The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-04-07
WGGtNS'IS CHOSEN
10 SHOW PICTURES
!, IN 0NE-MAN EXHIBIT


~ Guy Virgins. celebrated New York
artist, has been designated by the
Richmond Art association for the sea,
sons one-man exhibit in the Public
Art gallery, which is expected to open
next Sunday afternoon. Mr.. Virgins
has been represented here IN past ex'
Eibits but never before in a one-man
exhibit. The pictures, II IN all, which
he is sending for the exhibit, were for
warded his week from Des Moines. Ia,
where they have been on exhibition
Virgins is the son Of Carleton Wig
gins, prominent as a painter OF ami
mails One of his pictures was bought
by Daniel G. Reid and presented to
Warner school in memory Of his little
hoy. who was going to school there
when he died.
Born in 1888, Guy Virgins, at 80
has gained an enviable reputation de-
spite the fact that he is as yet COM
baratisely young artist. A one-man
exhibit by him recently held at the
Mich galleries in New York City, was
regarded one of the most successful
Aeld by any artist there this season,
II pictures OF the 20 exhibited, having
been sold 90
Made Rapid Progress
The artist attracted considerable at
tention and made his first reputation
in his pictures of New York street
scenes. Since then he has rapidly
scaled the ladder to a conspicuous
place among modern painters. Espe-
cially is he noted for the subtlety he
has achieved in his perturbation of
sncw scene So .Modulations OF grays
and whites composed in exquisite har-
monies constitute striking feature
in his paintings but more striking is
the great depth which he puts in these
pictures and the balance which he
gives his spontaneous impressions.
The paintings to be exhibited here
range in price from $500 to $500. I'm.
less the pictures fail to arrive in time
the exhibit will open next Sunday
Afternoon at 2 o'clock. Further an
nouncement will be made later of the
opening. y -
Pictures which will be exhibited are
"A ! Day in March, "Wildwood".
"Springtime", "On Wintered Heights"
"Eary Autumn, Valley Snow and
Distant Hills, Sunlight and Hills,
Violet HilIs, broadway Brizzard"
"Fullness of ,SummeE, Indian Sum
heIs me-. MluHlA
ter. "In the Couaacticut Valley,
Lighe' and sEhs Little Village Under
the Hill.
Lives in Connecticut
A resident of a prominent artists
colony, Lyme, Conn, Mr.. Virgins is
acquainted with artists throughout the
country and is a member of the Con-
~ inc
Hartford Conn, National Academy of
Design, Lotus club, National Arts
club, Allied Artists Of America. Lyme
Art association, and the Salmagundi
club. ---.,,-,-
He has received the following
awards for pictures shown in Ameri-
can galleries: Durham prize, Connec,
ticut Academy of Fine Arts, 1918;
Turnbull prize, Salmagundi club, 1915;
Harris bronze medal and prize, Art
Institute of -Chica go: honorable men
ton, Philadelphia Art club; Flagg
prize, Connecticut academy; and the
Isidor prize OF the Salmagundi club
Pictures Enumerated
His pictures are owned by exclu
sive clubs In New York City and in
galleries of that place, as well as
other places in the country. Among
the paintings by which he is repre-
scented in other than private collec'
tions are: metropolitan Tower" Met
ropolitan museum, New York City;
Gloucester and Columbus Circle in
Winter" National gallery, Washing
ton D. c.; June in the Berkshires,
Brooklyn institute; Lightly Failing
Snow" Art institute. Chicago; Fifth
Avenue Storm" Dallas. Tex; Fifth
Avenue and And Street" Los Ange
les museum; "Opalescent Days" Lin
coin, Nebr.. Art association; Winter
Morning." Newark, N. j.. museum
Gloucester" Reading, Pa, Art gal
lery; Sunny. st. Ives" Syracuse, N
Y, museum; "Old North Docks.
Hackely art gallery, Muskegon, Mich
Through the Storm" Lotus club, New
York; Madison Square" National Art
club. New York.
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