The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-05


Womans National Art association of
Laguna Beach, Cal. There will also
be several landscapes which Mrs.
Hodge painted in the Ozarks last sum-
mer, and some which she painted this
year in the vicinity of Topeka.
The American Federation of Arts
magazine for November contains an
interesting article on the West Coast
Arts Incorporated, a society of woman
artists of the far and middle west,
with headquarters at Laguna Beach,
Calf. Until recently the organiza-
tion's maine was the Woman's Nation
al Art association.
This organization has for its aims
not only the encoura gement of the
talents of its members but the building
up of a healthy, vigorous art atmos-
phere in the west. The work of the
West Coast Arts Incorporated is at
tracing much favorable comment all
over America.
A brilliantly successful exhibition of
the work of its members was recently
held at the celebrated Tanburg gall
lerieS at Laguna Beach. Mrs. L. c.
Hodge of Topeka, who is a member of
the organization, had three pictures
in this exhibition.
Early this year the Hambden Glazed
Paper and Card company of Holyoke,
Mass, instituted a prize contest for
the best design in color executed on
paper of the firms manufacture. The
prizes offered were $1,000, 5000 and
$100. The faculty of the National In
stitute of Graphic Arts, New York
/ City, was the judge.
! Three thousand five hundred de-
signs were submitted. Two hundred
fifty of these received either prizes
or honorable mention. Among the
! contestants that received honorable
mention was J. w. FazeL a Topeka
artist, and art director of the Capper
| Engraving company. Fazel is in re-
ceipt of a letter from the Hambden
| company asking permission to retain
I his drawing for inclusion in an exhi-
! bition shortly to be held in New York
City.
| The designs submitted in the Eamb-
! den company competition came from
| the United States and Undergraduates,
/ from England Scotland, Canada,
/ Newfoundland, France and Mexico.
| Many designers of known ability en-
| tered the competition. So it was no
small honor to Mr.. Fazel to receive
/ honorable mention.
! Another name included In the hon
| orable mention list was that of Pres
! ton p. F'lenniken of st. Paul. MINI.
Mr.. Flenniken formerly lived in To-
peka and is a son of the late B. f.
] Flenniken.
| Photography continues slowly but
! surely to win for itself a place in the
world of art. OF course no photo
| graph can ever have that undefinable
| something that a genius puts into a
! drawing or painting where the hands
which draw the lines and model the
! forms are directed by a poetic fancy
| rapher with true artistic feeling, a
| sense of values, a knowledge of COM
| position and a love for the play of
| light and shadow, can produce a Won
| derfully beautiful picture
If We clearly keep in mind that a
painting is a painting and a photo
| graph is a photograph and do not look
! for qualities in one thatN in all reason
| belong only to the other, we can ad-
| mire and enjoy art photography. When
We view the work of talented painter
| and also that Of a talented wood
| carver we never think of disparaging
| the latter because it does not possess
| the same qualities that we Ike in the
/ painting, do we2
/ Exhibitions of art photography are
becoming more and more frequent and
| are attracting a greater and greater
amount of attention from art critics
and the art lovirg public.
/ Critics who have reviewed the
sfxty-sixth annual exhibition of the
Royal Photographic society of Great
| Britain and this years exhibition the
London Salon of Photography, both
| just ended. are astonished at the ex-
| cellence and beauty of the work
| shown. These critics say that they
much prefer portrait and landscape
photographs. like those exhibited. to
paintings of inferior or mediocre
merit.
| Topeka has several photographers
| who are entitled to be called artists,
| and the writer of this column again
| expresses the hope that these may
be induced to give the public an ex-
hibition of their work some time in the
near future