The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
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An organization, called the Kansas
Painters club. has been formed in To-
Reka It is made up Of e, gr0np se al
every Monday If the weather per-
mits, the members do landscape
painting. going to some one of many
picturesque spots In the neighborhood
of the city. If tie weather is bad.
they work in the studio of one of their
number.
Those who belong to the club are:
Mrs. L. c. Hodge, George M. Stone,
David Overmyer, and L. A. Gillette.
David Overmyer Is organizing a
class in poster work for the summer
months. 1t is not yet decided whether
this class will meet in Overmyer's
studio. SIS Kansas avenue. or at
Washburn college.
Mrs. Katherine Lindsey Perkins ex-
poets to spend a month this summer
in study of landscape painting under
John F. Carlson at Broadmoor acad-
finished her work at Colorado Springs.
she will go to Estes Park, Colorado,
for the remainder of the season. to as
sist her business partner, Miss Marie
| Witwer. in the conducting OF tner
Estes Park What-Not-Shop.
George NJ. Stone has Just completed
an oil portrait of Robert Dillar Car
yer, former Judge of the Shawnee
county district court, who is now gem
eral attorney for the Empire Oil and
Gas company at FIT. Worth. Texas
| The portrait Is on exhibition In the
| Topeka Art Guild Space" at the Sui
| Ivan art store on West Eighth avenue.
| II is an excellent likeness of Mr.. Gar
yer and also one of the best works
artisticaIly that Mr.. Stone has ever
produced.
| 800 ~ IN
teresting projects now under way in
the middle west is that of the Kansas
City, Mo-, Liberty Memorial" A war
memorial in memory of those from
Kansas City and the Immediately sur
| rounding country, who gave their
lives in the world War" is shortly to
| be erected on the forty-acre park just
south of the Union Depot. The gen
eral character of the memorial is to
be a monument plus a building fo1
lnon-utilitarian purposes. The people
of Kansas City have raised $2,00o,0Oq
for the purpose i
r. A. Long, the widely known mill
lionaire lumber dealer. was made th{
head of the Liberty Memorial associat
| ton under whose auspices the work u
being carried out. The Liberty Memt
| orial association has selected Thomaf
r. KimbaIl. of Omaha, Neb., past
president of the American association
Competition for the designs~is open
to all Kansas City architects and tc
| five designated firms in other cities
The outsiders are BLISS and Fairville
San Francisco; Paul P. Cret and Zant-
ringer, Borie and Medary. Philadef-
| phia; Bertram and Goodht1e, New
York; H. Van Buren, Magonigle. New
York; and York and Sawyer. New
York. Each competitor is requested
to submit design absolutely I'M
trammeled by any specifications or
suggestions of the Liberty Memorial
association. Then by the character of
the designs SO submitted. a committee
Is to Judge of the ability Of the re-
spective competitors. and will select
one who, in their judgment, Is best
qualified to design the memorial. The
man or firm so selected, will draw the
final plans for the memorial. All draw
ings were to be submitted before June
Is, 1921.
Agitation for the Liberty Memorial
was begun November 9. 1913, thru an
| editorial in the Kansas City Journal
of that date. written by Celbe G. Cline
managing editor of that paper. The
city council Immediately took up the
matter and a mass meeting OF citizens
was held on the 1eth of that same
month From this meeting sprang the
various committees which have car
ried on the campaign of popularizing
and financing the project.