The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-04
WILL HOLD CIVIC
GATHERING FEB. Il
ON CITY PLANNING


Wednesday evening. The annual ex-
hibit will surpass in size and variety
any that has been held in previous
years. There will be pieces from
local arts and crafts workers, and
many wonderful things from other
parts of the country, notably the east.
The chief feature will be daring and
startling array of batiks and other art
achievements from Herman Sachs and
his pupils of the experimental school
of industrial art in Dayton, Ohio. This
part of the exhibit will be the most
expensive aggregation and will ex-
emplify the most ultra-modern steps
which art has taken either in this
country or abroad I'm It's progress of
recent years.
The opening will be marked by the
appearance of Mr.. Sachs here to speak
on the showing from the Dayton
school. He will also give a demon
stration of batik work. in which field
he is a skilled master. Members of
the Art department of the Woman's
club are to act as hostesses at the
opening.
Civic Gathering
Coincident with announcement of the
opening next Wednesday evening
Of exhibits. Mrs Melville F. Johnston,
that week from Sunday the gallery
is to be the center of civic gathering
10 which special invitation is to be
extended to Mayor Lawrence A. Hand
ley, the members of the city council,
board of works, City Engineer Dell
Davis and his assistants, members of
the Woman's club. civics department,
and the city planning committee of the
Chamber of Commerce. The cynOSure
for this gathering is to be collection
of so pictures on city planning arrang-
cd by the American Federation of Arts
and sent from New York City especial
" for the coming arts and craft show.
Talks and discussion viii be given by
the city officials and other persons at
tending.
Two of the gallery rooms have al
ready been reserved for the exhibit,
which promises to be so extensive that
part of the permanent collection of
paintings may have to be removed to
afford space for the arts and crafts.
Three Major Exhibitions
Batiks, designs, inlays, murals, mo-
siacs. ceramics, lustre, all of them
striking in color, unusual in design,
and original in composition will in
part comprise the Sach contribution
10 the show. Sakona parchment
shades are to form something very
new. the Sakona parchment being an
invention of Mr.. Sachs. The shades
and shields are cut individually, each
original, and no two exact reproduc-
tions. The decorations are painted az
ter the parchment is made but plain
sakona often has the design made in
the parchment. These shades and
shields are by artist pupils and will be
exhibited in shades of brown, green,
red. JUDGE, black, jade and rose.
Mr.. Sachs, originally from Chicago,
spent II years abroad where he stud
led in London. Berlin, Munich, and
Paris. In 1919 he founded the Mu-
mich expressionist shops which are
a cooperative art movement, with rep
resentatives in London, Bucharest and
Paris. At the Chicago Art Institute
last year he created a sensation with
an exhibition of some of his work.
In 1919 he was secured as director OF
the DAYTON school of Industrial arts,
founded in that year, and his work
there is attracting much attention IN
America as well as abroad.
Dudley Crafts Watson, director Oh
the Milwaukee and Minneapolis Art
institutes says: Sachs is the master
craftsman of the age" He is national
" recognized as a leader of the mod
ern art crafts movement.
Three Major Exhibitions
Three major exhibitions OF pottery
and porcelains are to be shown, one
from Fulper, of Pennington, n. j., an
other from William G.. Whitford, OF
Chicago. and the third that of the
Overlook sisters, whose work is al
ready we'll known here. Fulper is
sending pottery and porcelains. The
pottery includes candle sconces and
sticks, bowls, twig sticks, and vases
while the potteries are comprised OF
parrots, ballet girl perfume burners
Egyptian candy jars and poudre jars
William G. Whitford is sending
vases of yellow, fawn, and blue with
inlays and polychrome decorations
lars. yellow, cream, brown, and blue
in color, with incised and painted or
naments; a flower bowl with insert
of yellow with lavendar lining and an
other brown with blue lining: two
lars one black. the other blue, with
incised ornaments. The Overlook con
signment had not arrived Saturday.
Elsie Carpell, a star exhibitor OF last
year, is again sending some wondrous
batiks, lovely in color and magma
tive in composition and arrangement
Her pieces are called "Sir Launcelot'
and "The Dance" "a music room dec
Grafton.
\ Cheney silk exhibit illustrating
the old and new designs in weavings
of silk, as well as reproductions of old
Italian designs of wonderful color, is
to be one of the striking single arrays
in the whole exhibit. The exhibit is
very unusual and exhibits the high
development of artistic work in indus
trial lines in this country. The col
lection of silks has been shown in
nearly all the large museums in the
country.
Henrietta Coleman, of Rushyille, i:
sending some batikS. She is pupi
of famous New York batik worker
Young artists from the John Her
ron Art institute whose work was al
interesting part of last years SHOW
are again sending consignments. The7
include batiks from Oakley Richey
formerly of this city; designs from
Dorothy Eisenbach and designs from
Esther Jones, of this city.
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