The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-01

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The mural decorations in the chan
eel of Grace cathedral will be in
place by the last of this week or the
first of next week. Dean Kaye has
postponed his summer vacation few
days in order that he might see this
work completed before his departure.
| The walls of the chancel apse are
to be covered by large three-sec-
J ton fresco painting by E. Martin
Henning of Chicago, representing the
Ascension of Christ. Mr.. Henning has
been at work on this painting at his
Chicago studio during the past two or
| three months.
In former times frescos were
painted directly on the walls which
they were to adorn, but the present
| his picture on canvas in his studio or
work shop. The canvas is afterwards
pasted or otherwise attached to the
wall which is to be its permanent To-
cation. The l--Odern method is belng
pursued at Grace cathedral.
At the same time that these paint
| ings are to be installed, the adjoin-
| ing walls and the ceiling above are
tinted. The total cost of the work is
to be $4,000
The money for this work was do
mated, a short time before her death
| by the late Mrs. J. R. Shelton of To-
ceka as a memorial to her parents,
Major and Mrs. N. F. Handy.
| The rose window in the west tran
| sept of the cathedral, given b. Bishop
| and Mrs. James Wise as a memorial
| to their little son, Jimmy. was also
glass panels representing the four
| evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John. Two each, in each of the two
doors. one leading from the main
and the other from the church into
| the choir room. These panels aare
memorials, too, as is most OF the
stained glass in the building,
A three-light memorial window to
| the late Mrs. Margaret Stevens has
also been placed in the vestibule OF
| the north tower of the church. Its
subject is the Publication of the Vir-
gin Mary. The donors are Thomas S.
Stevens, husband of Margaret stevens,
and Genevfeve and Clarence McMil-
| Ian, Mrs. Stevens niece and nephew.
All of the glass placed in Grace
cathedral during the last week or ten
days is to be dedicated at the morning
service next Sunday.
The summer school sessions of tho
Broadmoor Art Academy at Colorado
Springs, Colorado, will open July 10.
Everett Longley Warner, A. N. A, OF
New York, will conduct the course IN
summer classes but turnout the en-
tire coming season. Mr.. Warner
takes the place of John F. Carlson,
who has been the head of the Broad
moor Academy up to the present
time.
Competent judges say that in the
Broadmoor Academy, Colorado
Springs possesses an art school of
which the entire west may well be
proud.
Both Mr.. Carlson and his successor,
Mr.. Warner. are men of the highest
distinction in American art circles, In
fact in the entire modern world OF art
So also is Robert Reid, N. A.. who
academy faculty, conducting itS
classes in figure painting.
Kenneth McIntire of Washington,
D. c., will take the place of Lloyd
E1Cylan in the department OF indus
trial arts, during q leave of absence
which has been granted to Mr.. Moy-
Ian.
Miss Louise Strang, graduate of
Pratt Institute and the Art Students
League of New York. who for five
years has been instructor of arts and
decoration at the University of Wis
ctnsin, will conduct a six weeks in
tensivc course in the applied arts at
the Broadmoor Academy. This
course opens July 29. This work is
intended for the special benefit of
teachers WHO wish to instruct in de-
signing and house decoration in public
or private schools. The classes are
open to anybody desiring to take the
work, however.
Dhe department for beginners and
children will be in charge of Miss
Alice Craig, pupil of William Chase.
Robert Henri and Robert Reid.
Wilfred H. Stedman, student at the
Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts,
Art Students League of New York and
the Ecole des Beaux Arts at Bean
coz, France. will continue to teach in
the industrial Arts department
No previous study is necessary as
a qualification to entrance as q stu
dent at the Broadmoor Academy. II
is said that the enrolment for the
summer classes this year is unusually
large.
The American Federation of Art an
nounces that it will send out sixty
three travelling exhibitions during the
season of 1922-23. These will in
clude collections of oil paintings. wa
ographs. wood block prints, repro
auctions, sculpture. photographs, in
dustrial art, architecture and civic
art. Also work done in schools.
Among the last three mentioned, |
are collections of modern American |
textiles. including tapestries and bro
cades; silk, wooden and cotton fab |
RIGS showing latest Developments in |
production of fine designs. |
and velvets with hand machine printed |
patterns; furniture types illustrated |
chiefly by large photographs; and a
group of photograp hs showing garden /
plans from the American Society of
Landscape Architects.
Any of these exhibitions may be
obtained by art museums and associa-
tons in any part of the United States,
for a fee covering the cost of as
semblage and insurance.
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