Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-03
HUNG
FOR INAUGURAL
DAY RECEPTION
Art Loan Exhibit From
Santa Fe Homes Forms
Beautiful Background at
Welcome to Governor.

Especial Correspondence to The Journall
Santa Fe, Jan 2,-The inaugural
exhibit of paintings at the museum,
for beauty and excellence, eclipses
all former loan exhibits which have
been a feature in Santa Fe an
nually for the past ten years and
more. At first, these exhibits were
hung in the reception room of the
palace of the governors but since
the completion of the new mu-
scum, they have found place in the
well-lighted alcoves of the magnifi-
cent structure where art treasures
Of New Mexico homes have been
shown to the best advantage.
This time more canvasses than
ever before are on exhibit and the
number of artists represented Is
several score, testifying to the
growth of New Mexico's list of
artists, for most of the paintings
are from the brush of either the
Taos or the Santa Fe group.
- Art Loan Exhibit.
For the first time, art treasures
from the home of U. S. Senator
Thomas B. Catron have been freely
loaned and as they are representa-
tive of European and old masters,
they have been given an alcove by
themselves, the first in the Tewa
gallery. The paintings shown were
gathered from the homes of A. b,
Renehan, George w. Pritchard, l..
A. Hughes, Francis c. Wilson, II.
H. Dorman, Arthur Seligman,
James Seligman, T. B. Catron, Dan
Kelly, Paul A. F. Waiter, John X.
Stauffer, F. E. Nud;ng, F. f. Mera.
Frank Andrews, r. P. Donohco,
Mrs. Charles A. Spiess, Edgar
l.. Hewett, I. II. Rapp, A. +. Sple-
gelberg, Julius Cans, r. F. Steven
son. B. w. Page, Howard Huey, r.
D. Ewart, Ashley Pond, w. j. Bar
ker, N. B. Laughlin, Wesley Brad
field, X. M. Chapman, Theodore
EIspe, E. A. Fiske, Hugh Gli,uour,
g. r. Wright, Brian, Boru Dunno,
Thomas Wilson; with other homes
to be represented by later arrivals,
ali testifying to the fact that too
love of art in its highest forms is
exemplified in more and more
Sarta Fe homes, a direct influence
of the atmosphere created by tho
museum and the art colony.
To enrich the exhibit, several of
the artists have contributed their
latest work. Especially resplend-
ent are two great canvases by e.
i. Blumenschein, which represent
his art at its apogee. Altogether
two hundred paintings were hung
on Friday so as to form a superb
setting for the reception to Gov
ernor and Mrs. Merritt c. Mechem.
Richer and rarer tapestry surely
was not seen on the Field of the
Cloth of Gold than constituted the
background to the receiving line
on New Years afternoon.
Visitors from afar declare sin
cerely that no exhibit they have
seen in any of the great art centers
of the country has so thrilled
them, or told them SO much of the
real America and its art aspjra-
lions. All art tendencies and
trends were represented, from
some of the old Italian and Span
ish masters to the work of such
as Sacha and Hartley,
B. ]. o. Nordfeldt is represented
by a striking portrait which forms
the most conspicuous canvas in |
the Tewa gallery Just as the Blum
enschein paintings are the most |
of the Keresan gallery.
Nordfelt is just now being ac-
claimed by the New York critics, |
the New York Times, for instance,
picking out his work from the an
ual exhibit of the Taos society, as
follows: "Mr. Nordfelt's Eagle |
Dance is an example of what may
be done with method so rigor-
ously held to the necessities of de-
sign that the subject matter is
the starting point for log
ical architecture of space and line.
The plunging forms of the dancers
and their grotesque masks are es-
sential parts of a remarkably
pattern in which the
third dimension is emphasized, and
the pattern, one feels. has grown
out OF the relation of these figures
to each other in the strange rhythm
Of the dance, but the curves of the
hilltops and the curious structures
In the background are equally i'm
portant to the total effect. The col
or is bright and fresh, the painting
direct, and in spite of the careful
out of the design the eff
feet is that of scene beheld for
the first time and recorded in the
first sprightly moment Of interest"
Silver Wedding Anniversary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul A. +. Walter,
for the past twenty-five years resi-
1ents of Santa Fe, on New Years
lay observed their silver wedding
Because of the in
augural festivities there had been
no formal observance, but
many friends of the couple offered /
heir congratulations. Mr.. and /
Mrs. Walter took occasion to an
nounce the marriage of their son, ,
John X. S. Walter, at Ell Paso, to
Miss Edna COBB, wnicn was SOL
during the week by DR.. |
Floyd Poe of the First Presbyte-l
ian church at Ell Paso, of which |
both groom and bride are men, +
oers. The former is graduate of [
leland Stanford university, served (
Is an officer in the army during ,
he war and is an employe of the ,
first National bank of Ell Paso, I
rhe bride is the daughter of an old /
Ind distinguished New England I
amily and is a college alumna. She {
lad accompanied her sister, who [
vas on her way to Parral, Mexico, {
Is far as Ell Paso, arriving there '
ust about the time that the groom |
ook up his residence in the Pass /
,ity. Ii
Indian Festivities. Ii
The Pueblos of Tesuque have
ust finished a marvellous cycle of
lance ceremonies which began
With Christmas and lasted until ,
Jew Year. 1t is astonishing how
he ritual and costumes have been !
through the ages. for
'art of the drama enacted is very ,
ncipnt Some of the ceremonies