Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-12
PAINTINGS BY LYME AND
 MYSTIC ARTISTS EXHIBITED

The opening meeting of the Norwich Art Students association was held Mon day afternoon in the Converse art build ing. A very brief business meeting was held. presided over by Mrs Charming Huntington. who spoke most apprecia- lively of the assistance and hearty CO., operation she had already received from the members of the association. and which she took as an earnest of their in terest and aid during the coming season Mrs Robert W. Perkins. the vice presi- dent and chairman of the program com mittee, then gave some account of the difficulties encountered and overcome in preparing the event of the day. viz. the exhibition in the gallery of a goodly nunLber of pictures from both the Lyme and Mystic exhibitions just closed
 The meeting then adjourned to the gall lery, where the pictures. most artistically arranged and hung by ". P. Habeeotte, were opened to the public, and where tea was served in the entrance hall by Mrs. Charming Huntington and Mrs. Henry T. Arnold. chairman of the house committee.
 Both the Lyme and Mystic exhibits are notable events in the world of art, and have grown in. importance yearly till now the Lyme exhibition is the most inpor- tant summer exhibition in the United States, and If is 8 great opportunity for the people of Norwich to have these pic lures brought directly to them and shown in their midst. and great credit is due to the art association which, through Mrs. Robert ". Perkins chairman of the pro- gram committee, assumed without hesita- | tion all the risks and expenses incident to | bringing the pictures here. and to Mrs Perkins assistants, Mrs. J. Dana Colt and Mrs. Edmund Perkins, and to Mir Ia1x -hr oil aV-xffc cad he work and attended to every detail
 In an exhibition of such uniform ex- cellence it Is almost invidious to single | out any special picture or artist. but wis. | itors to the collection will not fail tc notice the large painting of Noank har- bor by J. Joseph which hangs directly opposite the entrance Neither are they likely to overlook another and very diff. ferent picture of Noank in a. more moderr style by Peppino Mangravite slightly tS the left It Is an extremely interesting example of one of the new schools of art 1 though hardly recognizable to admirerI of Noank scenery as they are accustomed to see it. Peppino MangraYite has threi other pictures in different parts of tn, room equally remarkable and equalI! worthy of notice.
 Neither must we neglect The Feast O Lanterns by Thomas W. Ball, one of tn prominent members of the Lyme colony through whose personal appeals the art ists were finally persuaded to send thei
 pictures here. nor the charming bit o Old Lyme by Benjamin Eggleston in deli cate autumn coloring hanging over Mi
 Joseph's Noank. nor The Last Half Hou
 by Harry Hoffman, duck shooter watch
 ing for his game in the marshes lit n
 by the golden sunset light; nor tn
 charming studies by C. A. Thompson
 former head of the Norwich Art schoo
 nor the New England cottage by Henr
 Bill Selden, nor the lovely Spring of Wi
 S. Robinson.
 In fact. all the pictures, though for tn
 most part quiet New. England landscape
 and scenes familiar to us all, come up { a very unusual standard Of exceIIenc