The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-03

This VIII give the Washburn college
art department two full time teachers
Mrs. L d. WhittemOre is the other
teacher. Mrs. Whittemore will con-
tinue to be the head of the art de-
partment. President Womer of
Washburn Is endeavoring to build up
a permanent art faculty for the col
lege and desires 10 place the art de-
partment on as firm and important a
footing as the departments of law and
music.
Several new courses will be added
TO the department next fall
Miss Anderson is reported to be eX-
ceptionalIy well fitted for her new
position She is . native OF North
Dakota but was educated in the east.
She holds bachelor of philosophy de-
gree from Brown University of Provi-
dence, Rhode Island. She is also a
graduate of the Rhode Island School
OF Design at Providence. She took
post graduate work under Charles W.
Hawthorne noted American landscape
painter at his summer school at Prov
incetown. Massachusetts,. and also
studied under Professor Watson of
Pratt institute. and Professor Ensign
of the Cleveland Art Institute at their
summer camp in the Berkshire hills
She has studied Illustrating and por-
trait painting with Howard f. Smith.
and clay modelling and sculpture por-
traiture with Albert Henry Atkins.
Miss Anderson will teach drawing,
painting and sculpture. and will have
classes in costume designing. having
taken special preparation in that field.
Miss Ruth Thompson. who has as
sisted Mrs Whittemore during the
present year. will go to st. Louis
shortly to take a position of stenog-
rapher and clerk in the art depart
ment of Washington University.
Mrs C s Lopez. Miss Marie Wit
wer. and Miss Marian Peers. all of
Topeka, Will continue next year as
fr7e in has
china painting. and art crafts. Three
new subjects will be added to the
arts and crafts course next term, they
are leather work, ivory and jeweled
work.
While Mrs. Whittemore was on her
recent trip to the east. she met Cor
nelius NJ Hoult. a former Topekan,
and obtained mis- permission to trans
fer the contents of the '.Hoult room
In Boswell hall to the Mulvane Art
Museum when the latter is completed
Mr. Hoult furnished an entire room in
Boswell hall and gave the Washburn
college art department a number of
valuable pictures.
Prominent among landscape paint
ers who are attracting world wide at
tention today. stands Victor Charreton,
the 4mpresSiOnist who halls from the
Auvergne district of central France
Charreton. now in middle life was
educated for the law. and for several
years followed a mildly successful ca
reer. as provincial attorney sud
denly he cast loose from his legal en-
Vironment and entered the field of art
Except for periods of study he has
kept away from the art life of Paris
with its fads and its isms. preferring
TO remain in the provinces. working
out ms own ideas undisturbed by the
fashions of the day.
He sent his first work to Paris for
exhibition purposes thru the urgent
advice of a friend. and il met with al
most immediate acceptance and favor
Since that time he has steadily grown
in popularity in the art world
The widely known DudensinE gal
leries of New York introduced Victor
Chafreton's work to America. There
have been three annual exhibitions of
his work at those galleries. She last
one was held during the Month of
April. 1922. The international
Studio for April contains an Instructive
article on Charreton. by Alan Bur
roughs- 1t is illustrated with six half
page cuts, one of them in color
Charreton belongs to the best type
of impressionists. one of that branch
of the school whose members painted
so beautifully and skillfully that their
work caused revolt and secession of
the radical and unstable element in
their ranks. On the other hand, he is