes, is a delightful bit, and so
is a dry point, The Fan, behind
which peeps part of the cOuntenance
of Hilda Spong. This leads us to a
delightful issue for-on his invitations
Mr.. Leigh printed a little reproduc-
ton of The Fan" and under it the
following testimonial from Miss Spong
"All my life and all over the world
have been painted and photographed.
I consider this my best portrait"
Nothing below the bridge of Miss
Spongs nose appears in the print, so
one can see he magnitude of the
etcher's achiey ement 1t is very good,
and one need not have any qualms if
an irrepressible little laugh is aroused
by the actresses Testimonial"
There were two superlative new
Autographs in Mr.. Leigh's show, both
revealing different sides of the new
Hardness Tower at Yale. The scat
folding had hardly been torn away be-
fore the artist was on the job with
his pencil. His Interpretation leads US
TO know that in the Hardness Tower
The designer, James Gamble Rogers
has given America a piece of archi-
lecture Of exceeding beauty and
originality"
Studied in France
Mr.. Leigh following his graduation
from Earlham college entered the Har-
ward university medical school. Civ
ing up temporarily his medical career
he went to France and spent year
studying art. Up to this time, while
he had done some notable work in
art, Mr. Leigh had been almost en-
tirely self-tau2ht, While abroad he
made a collection of Autographs in
France which were a sensation there
and groups Of them were bought by
the French ministry for permanent gal
leries in France. Last winter upon
the artists return from abroad. the
exhibition was shown in New York,
where it was described as the sensa-
zion of the art season" During the
Christmas holidays the exhibition was
hung in the Public Art gallery here.
At the opening of a second very sue
cessful season in New York, marked
by an exhibition in the Anderson gal
leries last month, word comes that
Mr.. Leigh is going back to his medi-
cal work, but at the same time will
continue his art work,