The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-10-10
HOOSIER COLLECTS
ANNALS OF ARTISTS
OF INDIANA IN BOOK

Annals OF Indiana artists have been
collected by a native Hoosier into
book form to be passed down the dec
AIDES. The author, Mrs. Mary @. Bur
net, prominent Indianapolis woman,
better known as Mrs. H. B. Burnet,
has just published a volume. Art
and Artists of Indiana" which she has
been engaged in compiling for several
years.
The book from the press of the
Century company, New York, has IA
chapters. one of which is devoted to
The Richmond Movement" The
chapters in their order are: Pioneers
and Itinerant Artists" New Har-
mony Art Interests" George Winter
and Contemporaries" Early Artists
in Indianapolis" Jacob Cox and his
Friends" John Love and the First
Indiana Art School" William NJ.
Chase and Samuel Richards" THE
Hoosier Group. j. Otis Adams, Will
liam Forsyth, Richard B. Gruelle, Otto
Stark, T. c. Steele" ''The Art Asso-
citation of indianapolis and the Socie-
ty of Western Artists" THE Art
Schools and Former Students" "Wil-
helmina Seegmiller," "The Richmond
Movement" Artists Throughout Ind
lana" Sculpture: Rudolph SchwarZ."
One of the most interesting and
valuable features of the volume is an
addenda of SO pages, which contains,
among other things, Who's Who
in Indiana Art" listing 375 Indiana
t;rf1 hair aII
places, where trained for art work,
membership in art societies, awards,
where represented with examples Of
work, and other invaluable informa-
tion, which has never been gathered
before. In another part of the adden-
da are the names OF artists who are
specialists, including rs as illustra-
tors and 81 as makers of book plates
Data On Associations.
Data on Indiana art associations, of
which there are SO and on Indiana art
schools, of which there are eight, IS
also in the addenda. Other material
IN this section includes list of por-
traits Of the governors of Indiana, and
by whom painted, and seven pages de-
voted to Indiana monuments and
sculpture.
Eighty-one full page reproductions
in black and white of paintings by In
diana artists are among the illustra-
tions. In addition there are, besides
the reproductions of paintings, pic
lures representing the work of Indi-
ana sculptorS. picture of Janet
Scudder's Tortoise Fountain" owned
by the Richmond Art association, and
standing in the third floor corridor of
the high school here, is among these.
Figures from the Soldiers and Sailors
monument in Indianapolis are also pic
tured.
From one to four picturese by the
following Richmond artists are illus
trated: Mrs. Maude Kaufman Egge-
meyer, John f. Bunyd, Charles Conner
and George H. Baker. Other artists
who are represented include numbers
of those who have exhibited in the To-
cal gallery. They are: w. r. Free
man, Charles A. Lesueur, George Win
ter, DeScott Evans, John Gibson Dunn.
Thomas B. Glessing, Burton S. Hays.
Jacob Cox, Margaret Rudisill, Peter
Fish Reed, John Love, James F. Goo
kins, Frank Edwin Scott, William NJ.
Chase, Samuel Richards, j. Otis
Adams, Winifred B. Adams, William
Forsyth, Richard B. Gruelle, Otto
am, Emma B. King, Sadie Weisen-
burger, Lucy NJ. Taggart, Ruth Pratt
Bobbs, Dorothy Morlan, Clifton A
Wheeler Wayman Adams, Randolph L.
Coats. S. P. Baus, Olive Rush, Daniel
CARRIER, Clarence Ball, Leon A. Max
ielski. Robert w. Grafton, Katherine
Fl. Wagenhals, Adolph r. Schulz, Ada
Walter Shulz, H. G. Davisson, Louise
Z. Earring, Will Henry Stevens.