The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-15
The Good Old Colonial Days Return to
Interest Art Fans This Summer Week

Inc Spirit OF colonial times may
be experienced this week on your
guest of beautiful things in this city.
Colonial atmosphere is being re-
fiected this week at the John Heron
Art Institute by a summer exhibit
ton of Colonial portraits.
These pictures. painted by artists
in the time of George and Martha
Washington, are being exhibited in
Gallery x. These portraits are from
the Enrich galleries in New York.
The early painters represented are
Henry Bonbridge, John Singleton
Copley, Ralph Earl, Robert Field,
Chester Harding, Henry Inman,
John Neagle, Charles Wilson Peale,
Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, John
Trumbull, Samuel l.. Waldo, Ben
1amin West and John Wollaston.
In commenting on the exhibit, j.
Arthur MacLean, director of the
Heron Art Institute. says:
There are seventeen paintings all
by artists well known in their day.
Sully, Neagle, Earl, Peale, Field and
Harding are all of them contempt
raries of the more famous men rep
resented-Copley. West, Stuart and
Trumbull. BENJAMIN West was the
Pennsylvania quacker who became
the favorite OF King George, deco
rated the Royal Chapel at Windsor,
painted royalties and statesmen, re-
ligious scenes and battle pictures
and finally became the president OF
the British Royal Academy.
There is a portrait by Copley,
who also became famous in Lon
don. painter of princes and lords
and many of the leaders in London
society. There are two portraits by
Gilbert Stuart, best Known of them
all to us today because of his por-
traits of our first President and
Martha Washington; also one by
Trumbull. copies of whose large Sc.
riest OF scenes from American his
tory are in early history books.
"In this exhibition one may look
upon the faces of some Of the art
lists painted by themselves, upon ac-
tor, preacher and housewife. There
are two colonial children, a justice
of the Supreme Court and fine por-
trait OF John Dickinson, author of
the slogan. United We Stand, Di-
vided We Fall.
There is also a portrait OF James
Fox. painted by West when In Eng
land. and the most familiar and In
teresting of all. the face Of Benja-
min Franklin"
A special exhibition OF Indianapo-
lis-owned paintings win be shown in
Gallery XI during July and August.
II includes paintings lent by several
Indianapolis owners and a number
from the permanent collection Of the
art institute which have not been
shown for some time.
The entrance gallery Of the mu-
scum, which is reserved for Euro
pean art. has been partially rein
stalled with material which has
either not been on exhibitionu for
some time or has only recently been
acquired and is therefore shown in
the gallery for the first time. The
latest additions to the gallery are
two new companion cases Of Euro
pean porcelain. which have been
installed Immediately to the right
and left of tho doorway leading from
the gallery into the loggia. Here one
may see some of the choicest exam
Piles in the museum's collection Of
European pottery and porcelain. and
a number of loans from Indianapolis
owners.
English engravings. chiefly Of the
eighteent hcentury, are to be on ex-
hibition at the Art Institute during
the summer months. The subjects
are primarily portraits Of figure
groups and give something Of the
spirit Of the eighteenth century in
England, even as the two Colonial
exhibitions shown in galleries I and
X illustrate our early American
period Of somewhat the same time.