The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-03

sky during a rain storm. I have
seen EN-. Not just out of the sky
but just SO near the cistern. Those
were the days before we had GER
tain water companies. But here is
this baby created in green under
the head of Sculpture in the
round-f1gure or composition" That
sounds mighty terrible.
Why so terrible? G. Warner Will
lian1s of Chicago has taken his
dream of a rain with a turtle, your
dream and mine, and he has created
it into art.
It stands so very green and so
commanding in the sculpture divi-
sion of so-called alleged art at times
at the Indiana state fair.
It Means Stop
And yet when l entered this side
show of art on exhibit, I realized
that Williams has dreamed a dream
that will live. It stopped me when
1 went into the exhibit.
Of course I "hate' all of these
so-called exhibits that take a popu-
lar vote of all that is there. DO l?
Not at all, it makes us all go there.
But this little youngster, all in
green, holding that baby turtle in
fear, triumph. disgust and love,
made me stand still.
[ anchored myself in front Of this
green pasture of a great youthful
adventure. I wanted to know more
and SO I landed in front Of a young
man holding a catalog. He told me
that he was E. H. .Sprague. mean
ing he told me that the man who
was in charge was out for supper
his. name l asked after many min
utes of work and queStions.)
And Sprague went to work with
me. He told from the prize list that
Williams won First" with his boy in
green with the turtle under the
head of sculpture"
Take some time away from the
horse, the hot dog men, the midway
with its mighty cheap atmosphere
of entertainment and go for a few
minutes at least and see a baby
boy in green and a turtle in green
the surprise, the beauty of con-
quest.
Williams has caught the beauty
of everlasting adventure. Don't
miss it. 1 have never met this man.
The green" caught my eye and
then became a lovely thing when I
entered the art section of the state
fair. He got a first.
Seeing a Red Rocker
Then look what Mary Anderson
Of Jacksonville, Ind, did with a
dream of childhood. She did not
use a turtle in oil. She used a
mighty pretty girl baby in a red
rocker with a book, and a doll in a
chair.
The most worthy doctors of award
gave this one a third. But the LAD
with the green turtle and the baby
in the red rocking chair-they stop
the grand parade of rapid people
who pass this circus of dabbing art.
But the baby girl in the red chair
and the boy in green with the turtle
will stop you dead. Look at this
Mary Anderson in the so-called wise
guide Section 25O5-Figure, hui
man."
This is only a third, sprague
proved to me. But people are stop
ping even on a third. The people
like this red rocker picture.
Even when Sprague and myself
examined this painting, people
moved toward the red rocker. Even
when we left the little girl and the
red rocker. they stayed and looked.
A third" and a first" stops the
crowds because both talk a common
language of childhood life.
There are other names that have
beauty and some not so much in the
various sections. The people do not
care for the blue, the red or the
white in art. They find what will
hold their own great and glorious
imagination.
There is a man who reflects many
conditions of poses in life-oil, water
color and so and so.
.Sprague on my question took me