The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-29

The October meeting of the Topeka
Art Guild was held Tuesday night at
the Hodge studio on Kansas avenue.
One of the most important meas
ures taken up and carried thru, was
that of having an exhibition of the
works of Kansas artists at the Topeka
high school next week. for the benefit
of the visiting teachers. Besides
George NJ. Stone, Miss Marian Peers,
Mrs. L. c. Hodge and other local ar
lists, Berger Sandzen of Lindsborg and
Mrs. Gladys N. Smith, of Minneapolis
are expected to exhibit work. Allan
Sells of Topeka was appointed chair
man of the committee in charge of
this exhibition
The president of the guild was au-
t.lorized to appoint a committee to
work for the inclusion of an art gall
lery in the plan of a new city library
building which might be built in the
near future.
L. c. Hodge gave a most entertain
ing and instructive talk On 4photog-
raphy. He discussed photography
from three viewpoints, photography
as a profession, photography from the
standpoint of the amateur, and pho
Biography in its relation to art.
Carl P. Bolmar was elected vice
president of the Topeka Art Guild to
fill out the unexpired term OF David
Ocermyer, who has gone to Kansas
City, Mo, to live.
The following is a list of commit
itees appointed to carry on the work of
1.-THE Topeka Art Guild during the pres
lent year, and the names of the per-
sons included in these committees.
Exhibitions-Mrs. L. D. Whittemore,
chairman; George M. Stone, vice
chairman; E. J. Buckles, Mrs Norman
Wear, Miss Marie Witwer, Miss
Marian Peers, Mrs. Katherine Perkins.
InhIiNifXy-(E9T1 p Rnln0aT chair
man; Mrs. Frank farrell, vice chair
man: Miss Frances Jones, Miss Sue
Carmody, Miss Marie Witwer, Mrs. H.
o. Carney, Mrs. c. A. Wolf, Mrs.
Margaret Hill McCarter, Miss Lu
Grace Whitmer, Mrs. T. D. Alden.
Finance. C. Hodge, Mrs. L. D.
Whittemore.
Furnishing and Hanging-L. A. Gil
lette, chairman; Mrs. Norman Keller
vice chairman; Mrs. Matt Weightman,
Mrs. Harry Gayitt, Rev. c. A. Clark,
Maynard Walker, Mr.. Allan Sells,
Mrs. W. H. Fighter, Mrs. c. J. Coburn,
Mrs. Byron Davis, Mrs. Ed Hindman,
Mrs. L. c. Hodge, Mrs. Carl Bolmar.
Membership-Mrs o. T. Chopper,
chairman; Mrs. F. c. Kaths, vice
Mulvane, Mrs. Robert Pierce, Mrs.
Frank Thompson, Miss Nina Moore,
Mrs. W. T. Crosby. Mrs. Ed Terrill,
Mrs. Horace Hall. Mrs. S. c. Nichols,
Mrs. J. A. Cole, Mrs. Phil Chamber
lain, MRS. Margaret Sullivan, Miss
Lydia Barnes, Mrs. Frank Crane.
Program-Mrs. L. C. Hodge, chair
man; Mrs. Katherine Perkins, vice
chairman; Miss Marian Peers.
Social-Mrs. c. B. Merriam, chair
man; Mrs. Chester Woodward, vice
chairman; Miss Irene Horner. Glen
wood E. Jones Mrs. c. NJ. Sheldon.
Mrs. Henry Allen, Mrs. George NJ.
Stone, Mrs. Guilford Dudley, Miss
Ruth Thompson.
Two of the most famous pictures
produced by an English painter will
be lost to England in the very near
future. unless the British people act
quickly, and subscribe enough money
to purchase them.
These pictures are blue Boy" by
/ Thomas Gainsborough, and Tragic
Muse by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Sir Joseph Duveen, noted British
| art dealer, has purchased these two
| paintings from the Duke of Westmin-
| ster, for the sum of 100000. It is
said that for more than a generation.
no such important sale of paintings
/ has been made.
The Duveens have been trying for
years to purchase blue Boy" The
| father of Sir Joseph offered $500. 1000
/ refused. The actual purchase price IS
said to be $3.50, 600. The purchase
1 price of Tragic Muse" is reported
as 100000.
Both paintings are now in the base
ment of the National Gallery, Lon
I don, where they were taken for safe
keeping at the beginning of the war
They are to be Immediately removed
4 and their original lustu-e restored
| Blue Boy" has been covered with
/ four coats of varnish during the last
4 hundred years, to preserve the paint
This gives the painting a greenish
4 tinge. Sir Charles Holder, the Ma
4 tional Gallery expert, Will restore the
i pictures
4 The two pictures will be exhibited
! for three weeks at the Duveen gal
leries in London, beginning November
i Is. Then at the Duveen galleries ir
Il Paris. After that they will be brought
to New York and exhibited. If theJ