Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-03-13

E4A-bONtTnOf helDttl ID IldEtI
man has favored the Museum with
the loan of three priceless etchings
-Rembrandts "Ecce Homo" q
powerful delineation of character
in portraiture, and the other two
lovely landscapes by Seymour
Haden; one a scene on the Thames
and the other a charming sketch
of woodland and river in rural
England. The pictures have been
hung in a good light and as peo-
pie discover them give new delight
each day.
r. Martin Henning, the Chicago
artist, has returned for the summer
after n years absence. He will
spend the greater part of the year
in Taos, although for the present
he is a guest in Santa Fe.
O.
Tuesday evening the Santa Fe
Art club will entertain at Bishops
Lodge at dinner. 1t will be the
first social occasion under the au-
spices of the new organization
which meets every Tuesday eve
ming in its rooms in the Griffin
block.
Carl Sandburg, noted noet and
one of the leaders among the
younger poets of the country,
whose rugged verse is finding more
and more favor, who is now at the
Grand Canyon, will be a visitor in
Santa Fe, it is expected. the latter
part of March, and will probably
give a lecture or readings in the
new Museum. This makes the fol-
lowing of special interest:
Henderson's Pastels and the Poet.
Says the art critic of the Chicago
Evening Post of the Henderson
exhibit at the Roullier galleries:
"Mr. Sandburg has written the
foreward to the catalogue from the
Overlooking enthusiasm of his ap-
probation of these lovely little pic
lures, which, like the jewel-weed
and some other mysterious crea-
tons of a divine origin, become
more and more beautiful and Won
derful as the acquaintance with
them increases"
Writes the poet: at is my guess
that most anybody would enjoy the
pastels of New Mexican subjects
done by william Penhallow Hen
derson, even if they had never
heard Mr.. Henderson talk about
his years on years spent among
the Indians, mountains, houses
and sparse trees shown in the pic
lures.
at is another guess of mine that
Henderson did these pastels be-
cause the spirit of the inevitable
sat on him. That is, he had to do
'em.
He spent his best years mixing
with the material here dealt with
and was spiritually mortgaged to
the still and living objects. the
forms and gestures, colors and
shadows, Pickering their sugges-
lions back of these projections. He
pays them for what they gave him
by a setting forth of fine human
and cosmic implications that rise
behind and out of the portrayed
Indians, mountains, houses, sparse
trees-and sometimes thin momen-
tous blossoms brief dessert
breaths of whispered blossoms
The Squash and Turquois
Dance'-isn't that haunting title?
The 'Snowbird Dance, the Buffalo
Dance the Eagle Dance the
Spring Dance'-aren't they all
haunting? If you had lived years
among the Navajo, the Taos and
Keresan tribes, and they had given
your life these dance figures and
tints, and it was an ancient per-
fected thing that fathers and moth
ers of thousand years had bred
their feet to do till thought and
feeling could go no farther in re-
auctions to simple and telling
action--wouldn't you say this
might be a time and place where
the emotion of surprise would
hardly touch us as we looked on?
Yes, the inevitable is over this
work.
Look 'em over. Take a second
and third look. The more looks
the further these sink in and null
tiply their human pull. Go to it.
If they pass along to you as many
memorable impressions as some of
us get. then congratulations
much luck, amigo.
"They will last a long time.
Barring fire and quake and the UNI
foreseen, they will ,outlast the
Woolworth and Wrigley buildings;
they will be telling their haunting
tale of vanished lovers of marvel
GUS dances when our tallest bank
buildings and our longest rail-
roads are shrunken possessions of
rust and dust. III thank you. -
And so, much luck. amigo.
CARL SANDBURG."
'Mr. Henderson has lived in
New Mexico a number of years