The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-27

Mrs L. D. Whittemore Of the Wash
burn college art department, who rep
resented the various art organizations
of Topeka at the annual meeting OF
the American Federation of Art, held
at Washington, D. C., May y~~46 TO ~
returned home Monday morning She
reported a most interesting and de-
| lightfuI' trip.
on her way to Washington, Mrs.
Whittemore visited many of the most
prominent art centers or the Onlteo
! States in order to study the arch1-
lecture and arrangements OF their art
galleries and museums This was done
very largely to obtain ideas for use
! in designing the Mulvane Art Museum.
! which is to be erected on Washburn
college campus this coming tall.
In Chicago she visited the Chicago
/ Art Institute, the Field Museum, and
certain buildings of the University OF
Chicago.
Next she went to Milwaukee. where
| the Layton Art Gallery and the Art
waukse she went to Detroit and VS.
tied the Art Museums and the Arts
and Crafts building there.
In Toledo. ohio, . Mrs WhittemGre mt antire
United States in which there is a
general public interest in art and a
thoro proper appreciation of its value
to the community.
AT In6 CeleQTaI6Q COllSSS dl OOOA
Ohio, Mrs. Whittenore found a fine
art building having a combined gallery
and school.
In Cleveland, Ohio, where there is
a $150o,00O art museum, she re-
ceiyed most sympathetic and cour-
teous help from everybody in author
ity She says that in that city two
teachers are employed by the board
of education, to be constantly on
hand at the Art Museum for the pur-
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children who are sent there, and that
all children of the 5th, 9Th, 9TH and
| Sth grades are required to take the
prescribed art instruction before be-
/ ing allowed promotion.
youngstown, Ohio, has a perfect
gem of an art gallery. While Mrs.
Whittemore was at youngstown, the
United States governments recently
! completed collection of paintings of
World war heroes was on exhibition
there 1t will be remembered that
some time after the close of the war
the federal government sent several of
the country'S most prominent painters
abroad, with commissions to paint
portraits of the most prominent states
men and generals that were con-
nected with the Allied cause. These
paintings are eventually to form a
national portrait gallery located in
ing sent on tour of the United
States. Mrs. WhittemOre pronounces
them to be excellent works of art
! and expressed the hope that the col
: lection may be brought to Topeka this
fall, and exhibited to the people free
of charge.
Next after Youngstown, Ohio, Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania, was visited. Mrs.
Whittemore found the big interna-
tional exhibition of paintings under
way at the Carnegie Institute in that
/ place. After carefully comparing the
| American with the foreign work there
displayed, she believes that American
painters are doing better work than
| their foreign brothers at the present
| time. While in Pittsburgh, she also
heard a fine art lecture by Homer
Saint-Gaudens, son of the noted sculp-
| tor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Homer
Saint -Gaudens is a member of the art
faculty of the Carnegie Institute.
From Pittsburgh she went to New
| York city. and visited the Metropolis
| tan Museum of Fine Arts and the His
panic Museum. She also inspected
municipal ar. galleries at Montclair
and Newark, New Jersey.
! The American Federation of Arts
meeting was a wonderful affair."" said
Mrs. Whittemore. About 500 dele
| gates attended. They were from all