The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-25

| Something in Topeka at the present
| time that is very well worth seeing is
a group of several new and delightful
paintings by Mrs. Gladys Nelson Smith
of Minneapolis, Kan. They are on ex-
hibition at the ~What-Not-Shop." 100
| West Eighth avenue. The paintings
are landscapes and pictures of child
life.
! one, called wind Among the
| Trees" shows two little children
standing in woods listening to the
| wind roaring thru the tree tops. The
/ expression of half wonder, half fear
in the faces of the little tots as they
/ fancy they hear the voices OF fairies
and hobgobHns in the noise of the
| roaring wind is charming indeed.
Another picture, called THE Candle
Fairy" shows a little girl of two or
| three years watching the Pickering
| flame of a candle in which she sees a
tiny fairy. The strong lights and
/ shadows on the little girls face are
finely expressed.
| An exceedingly good landscape is "a
March Sand Storm 1t shows street
/ in a central Kansas village during one
of those spring wind storms with
which we are all so familiar. The
dusty atm osphere which the sun lights
with a feeble reddish yellow glare, the
bending trees, the dimly seen houses,
and the Tapping garments of the peo-
pie as they struggle and fight their
| way along against the wind is indi-
Gated in a way that is both masterful
and original.
| especially noteworthy is that of a wide
expanse of Kansas farmland under
I blanket of snow The effects Of space,
distance and atmosphere are exceed
ingly well expressed. There Is just
enough color given by the dead grass
and the winter trees to save the pic
ture from monotony.
have only mentioned a few of the
pictures, there are several others
and interest as those I have touched
upon, perhaps more. The exhibition
must be seen to be appreciated
Mrs. Smith first became known to
Topekans thru an exhibit of her woSk
that she entered at the Kansas Free
Fair last fall. Several articles ap-
peared about her in the local papers
at that time. She studied art at the
Kansas State university and at some
of the eastern schools She possesses
fine well controlled, poetic imagi-
nation, a knowledge of children, good
nique. all of which promise to land her
in a place of honor among the well
known artists of the middle west.
An art event in Kansas City, Mo,
at the present time is the exhibition
of paintings by Guy Virgins at the
Rompel Galleries, 1112 MCGEE street
Guy Virgins is 3s years old; He
A
OF Design. and has work in the Metro
politan Museum of Art, New York, the
National Art Gallery in Washington,
and the Chicago Art Institute. The
Work he is exhibiting in Kansas City
is landscape. He is said to display
fine technique and delicate color COM
position. All of his canvases are
reminiscent of natural beauties and
OF the subtelties of nature
Virgins will be in kansas City until
the close of his exhibition April 1. He
talked before the Woman's City club
and the Kansas City Art Institute
wednesday evening of this week on
The Place of Art in Our Homes"
Our weekly New York letter con-
tains the following paragraphs:
New York is seen as the art center
of the world in the plan of the Acad-
envy OF Design and New York univer-
sity. An affiliation between these two
institutions has just been announced.
and it is expected that thru the merg-
ing. instruction and opportunity for
work in the fine arts may be given
which will push our city into first
place in the whole world for the de-
veiopment of artists learning and
skill. I'VE hope New York may be-
come to the artistic world what Flor
ence was in the fourteenth and fiji
teenth centuries" Gen. Charles Fl.
Sheriff. OF New York university said
in discussing the plan.
It is an interesting pilgrimage that
Lionel s. Reiss, young New York art