The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-17
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The Topeka Art Guilds first meet
ing of the season will be held on the
evening of Tuesday, September 81, at
the Hodge studio, TIA Kansas avenue
The writer of this column is in re-
ceipt of an exceedingly artistic and
attra ctive catalogue issued by the
Dudensing art galleries, New York.
1t is printed on extra heavy calen-
dered paper and contains fourteen
handsome halftone reproductions, in
black and white, of paintings by lead
ing artists all over the world. A short
description of the picture, printed in
bold, heavy type, accompanies each
engraving. The cover of the cata-
logue is a heavy, rough-surfaced pa
per of a delicate shade of lavender.
Richard Dudensing and Son have
been in the business of art collecting
for forty years. 1t is one of the best
known firms in the United States. Be-
sides the art collections constantly on
display at its home galleries, As West
44th street, New York city its repre-
sentatives make extensive exhibitions
from time to time N most of the
larger cities of the country.
The Topeka art fraternity is, gen.
orally speaking, much pleased with
the art exhibit at the Kansas Free
Fair this year. A good display of
work by local talent was expected and
the expectation was justified. But
the pleasant surprise to those anxious
for the advance of artistic culture
thruout the state of Kansas. and the
thing that made this years exhibition
so especially interesting was the good
work sent from other towns, most of
it by persons entirely new to us.
The work of Gladys n. Smith and
of Frank Arbuckle has been spoken
| of in previous articles on the Kansas
Free Fair art exhibit. 1t will suffice
fn hot iS Of
them.
| OF the local work not heretofore
touched upon, Maynard Walkers por-
trait of a lady is new and interesting.
All of the work so far exhibited in
| Topeka by that promising young man
has a special charm all its own. This
| oil portrait is no exception.
Mrs. L. c. Hodge. of Topeka, ex-
| hlbited two very good marines which
| were much admired. A Miss Wolff,
entered a group of five or six oil
paintings of still life, some of which
| indicate considerable promise. The
good work of Miss Margaret White
more and Miss Katherine Cole has
| been mentioned before, also that of
L. A. Gillette.
The work in design originated and
executed by students of some of our
state educational institutions was truly
| a delight to look upon and should be
| Satisfaction
| the taxpayers of the state because of
| the results being accomplished.
In the State University display is
a design for wall paper for a child's
room or nursery. 1t is one of the
freshest, most original, appropriate
and beautiful designs of the kind the
| writer has ever seen, and he has seen
much high-grade wall paper or de-
| signs for the same. The motif is rab-
| bits playing among toadstools, and the
colors are delicate shades of pink, yell
low and lavender. There are other
good wall paper designs in the same
exhibit
The Kansas State Agricultural Col
| lege also entered good exhibition of
patterns for design. The designs wore
for more varied uses, wall paper, tex
tiles, and the decorations of home
draperies and women's dresses
1t is said that the classes in design
ing at the Kansas State Agricultural
College are especially well attended
That is assuredly a most encouraging
fact. for what can do more to brighten
the dull routine on a remote farm
than a beautifully and tastefully dec
GRATED home? Then, too. a farmers
wife or daughter cSn always appear
attractive in public, if she is well
grounded in the principles of decora-
tive design. Tho her gown may not
be in the exact prevailing mode, good
taste and propriety will do much to
conceal the fact
1t Is q regrettable fact that Dumou-
Inns diorama of the Battle of Chateau
Th1erry which was on exhibition in a
tent, at the Kansas Free Fair all week
under auspices of the American COM
mittee for the rebuilding of the war
devastated area of France, did not re-
ceive its merited share of attention
from the public
The painting is a work of art of high
order in spite of accessories put in for
the sake of realism, VIII CHI may have
cheapened it in the eyes of some
critics.
The placing of the picture in tent
far removed from the art section of
the fair where it was surrounded by a
number of noisy and distracting at
fractions of far different nature, was
serious mistake. The nearby band
and other noises disturbed the inter
esttng lecture that accompanied the
painting.
The management hopes to bring the
picture back to Topeka during the
American Legion reunion in November
and exhibit it in a place and amid
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