The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-11
ART EXHIBIT HERE
Members of Topeka Art Guild
Are Well Pleased.
Many Pictures Presented by
Local Artists.

The members and associate mem
bers of the Topeka Art guild, who,
with their husbands, wives and friends,
gathered Saturday night on the second
floor of Boswell hall, Washburn col
lege, for a private view of the exhibit
ton of paintings and art objects which
opened to the public today, generally
expressed themselves as being greatly
pleased with what they saw.
The artists represented in the Amer
lean Federation of Arts part of the
exhibition stand in the very forefront
of a not overly large group of distin-
tinguished American painters of the
present day.
Exhibited in Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts of Philadelphia is perhaps the
most exacting and. rigid of all schools
and galleries of the United States with
regard to the quality of the work it
accepts for its exhibitions, and pos
sesses d judging committee of excep-
tionaI ability. In view of these facts
it speaks we'll for the quality of the
work now being exhibited at Wash
burn college, that twenty of the ar
lists having work shown were repre-
sented at practically every Pennysl-
vania Academy of Fine Arts exhibit
ton in the last three or four years
Every one of the twenty exhibited at
the 1918 annual of that gallery
The names of the twenty are: John
F.. Carlson, Mary Butler, Frank S.
Chase, Eliot Clark, Fern l. Coppedge,
Arthur Crisp, Charles c. Curran.
Edeard D1fner, Gertrude Fiske. John
Folinsbee, Birge Harrison, H. Dudley
Murphy, Hobart Nicholas. Carl j.
Nordell, Leonard Ochtman, Jane
Peterson. Charles Rosen, Chauncey F.
RYDER, Robert Spencer, and Robert
VonEoh
Has Four Pictures.
Mrs. Fern I. Coppedge has four
pictures in the exhibition, one is
winter scene amid the hills of eastern
PENNSYLVANIA and the others are ma
rines painted along the coast OF
Massachusetts,. They are all char
acterized by a charming appreciation
of beautiful color and clever por-
travail of light and atmosphere MIS-
Coppedge is fast gaining for herself a
secure place among American painters
of out door scenes
Among the pictures by local artists,
and not heretofore mentioned, are two
by c. ]. Masseck, a local artist one
is a glimpse of the curious old cathe-
draI of Abb in southern France, the
tower of which is seen looming up
over the town roofs. as viewed down
a narrow street thanked WITH quaint
houses. The other is a landscape en-
titled \"Reeds and Water" This is
the first time Masseck has contributed
to a local exhibition.
David Overmyer's Textile Vendors"
or THE Fair as it is listed in the
catalog, attracted a great deal or at
tention on account of its decorative
color arrangem emit
Five Paintings by Gillette.
1. A. Gillette contributes five land
scapes. most of them Rocky mountain
scenery Among them, Quiet Morn
ing" little mountain lake surrounded
by high purple hills, is especially in
teresting Miss Clarisse Laurent has
entered a good landscape, painted in
one of Denver's parks, and George NJ
Stone Maynard Walker Marian Peers
and Mrs Helen Hodge are each rep
resented by excellent work in oils or
pastel most of which has been de-
scribed in previous articles on the ex-
hibitiou.
There is an exhibit of work of local
art craftsmen, to which C. A. Clark
of Granville has contributed an art
lamp and an incense spoon; E. ].
Buc1els of the Topeka, high school
faculty, a trunk lamp of unique de-
sign and a copper plate; Marian Peers,
examples of decorative work by high
school pupils; Hampton and Pauline
ShTer, a decorative box, candles and
shades; Virginia Frances Sterrett, a
book of French fairy tales illustrated
by herself; and Mrs. Katherine Per-
kins and Miss Marie Witwer. examples
of work done at the ''What-Not Shop
-e
New York-Policemen inva ding Coney Is
land cafes drank from every glass they
saw. Many diners returned the compli-