The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16
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however. that the exhibits sent in
from the large schools of the state,
show that emphasis is still being laid
on the practical side of art. Art as
applied to the decoration of fabrics, of
clothing and of household furniture.
Also On drawing and painting of book
illustrations and cover designs, and on
poster work.
There was a strictly fine arts dis
play from these schools also, but 1t
was largely confined to still life studies
and cast drawings, tho the State Uni
versity display did contain few good
portrait studies in oil, however. The
Kansas City Art Institute had an IN
teresting exhibit of portrait work, but
it is not a Kansas school.
In the government pavilion was
collection Of architectural elevation
and perspective drawings which in de-
sign and execution were of quality
of which any school in the United
States could justly be proud Why
these drawings were not included in
the university's regular art exhibit,
is hard to understand
With the exception of the work of
Mrs. Gladys Nelson Smith, most of
the pictures done in oil and water
color. entered by private individuals,
were landscape or marines. Mrs
Hodges, Miss Peers and Miss White
more's work has already been de-
scribed, tho too much emphasis can
not be placed on its good quality.
There was also a charming little wa
ter color landscape by Miss Catharine
Cole of Topeka, which has not been
mentioned before, then also. L. A.
Gillette showed a group of four or
five landscapes painted in oil. Two
of these were notably good. They
were a picture of the Kansas avenue
Cs1I1 Il at in1d
park. and a Kansas landscape showing
a small house and some trees in the
middle of a large field. Mr.. Gillette's
pictures were not competing for pre-
miums. Miss Dolly Tilford's little pen
and pencil sketches were a surprise
to many of US, as we did not know
that she was an artist.
Among the out of town exhibitors
the work of Frank Arbuckle of Can
ton, Kansas, was the most notable.
Arbuckle is a veteran of the World
war, who took up the study of COM
mercial art in connection with the
government vocational training. , He
exhibited some exceedingly good pos
ter designs, book covers and decora-
alive pen drawings. The indications
are that he will succeed in his chosen
calling.
A feature of Kansas Free Fair art
exhibit deserving of special mention
is George NJ. Stones lecture on art.
given in the Peoples pavilion on
Thursday afternoon between the hours
of 2 and 4 o'clock. Mr.. Stone told
the public what to look for in a good
picture, and some of the reasons why
artists paint pictures To illustrate
his talk, he used examples selected
from the best work in the Free fair
art exhibit, letting his auditors know
the reasons why the judges selected
these pictures for the bestowal of
prizes.
Considering that this is the first
time L. A. Gillette has ever had charge
of an exhibition of pictures. he de-
serves great credit for the able man.
ner in which he has handled the ex-
hibition at the Kansas Free fair this
year.
It is reported that Robert Merrell
Gage, who this year resigned from the
faculty of the Kansas City Art Instf-
tue, went to New York city on Sep
TENDER Is to become first assistant to
the noted American sculptor, Gutson
Borglum. In speakinf of Mr. Gage
it is appropriate to say that the Phil
Billiard memorial, which he executed
last year at the order of the Topeka
Rotary club. is included by competent
judges. among the five best works of
sculpture produced in the United
States last year.
]. Ward Lockwood, native Kansas
artist and one time art director for
the Capper Publications in Topeka,
has returned to America, after eigh-
teen months of study in France.
He now has twenty of his paint
ings, done abroad, at the Findlay Art
Galleries in Kansas City, Missouri
The paintings are landscapes and
scenes in French towns and villages.
With the exception of three, they
were painted in or near Paris, and at
Brlare, Loiret, Avignon, Villeneuve--
les-Avignon and Chassis-sur Mer
Lockwood is a native of Atchison,
Kansas. He studied at the Kansas
State University from 1918 to 1915.
and made many of the athletic pos
ters that are still used by that insti-
tuition. Before coming to Topeka he
was commercial artist in Kansas
City, and at that time made the off
cial posters for the Kansas City Fash
ion Show.
Lockwood's style is of the more
conservative modern school, with a
careful technique that shows sincere
study of the old masters His pic
lures have the happy quality of sat
isfying the professional art critic and
at the same time of pleasing the
average person who looks at them.
In the display at the Findlay Cal
Ieries, his paintings of scenes in
Avignon are said to be particularly
of the public square at Cassis. Five
Trees Along the Loire" painted at
Briare, appears to be the most popular
with average visitors.
It is said that the New York Cam
era club now has on exhibition a group
of photographs, that distinctly dis
proves the often repeated assertion
that art cannot use a camera and
remain art
Critics say that the Camera clubs
exhibition contains some wonderful
pictures. The results have been
achieved thru profound knowledge
of posing, composition. lighting and
developing. They are the work of
persons who possess a consummate
knowledge Of the technique and the
limitations of photography coupled
with a keen artistic instinct
The New York Times magazine Sec
ton for September 10 contains excel
lent reproductions of two of these
mir That