The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-09
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MISS W Helen Anderson is 1ul time
assistant to Mrs. L. d. whittemore in
the Washbur1 college art department
this year.
Miss Anderson taught last year at
the Central College for Women. Lex
ington; Missouri. She is native of
North Dakota but was educated in the
east. She holds q bachelor of phil
osophy degree from Brown university.
Providence, Rhode Island, and is a
graduate of the Rhode Island School
of Design, at Providence. Miss An
derson has also taken courses in land
scape painting with Charles w. Haw-
thorne, one of Americas noted land
scape painters, and with Prof. Wat
son of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New
York, and Prof. Ensign of the Cleve-
land Art Institute. Cleveland, Ohio.
She studied illustrating and por
trait painting with Howard e. Smith,
and clay modelling and sculpture por-
traiture with Albert Henry Atkins.
SheSha also taken special instruction
in costume designing.
Miss Anderson. will teach drawing.
painting and sculpture, and will have
classes in costume designing.
Mrs c. S. Lopez, Miss Marie Wit
wer and Miss rfarian Peers, all of To-
peka, have been re-employed as part
time instructors in basketry. china
painting and art crafts. Three new
subjects have been added to the art
crafts course this year. They are
leather work, ivory work, and jewel
work.
Miss Ruth Thompson, who was Mrs.
Whittemore's assistant last year, has
accepted a position with the art de-
partment OF Washington, university,
st. Louis, Missouri.
Owing to the fact that most of the
members of the Mulvane Art Museum
building committee, have been out of
the city this summer, the plans for
that building have not yet been COM
pleted.
In addition to the exhibits for the
Kansas Free Fair art department re-
ported last week in this column, the
following were reported by Friday of
this week. Kansas State University !;
Paramount College, Wichita, Kansas.
the Topeka high school, Miss Marian
Peers, Topeka. and Mrs. L. C. Hodge,
Topeka.
The exhibits from the state univer-
sity will consist of paintings, drawings
and designs. The Topeka high school
exhibit should be especially interesting
to Topeka people as it will show them
the wonderful and practical work be-
ing done in our public schools, the
variety ana beauty of the work being
turned out, and the amount of talent
displayed by young people who are
mere beginners
The high school art department is
under the supervision of Miss Marian
Peers. The courses are shaped pri-
marty to develop good taste in the
average citizen, to instill a sound basic
knowledge of color and correct prin-
ciples of design, to teach propriety
and economy in the adornment of the
home and of The person, how to make
beautiful things out of simple cheap
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person to enjoy, appreciate and select
good pictures and other works of art.
The work being under the direction
of competent and discerning artist,
uncovers what latent talent Individual
pupils may possess and turns it into
the right channels for greater de-
velopment N more specialized schools.
The high school exhibit will include.
drawings, paintings, designs for vari-
Gus Kinds of work, batiks, clay mod
cling and jesse work.
Miss Peers spent six weeks this
painting at Broadmoor Art Academy.
Colorado Springs. Her instructors
were Everett Warner and Robert
Reid, two of Americas foremost ar
lists. After the close of her course
at the Broadmoor Academy. she spent
some time painting at the Grand Can
yon in Arizona, and at the Laguna
Beach Art Colony, near Los Angeles,
California. She has promised to ex-
hibit some of her new work at tho
fair. Miss Peers has the happy faculty
in her landscape work, of catching
and portraying those awe inspiring
and sublime qualities in nature. that
appeal to the true lover of the great
out of doors" She worked this sum-
mer in oil, pastel and opaque color.
Mrs. L. c. Hodge has returned to
Topeka after an all summer stay at
the Laguna Beach Art Colony. She
will exhibit some of her work done
this summer at the Free Fair. but re-
ports that many of her new pictures
are still in exhibitions on the Pacific
coast and cannot be obtained in time
for exhibition in Topeka at the present
time.
Inasnfuch as there is great interest
in civic planning and identifying at
present in the United States in gen.
eral and in Topeka in particular, a pa
per, "Landscape-1tS Use and Abuse
by James L. Greenieaf, which was
published in the September number Of
the American Magazine of Art. is es-
pecially recommended for reading to
all readers of this column who are
at all interested in civic or even in
rural beauty.
Mr.. Greenleaf clearly points out the
value of beautiful natural surround
lHgS, improved OF unlinproVeO, IN the
cultural advancement of mankind. He
also indicates in a brief tho clear
way, the differences between the rules
that should DE followed in laying out
a large park and a small city square.
Differences which he affirms are not
always clearly understood, and ignor-
ance of which lead to many incon-
gruities.
The method of grinding wood as
raw material for paper was first in
troduced into the United States in