The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-14

| The Topeka. Art Guild mas strong
and attractive program outlined for
| the coming season. During the state
| teachers meeting there will be held at
| the Topeka high school, under aus
| pices of the Guild, an exhibition of
fthe work of Topeka artists. Much
| new work has been promised for this
! exhibition. Entries for the exhibition
| should be taken to Miss Marian Peers
| at the high school, not later than Oc-
| tober II, in order that everything may
I be complete by October 10, the day
on which the state teachers meeting
begins.
In November, the Topeka Art Guild
| will bring to Topeka, the federal gov
J ernment's collection Of World war
| portraits now on tour of the United
| States before being permanently in
| stalled at Washington, D. c., where
it will form the nucleus OF national
portrait gallery. The art Guild ex-
poets to make this exhibition free to
| the public, and is endeavoring to in
| tcrest several other local orga nizations
in sharing the expense or the enter
! prise. Steps have been taken to Sc
cure the halls of the State Memorial
| building as the place for holding the
| exhibition.
| This collection of pictures consists
of about thirty large oil paintings OF
the leading statesmen and military
and naval officers on the side of the
allies during late war. They were
painted by American artists of the
first rank, who were sent abroad by
the United States government to do
the work.
The Art Guild is negotiating for
several collections of paintings and
etchings to be shown in Topeka dur
ing the coming winter and spring.
Chief among these is an exhibition of
the work of the celebrated Taos art
colony of Taos New Mexico. The
members of this colony are unrivalled
as painters and delineators of west
ern scenery and the life of the Amer
lean aborigines.
During the summer just passed,
Mrs. L. D. Wh:ttemore of Topeka Wis
lifted Taos, and while there, secured
| the promise of an exhibit for To-
peka during the present season.
! Miss Marian Peers Instructor in
fine and applied art at the Topeka
high school was awarded a scholar
ship in the summer classes of the
Broadmoor Academy at Colorado
Springs. Miss Peers spent a part OF
the past summer studying at the
Broadmoor Academy, and the excel
lence of her work resulted in the hon
or which has been conferred upon her.
1t will be of interest to many To-
/ pekans to learn that the great Amerf-
can sculptor, Gutzon Borglum has ap-
| pointed his former pupil. Robert Mer-
reu Gage to be his first assistant in
the carving of the great Confederate
Civil war memorial on the granite face
of Stone Mountain near Atlanta.
| Georgia. This memorial will be the
largest and the most unique monu-
ment in the history of the world
| On the face of granite cliff 500
feet high are to be carved in high re-
lief. a marching army of Confederate
soldiers, infantry, cavalry and artil-
lery, including Lee, "StonewalP' Jack
son and other famous generals. The
figures are to be fifty feet high. and
the frieze which the marching army
forms. will be two thousand feet long,
and 400 feet above the park at the
mountains foot. The figures are to
be cut with pneumatic drills, by men
working in cages let down from the
top of the cliff.
| Into the side of the mountain. at its
| base, is to be cut a temple or hall of
fame. to be used by the Daughters OF
the Confederacy for the storing o.
| Confederate war records and memo
| rails This stupendous work, which
| is backed by the Daughters of the
| Confederacy and all the otner Confed-
crate organizations. was designed by
Mr.. BorgIum. Preliminary work was
| commenced in 1913, but operations
were suspended during the World
war. Work has started anew. and il
| is not expected that the entire job viii
be comp ted until 1880
. Mr. Gage gave UP his position as
instructor in sculpture at the Kansas
CITY Art Institute. carry in the sum
and studio at STANFORD. Connection