The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-19
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and shown for two weeks under the
joint auspices of the two organizations.
The place of exhibition will be Bos-
well hall.
As mentioned before in this column.
the exhibit is a collection of the best
work of the nations leading artists,
| cleaned from the past winters exhibit
tions of New York, Philadelphia and
Boston, by the American Federation
of Arts and by that organization sent
on a tour around the United States.
| A complete list of the names of the
artists whose work is contained in
the exhibition cannot be given at this
| time but the collection will include
the work of about thirty persons,
| twenty-five of whom exhibited work
! at the Panama Pacific exposition in
l1915, and received gold medal awards
BY this the public may judge OF the
| treat in store for it.
In connection with this event WIN
| be a department for Kansas artists,
and several members of Topeka's ART
circle will exhibit pictures at that
| time.
| If the combined efforts of the art
committee of the Woman's club, the
| Toueka Art guild and the Delta Phi
| Delta sorority of Washburn college
| proye successful, Topekans will nave
an opportunity of hearing some tlIie
| in the near future, delightful taIk
! on ART or sculpture w bOA 49,
the noted Chicago sculptor. VINO stanus
| in the front rank among his pro1es-
sionaI contemporaries of the world
Art societies of several midwestern
cities and towns are endeavoring 10
arrange a short lecture circuit for Mr..
Taft, and it is expected that Iopeha
will be included in that circuit.
! In the March number of the Inter
national Studio is an illustrated article
on Mr. Tafts latest works. the "Foun-
I tain of Time" and the FOUNTAIN OF
Creation" which are to be erected at
opposite ends of the Chicago street
| called the Midway"
|. In both sublimity of idea and gran
deur of execution these sculptural
works will rank as masterpieces of the
| present age.
The design and the full size plaster
model for the Fountain of Time are
already completed. Mr.. Taft said the
idea was suggested by line of Austin
Dobson's:
thine goeseyou say? All, no,
! Alas. time stays. we CO."
In the center of the fountain pool
will stand Time" a majestic figure
| clothed like one of Sargent's prophets,
and suggesting in its execution one of
Robins works. Arranged in front of
| Time in a semicircle on the rim of
the basin. is a composition 112 feet
| long, suggesting a rolling wave filled
| with a multitude of human figures.
From left to right. the figures typify
| the progress of humanity, individually
and collectively, from birth, to death
] by old age. Hope, ambition, aspira-
| ton, love, triumph, sorrow, despair,
the figures that rise above the COM
mon human plane, those that always
remain submerged in the mass, those
who die in the middle of life's race,
| are all brought to the beholder's atten-
ton in a profound and mastery man
! ner. dorado Taft spent ten years in
working out this group.
The Fountain of Creation" is
based on the ancient myth of
Deucalion, the Greek Noah, who re-
peopled the earth by throwing stones
| which the gods turned into men. Mr.
| Taft used this idea to typify the rise of
| the human race from a mere clod of
the earth earthly" to a highly organ
lied and intelligent social group. Out
| of the stones that Deucalion has
/ thrown are seen rising, shadowy
human forms which become increas-
ingly defined. detached and beautified
as the mass mounts upward. The
| Fountain of Creation" is still in it's
model stage.
Says the author of the International
| Studio article, Della Austrian, an
eminent writer, has paid dorado Taft
the tribute of being the greatest ar
| tistic educative personality of the Gull
| tural west. who has done more to in
spire knowledge of art and love of
| beautiful sculpture than any man of
! his age in America
Now on exhibition at the Sullivan
| art store are five small drawings of
| Colorado mountain scenery in winter,
| the work of Maynard Walker, a for
mer Topeka young man, now living
with the Hewes- Kirkwood Inn artist
colony, Longs Peak, Colorado.
These little pictures may truly be
called gems-gems of the highest
quality. For originality of execution
! and technique, for holiness of concep-
ton and a true and spirited feeling
| for the truths and beauties of nature,
| they are%admirable. They are drawn
on ordinary white bond paper with
| colored crayons, ink and water eolors.
Whatever medium would best bring
! out the desired effect was used re-
gardless of rule or tradition. All OF
| the poetry, distance, immensely and
| color of the Rocky mountains are por-
| trayed in a mastery way.
Among the five drawings, the one
that seemed most attractive to the
writer was Solitude" 1t is a picture
! of huge, bare. precipitous cliff
bathed in brilliant sunlight Its
mighty front scanned with countless
cracks. crevices and gullies, filled with
Mr.. Walker has just written his
sister in Topeka that one of his paint
ings, Battle Mountain" was accepted
for the exhibition of Colorado ar
! lists now being held in Denver under
auspices of the Denver Art Associa-
ton. He wrote that out of 800 pic
lures sent to that exhibition. but fifty
were accepted by the committee In
charge. AS the committee of selec-
ton was made up of artists of ma
tional and even international reputa-
ton and included Robert Reid and
Allan Tree, it was a high compliment
to his ability that they should select
a picture by an almost unknown
young man like Maynard Walker
What the committee thought of Mr.
Walkers work can best be shown by
quoting from a report which one OF
the committee sent to the young ar
fist: For this-that is, Battle Noun
tain-waS one of the very few pic
turnes in the whole showing, that both
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