The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-28

Art Guild was confronted with the al
tentative of taking it now or losing it
altogether. They decided to take it,
believing it is wise policy anyhow. to
keep a supply of good pictures con-
stantly on hand for public inspection.
Four members of the faculty of the
school of fine arts of the University
of Kansas have been honored unusual
ly this year.
Prof. John R. Frazier, head of the
department of drawing and painting.
was awarded the Dana gold medal for
the best four water colors exhibited at
the national water color exhibition at
the Philadelphia Academy of Fine
Arts.
annual exhibit Prof. W. NJ Hekking
was awarded a gold medal for his
painting. THE Old Homestead"
Prof. Charles S. SkiIton was invited
| to New York to hear the presentation
there of his new Indian suite for SYM
phony orchestra played by the Phil
harmonic orchestra of New York I'M
der direction of Joseph Stransky.
H. L. Butler, dean of the school of
, fine arts, was reelected president of
the association of State Music Teach
ers' associations.
The year 1921 broke all records for
attendance at the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art in New York City. There
We're 1913, sos visitors to that institu-
ton during the year. OF that number
$3.50 paid admission, giving the mu-
scum revenue of $13. 250.50.
This revenue, remarks commenta-
tor, when compared with the years
receipts of many moving picture
house or theater in the American me-
tropolis does not make a very convinc
ing case for New Yorks devotion to
art.
The writer of this column thinks
that there ara some things to be taken
into consideration before passing hasty
judgment on New York's population
for its apparent lack of appreciat ton
of art. To properly appreciate a fine
drawing, painting. or, statue requires
a deeper mental insight, a more com
pick play of emotions than that needed
to understand and enjoy the average
moving picture. Therefore the fact
that there are close to a million per-
sons in New Y ork who have the men
tai development to appreciate art to
the extent of making the physical eff
fort to purposely seek it out, is most
encoura ging.
Besides, some moving pictures are
works of art in the highest sense of
the word and are patroniZed by lovers
of art for the art that is in them.
Surely also the same thing may be
said for the legitimate drama and ITS
patrons
The fact also, that thousands paid
to see the movies where tens paid
to view the treasures of the Metro
politan Museum, is in no way dis
couraging. because the great bulk of
the people who go to the movies"
are employed during most of the hours
when the Metropolitan Museum of Art
is open to the public.
According to the Christian Science
Monitor, Hall Thorpe. an artist and
wood engraver of some note. living in
London, has evolved a rather success
full and novel scheme for disposing OF
the products of his industry and
genius.
He arranges his color prints suit
ably marked with the selling price,
in portfolios. The portfolios are then
sent to probable purchasers with
respectful request to examine the
prints at leisure, to take out those de-
sired, if any, and to return the port
folio to the owner together with
checque for the pictures bought.
The correspondent of the Monitor
suggests that the same scheme might
be carried out with drawings, etch-
ings, Autographs, water colors and
even small oil paintings.
Maynard Walker of Topeka worked
out a somewhat similar idea during
the holiday SEASON just passed. He
got out a booklet of original drawings
for Christmas cards. In the booklet
he offered for a suitable considera-
ton, to have a plate made from any
drawing that a purchaser might select
and TO superintend the printing of
cards from the plate.
Another portrait by Gilbert Stuart
iawas recently discovered in PhiladeI-
phia. 1t is of Theodocia Burr, daugh-
ter of Aaron Burr, who as everyone
knows, was vice president of the
United States under Thomas Jeffer-
son and during his term of office en-
volved in a questionable scheme for
founding an empire from Mexico and
some of the western territory of the
United States. and was tried for trea-
son and acquitted.
The portrait was painted in 1875,
when Miss Burr was l ? years old. She
is shown sitting by table covered
with books and holding a book in her