The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
RED Center" ART
SHOW is POPULAR
WITH WORKERS
Exhibition to Continue
Until June 2

Art for the workers is the aim of
the art exhibition that is now being
conducted at the Workers Center,
1928 Union Square. This exhibition,
which has evoked ths highest praise
from many professional art critics,
is attracting a larger number of work
ers daily 1t contains some Of the
finest paintings and sculpture that
can be seen anywhere in the city.
Many Of the artists have interna-
tional regulations and some of the
pictures are said to be worth thou
sands of dollars.
Among the left wing artists rep
resented are Hugo GeIlert, Adolf
Wolff, Lydia Gibson and NJ Pass,
staff cartoonist of the Freiheit. Gel
iert and Wolff are both members of
the Art Workers Cooperative Stu
dio, under whose direction the ex-
hibition is being held
Paintings Of Saeeo, Eanzetti.
Among tho most interesting pic
lures in the exhibition is a series Of
symbolistic paintings on workingclass
themes by NJ Fleiss. One of these
shows the faces Of Sacco and Vanzetti
torn from the tree Of life by the CAPT
talist class. Another is symbols
tic picture of coal miners shaving in
a mine.
Lydia Gibson is represented by a
vivid picture entitled: women and
Children Ridden Down by Mounted
Police at a Picnic for The Aid Of the
Striking Miners, Western Pennsyl-
vania, Autumn of 1927"
Among the sculpture on view, in
addition to several futuristic pieces by
Adolf Wolff, there is also an IN
usually successful head of Carlo
Tresca, editor of Il Martello, by Nina
Harkavy, American artist.
The exhibition also contains ex-
amples of the work of Toshi Shimizu
and Kuniashi, the two great japanese
artists, Kandinsky, Carrie, Thomas
BGnton, the American -expressionist,
Burliuk, Efroyim, Alexander Brook,
N. Weisman, Dorothea Dreier and
Max Weber, considered by many the
outstanding American artist.
The exhibition, which is on the
sixth floor of the Workers Center, is
open daily from to p. m and from
to p. m. on Saturdays and Sun
days. Admission is 25 cents. All
those bringing a dollars worth of
Workers Center Bricks" will be adj
mitted free.
The exhibition will continue until
Saturday, June 2, the day when the
concert and dance will be held at the
Center, at which prominent working
class leaders will speak and the red,
revolutionary banner, now on view at
the Center, will be awarded to the
unit collecting the most money in the
drive for $4,000 to establish the
Workers Center The award will be
made by William w. Weinstone, dis
trict organizer of the Workers Com
munist) Party and secretary of the
board of directors of the Center.
Tickets for the affair are rs cents
and can be secured at 1928 Union
Square.
In the time that remains until the
concert Workers Party units are
urged to devote all their energies to
collecting campaign pledges and
raising their quotas
Camp TrOmbinick Aids.
The entire proceeds from Camp
Trombenick at Glenham, N. Y. dur
ing the week of May &c to June 4
will be devoted to the building fund
of the Workers Center, it was an
nounced last night by Max Marcus,
manager Of the camp. Attractive
programs are being arranged during
the entire period. The New York
office of the camp is at IL Union
Square, Room TIA.