The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-18
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east wall OF the east rOoil' IePi S'S4ie9
Kansas. It is an heroic size female
figure-a beautiful girl in seAi CLASSIC
costume and laurel wreath str-
mounting her head. She sits in a
typical Kansas landscape and MONS
aloft a pair of scales nicely balanced
with two crystal globes exactly ai.ke'
It is said that the balanced scales
represent the industrial court. On
the ground at her feet a broken DOT
tie and an empty demijon, also a dis
carded whip and broken shackie are
Indicative of the states triumphant
fight against rum and slavery In
the foreground is a pile OF indian
corn. and in the near background Il
a shock of wheat, the chief products
~ Kansas. The state seal is also de-
picted in the form of a bronze medal
lion on a black iron shield.
The other painting is on the west
wall of the west room. 1t is large
oouare picture and shows prairie
schooner and band OF pioneers men,
women and children. making their
way across a prairie landscape OF
wonderful beauty.
In both the coloring and in the COM
position of these pictures Mr.. stone
is to be congratulated. The state OF
Kansas should be proud to know that
It includes among its native sons an
artist of his talent and ability
zone of the most interesting ex-
hibftsons in New FORK at the Present
time is that of the 'Childrens School
a. the BOURGEOIS gallery. Here are
drawings by children from four to
eleven Years of age, and they are
worth seeing, not as curloslues put
"a ACCOMPLISHMENTS Margaret Naum-
berg. director of the school. says thaO
the reason the children nave zone
what they have. is because they nave
GIN
the pencil to depict just what they
felt .mpelled to portray not what they
were told to dc.
The highest price yet paid for any
modern American painting is said TO
he the $4,000 for Winslow Homers
.'Tcight Bells which was purchased
the other day by a 9rivate collector in
New York CITY. Wluslow Homer is
famous painter of marine scenes.
s.F,irht Bells" was formerly the prop
erty of +. T. Stote1Dury OF PhIla-
delphia who bought it for S4'foV.
According to Robert Harshe the
new director of the Chicago Art IN
stitute, the United States has been
having yearly to foreign countries the
hinge sum of $4,000, 100000 for Indus
trial art products, furniture, wall pa
per. jewelry. metal work, textiles PIC
ture frames, etc.
These articles that we buy are
r1oanufa ctured from about S2'OOO,OOO'-
600 worth of raw products when we
annually send abroad. Thus We
nav Europe and Asia an annual tri-
butte of nearly 00,OoO.OOO for DO
ing work that could and should be
done in America.
The reason for this abnormal con-
dition is that the industrial art schooi
Dra cticalIy does not exist in the United
# n
than 100000 inhabitants, and that
country contains many of them, Is
without an industrial art school. Eng
land has thirty-five industrial art
schools and zoe schools OIL design
serving as feeders for them. There
are also many industrial art schools
in France.
In the United States there are only
two: one at Providence, Rhode Island,
which was founded, and is admins
tered by the state and one at Phila-
delphid.
JAS a result of Americas back
vvardness in fostering industrial art.
great numbers of manufacturers eager
10 improve the style and beauty of
their products. have no thoroly
trained designers and craftsmen at
their command"
Mr.. Harshe desires to approach the
solution of this large and important
problem in a business-like way. He
is urging the manufacturers of the
middle west into whose products art
enters, to make the Chicago Art In
stitute the home of a group of indus
try scholarships which shall provide
a means OF training native designers.
For example, let manufacturer
of a given product involving the use
OF art. establish a fellowship in the
above mentioned school to which he
may send worthy and talented en-
ployes whom the Art Institute will in
time return to him as competent de-
signers and craftsmen. imbued with
the proper feeling, vision, and spirit
not onlys to carry on the work for
which they were trained but to adj
vance the state of their art both to the
gain Of their employer and to the
profit OF the world at large
Mr.. Harmless proposition briefly is,
you furnish US the money to help
equip the school of your particular
craft. and we will provide the tutors
and instruct the pupils you send to us.
Couldn't and shouldn't such a move
ment be started in all of the large
cities of the United States where ar
ticles requiring art and beauty in
their manufacture are produced?
Gainsborough's famous Blue Boy"
considered by many critics to be the
greatest portrait ever painted, arrived
IN NC y I 0Th a lew udNS ago On lllG
liner Savoie. The painting which will
be exhibited soon by its new owner.
Henry +. Huntington. has been
cleaned of innumerable coats of var
pish which clouded the rich blue
which made it a sensation when 1t
first came from the hands of the
artist.
Exhibited in the National Galleries
OF England before leaving that coun-
try, It was admired by unprecedented
crowds which viewed it almost with
reverence. The price paid for It is
reported to have been $7SO.OOO.
Huntington bought it a few months
ago from the Duveen Brothers. art
collectors and dealers of London and
New York. The Duveens obtained It
from the Duke of Westminster. in
whose famil.- it has been a treasured
possession for several generations.
The exceedingly high war tax on
art imposed by the British govern
ment has caused the sale of this pic
ture and many others to persons living
outside Great Britain during the last
couple Of years.