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

hibits were shown in lab towns in
thirty-eight states.
The Twelfth Annual Exhibition of
Selected Paintings by Texas Artists
was held in the art gallery of the
Carnegie Library at Fl. Worth, Texas,
May Is to June Is.
One hundred and forty-two pictures
in oil. water color. and pastel. were
displayed by forty-seven artists re-
siding in FIT. Worth. Dallas, Galveston.
Austin, San Antonio and other Texas
towns.
The fact that the subiec. of most
of the pictures exhibited was Texas
landscape, was taken as a healthy
sign of the development of a true ma
tive art.
Miss Susan Richter Knox of New
York city is exhibiting in eastern cities
a group of twenty paintings of immi-
grant types seen by her at Ellis Island.
Every day for four months last year,
Miss Knox went to the Detention
Room at the Ellis Island Emigrant
station and made studies OF the in
coming foreigners.
The collection has been exhibited
at the Clergy club and at the Museum
of Natural History in New York city:
at the House of Representatives Of
flee Building, Washington, D. c., un-
der auspices of the Committee of I'M
migration and Naturalization; at the
Sweat Memorial Gallery, Portland,
Maine; and is now at Chautauqua.
New York. 1t is to be circulated next
season, among the art museums of
the entire country.
At the New York Art Center during
the month OF June has q remarkable
exhibit OF toys made by Russian refl-
gees in Constantinople, and brought
to America by Ruth Faison Shaw, who
has been doing relief work in the
Orient.
Most of the toys are groups of little
figures representing various phases of
life and different types OF people in
and near Constantinople.
Russian artists, many OF them for
merly men and women of distinction
in their native land, are eeking out
bare existence by making these toys
and selling them to members of the
English ana American colonies at
Constantinople.
A most Interesting description of
some of these groups of little figures
appeared on the art page of the New
York Times for June IL, 1922.
In the Pantheon de Guerre.'' Paris,
has an entire art gallery in one huge
canvas. The idea of this great work
was conceived and part of the work
painted by NJ. Carrier Belleuse and NJ.
Gorguet, two widely known present
day artists.
The work has to do with the great
"WorId War" 1t is executed on 49,
296 square feet of canvas, was
painted by $50 artists, and contains in
diVdual portraits OF $4,000 persons.
The painting is arranged in a circle,
and represents in sections, artistically
conceived groups, the most famous
personages of the war on the allied
side. Practically all of the portraits
are full length.
Other sections show important
events of the war on all OF the fronts
tons concerned. There are also allie
gorical sections.
It is reported that the huge paint
ing is to be exhibited in London and
also in New York.
The third annual exhibition of The
Tanner Art League. composed exclu-
sively of negro artists and sculptors
was held this moMth at the Dunbar,
negro high school in Washington, D.
c.
Exhibitions were sent In from all
parts OF the United States. There were
oil paintings, water color paintings,
prints, sculpture and a small amount
of commercial art, and art crafts
work.
A sculpture group by May How
ard Payne, q former student of the
Pennsyivania Academy of Fine Arts
and exhibitor at the National Acad-
envy OF Design in New York city. at
tracted special attention because Of
its skill, its sincerity, and its frank
representation of negro racial char
acteristics and problems
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