The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-12

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A scheme of interior decoration ex-
ceedingly well conceived and carried
out is that in the Church of the AS
sumption on West Eighth avenue OPP
posite the city library. The work
was done about year ago by the
Conrad Schmidt studios of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
The walls and ceiling of the entire
church have BEN painted a delicate
| cream color. which is relieved by
bands and squares of stencil work in
a quiet, soft shade of gray, also by
painted sixteen colored panels or me-
dallions, each medallion containing
emblems or objects indicative of some
incident connected with Christ's Pas
sion. Such as a chalice and some
heads of wheat. bringing to mind the
institution of The Lords Supper. A
pillar and some whips. the flagellation
| or scourging, the crown of thorns and
the superscription, etc.
The cOloring in the walls is also
pleasingly broken by the colored win
dows. These latter are inferior to
the windows in Grace cathedral. but
| nevertheless they are quite pleasing
in their gray setting
In the chancel, or rather the shall
low apse, containing the high altar,
are painted small medallions emblem
attic of the Eucharist, and there is
more gold work there than in the
nave. The paintings and some of the
decorative bands are made to repre-
| sent mosaic, and at the distance from
which they are seen it is practically
impossible to tell them from the real
thing.
L. A. Gillette, superintendent of the
art department of the Kansas Free
fair in Topeka. September IL to 49,. is
rapidly shaping his plans for the COM
ing exhibit, and was enabled to give
the writer some definite and interest
ing information, during a conversatio
held a few days ago.
An important feature of the exhibit
ton will be a lecture by George NJ.
Stone, in the Peoples Pavilion, on
Thursday afternoon, September Ii,
between the hours of two and five.
In this lecture Mr.. Stone will select
representative pictures from the ex-
will explain why these pictures are
good. He will do this in such a way
that the average listener may form an
intelligent idea as to what constitutes
good art, and get valuable information
which would help him in selecting
suitable pictures for his home. Mr..
Stone is a profound student and ex-
cellent judge of art, and his opinions
may be accepted as authoritative.
Another innovation in the art de-
partment of the fair this year, one
that will please many exhibitors, is
that there will be three art judges in
stead of the usual one. Two members
of this judging committee have al
ready been selected, but the third, who
is to be a person from outside of To-
peka, has not yet been chosen. Ne
gotiations ara under way however
There will be two educational ex-
hibits from the American Federation
of Art this year. One of these is a
collection of work in color and design
done by students of Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, Now York; the Rhode
Island Institute of Design; the school
of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts;
and the Pennsylvania Museum school
of Industrial Art, at Philadelphia.
The other exhibit is collection of
photographs and plans for town beau
tifying and planning. 1t will include
examples of the. best work done in
cities and towns all over the world.
1t is too early to tell much about
who will exhibit at the fair this year
or who will not Exhibitors have q
habit of not announcing their plans
until the last minute. However the
high school at Alma, Kansas, has an
nounced an intention of sending in
an exhibit of art toys made by pupils
of the school.
1t is to be hoped that the art de-
partment of the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college will send an exhibit of
designs for fabrics, dress decora ton
and wall paper, equal or superior to
last years wonderful exhibition. Miss
Ara minta Holman is in charge of the
K. S. A. c. art department.
The Kansas State university art de-
partment also always contributes fine
exhibits of high class work.
George NJ. Stone has so far made
no declaration of his intentions, he
sometimes exhibits at the fair but
rarely completes for premiums. Mrs.
L. C. Hodge, one of the most talented
artists in Topeka, or in Kansas for
that matter, is spending the summer
painting with the art colony at La
guna Beach, California. The writer
believes there is no doubt but she will
have some new and beautiful work at
the fair this year. Miss Marian Peers,
Mrs. Katherine Perkins. Birger Sand
zen and Mrs. Gladys Nelson Smith of
Minneapolis, Kansas, are all included
among those whose good work we
should all justly hope to see in the
Kansas Free fair art exhibit this fall.
Mr.. Gillette expects to exhibit some
of his landscape paintings, tho he
probably will not enter them in COM
petition for premiums.
1t is announced that the American
Federation of Art. thru the coopera-
ton of the General Federation of
Women's clubs, is proposing to reissue
next autumn. a valuable little hand
book on Art in Our Country, originally
compiled and edited in 1906 and 1908
by the chairman of the art committee