The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-17
BY MRS. C. o. ROBINSON
Times Hobby Editor

BY MRS. C. o. ROBINSON
Times Hobby Editor
DURING September the John
- Heron Art museum offers
an unusual treat 70 Indiana art
lovers in the international Water
Color exhibit which has been hung
in the east and west galleries of
the second floor. This exhibit is
a section Of the annual inter-
national exhibit which for thir-
teen years has been assembled IN
Chicago. and which includes the
work of many of the foremost
American and foreign artists.
After being displayed at the Art
Institute of Chicago, the exhibit
is divided into representative Sec
tions and sent on circuit to
museums all over the United
States. This arrangement gives
it a wider circulation since many
of the smaller museums can not
accommodate it in its entirety.
As the exhibit has not been
shown here for several years the
museum officers are pleased to
welcome it and feel that Wilbur
d. Peat, director. was very for
tunate in being able to arrange 1t
for September when vacation time
is ended and the club life of the
city is beginning.
The museum curator, Miss
Anna Hasselman, particularly is
interested in the exhibition as she
is a well known water color art
ist of marked ability and under
her entertaining and able inter
probation. the paintings evince a
depth and meaning not seen by
the unframed but interested
observer.
The American section in the
east gallery is distinguished by its
infinite variety. Mainly the paint
ings are the work of young mod
ems with F. c. Frieske and Leon
Knoll among the better known
artists invited to exhibit.
Although a native of Michigan,
MI. Frieske has lived in Paris for
many years and is a Chevalier Of
the Legion of Honor. He was a
pupil of Whistler and today is one
Of the leading American impress
sionists. His work is represented
in the local museums permanent
collection by an oil painting, oil
being his usual medium, and in
the present water color exhibit
his highly decorative flower study
is irresistible.
THE work of Leon Knoll, a
Il New York artist, is familiar
to local museum visitors as it has
been shown at the museum many
times. He has won many medals
and honors including the 1880
purchase prize at the local mu-
scum. He is represented in the
water color exhibit by a pastel
drawing The Reclining Nude"
Several of the artists working
under the government employment
plan have presented the Amer
lean scene as they interpret it.
Their paintings are modern and
bold and a few are ineXcusably
drab.
City Homes" is a d%elineation of
three houses showing absolutely
no color except green window
shades. C~ontrasted with this gray
dullneSs Ethel Spears lively
"Diana's Court" faunts excep-
tional gayety.
1t pictures the rotunda of a
large public building and is done
in the manner Of the Tony Sarg
drawings. that is, looking down
upon the subject instead of up. as
in the usual perspective. Ethel
Spears is a young Chicago product
and one Of the few women repre-
Sented in the exhibition.
The Ballad Singer of Mention,
France" here shown is the work
of a native HooSier, Walt Louder
back, who was born in Valparaiso,
Ind. The French manner Of out
lining by shading TO a white edge,
has been used and the compost
ton as q whole is unique in treat
ment. 1t resembles a Chinese
painting, and the coloring is ex-
quisite.
England. France, Germany,
Spain. Switzerland, Russia, Italy.
Mexico. Poland. Guatemala and
Portugal are represented in the
foreign section which occupies the
west gallery.
Two paintings by Pueblo In
dians also are shown. "A Summer
Ceremony" by Awa-Tsireh, from
the private collection of DR.. Edgar
L. Hewett, and Indian Corn
Dance" by Quah All. They are
distinguished by the faithful por-
trayal of native Indian figures
and the brilliance and sparkle of
the coloringS.
GERMANY has the largest
" number OF entries and they
seem 10 be the most unique and
bizarre. particularly Man With a
Brief Case" by George GroSz and
and Cats" by HaeniSch. The