The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-16

Hoosier art during the past year.
The work is appropriately grouped.
In Gallery N are shown the oils
landscapes, portraits and still life,
but the proportion of landscapes Is
small. Never before have so few
trees and fields been seen in an In
diana annual. Landscape has come
to be regarded as the backbone of In
diana art, but this exhibition defies
tradition.
The new men, the new ideas seem
faced in other directions. Studio
stuff" appears to have occupied the
artists mind and he has not con-
cerned himself with his native hills
and wales, with the miracle of spring
and the gaudy professional Of au-
tumn.
The meagre showing Of landscapes
Is partly due, of course, to the fact
that the careers of three of the de
voted landscapists of the State have
been terminated by death. Otto
Stark, Theodore c. Steele, and J..
Otis Adams were for many years
conspicuous figures in the Indiana
Artists Exhibitions and their loss is
felt in this display.
The small bright bits of color that
line the walls in Gallery Y make this
pleasant place to linger. This is
the water color room, and with the
water colors are hung the prints and
drawings and also a few designs. In
this room, too. is one of the prize
winners. 1t is a portrait in oils but
the delicacy of it's coloring makes it
show to advantage among the water
colors.
It's title is Portrait: Mrs. Robert
E. Mcclure" and it was awarded
the Art Association prize. The artist
is Durr Friedley. who is a native
Hoosier, and spends part of each
year in Indianapolis executing por-
trait conclusions, but whose studio
the year round is in Paris, France,
where he is recognized as an Ameri-
can artist of rank. The Holcomb
prize went to a portrait entitled
Sandy Selfridge," by Hugh Poe.
Mr.. Poe is a young portrait painter
of much promise. His work is Wig
orous and convincing. Gallery XI
is devoted to decorative paintings,
sculpture, and the applied arts sec
ton of the exhibition.
The arrangement Is pleasing and
the various items, differing as they
do in character. yet complement one
another effectively.
The decorative paintings are strik-
ing and the number of excellent
pieces of sculpture is unusual. The
! Art Association Applied Arts first
prize was given to a display of pot.
terry by Jane Uhl of Evansville; the
second prize to collection of jewel
ry by Elsa Bachman. New York. The
Uhl pottery is delightful-jugs,
mugs, squat pitchers and little round
/ bean-pots.
Soft blues and greens and shining
brown glazes add beauty to the
quaintness OF, the contours. The
Bachman jewelry is dignified in pat
tern and exquisite in workmanship.
| Mrs. Kathryn Cherry of st. Louis,
/ Mr.. Theodode Pond, Director of The
Dayton (Ohio) Art Institute, and Mr..
Carl Lieber served on the jury of
awards.
The second annual exhibition of
Fifty Prints of the Year" has been
hung in Gallery II. The prints We're
selected by John Taylor Arms, Sec
rotary of the Brooklyn Society of
Etchers, and Ralph NJ. Pearson.
These men are experts in their field
and have used excellent judgment
in assembling this group of prints
, of various sorts and of divergent
points of view. Both ''moderns" and
conservatives" are included and
there are etchings, drypoints, aqua
tints, woodcuts. Autographs, and
| linoleum cuts. An amazing contrast
! is seen between such a print as
Woodstock Village" by Isami Dol
and House in Digby, Nova Scotia
by It. w. Mason. Mr.. Mason is a
conservative and has caught a truly
pictorial charm in his carefully
drawn rustic cottage under its great
spreading tree; while Mr.. Dol has
produced the most modern of limo
leum cuts from the most modern OF
inspirations - gable-roofed frame
houses, a jostling mass Of automo-
biiss and a telegraph pole. There
are other prints less marked in char.
acter and very pleasing in effect.
Indianapolis tlieaters today offer
Otis Skinner in Honor of the Fam.