Evening star., 1935-09-15

these answers would have a chart
giving a very reliable cross section Of
young American thought. He would
find that the great majority of these
young artists we're inspired by the
life around them, themselves (qUlte
a number of self-portraits) and their
possessions, their fellow students,
views from their bed room or class
room windows. their "own back yards"
sports or outdoor activities, the COM
try, domestic animals and wild life.
But within these classiflcations
there is endless variety One boy OBJ
serves the basement stairs in his own
home and produces a careful realistic
rendering in pencil mo. So in the
exhibition. by Harry Bertoia of De-
troit. which won second prize for pen
Gil drawings. Another boy names
something equally objective as his
inspiration, 'gladioluses," but pro-
duces a design so abstract that no one
would suspect the flower, in these
flame shaped lines and masses in
grayed pastel colors, which won third
George Bellows Award for John Broc-
tawik of Schenectady (No. in the
exhibition.
MANY students gave the titles of
books and moving pictures as
their inspiration; in most instances
the books are classics, and the mov-
ing pictures outstanding, not trashy,
films: Roman Mythology" "Chau-
GERS Prologue" made into a batik). -.
Alice in Wonderland" RIP Van
Wrinkle" "PelleaS ct Mellisande. ""An-
thony Adverse" Wallace Beery in
Viva Villa" Frederic March as 'Dr.
Jekyll and Mr.. HYDE" the laSt-men-
toned made into a very ingenious
surface design.
Imagination" is given as the source
of many student-artiSt' work, which
includes landscapes, race-horSes and
other subjects as realistically treated
as though they had been drawn from
life. Again, Imagination" includes
exquiSitely fanciful Woods in Fairy
land" macabre Nightmares" hu-
morouS whimSicalities such as "The
Circus" mo. 603), which boasts such
animals and such performers as never
were seen in three rings, yet which
miraculously captures the thrilling
essence of all circuSes. Andrew
Christensen, the San Antonio boy who
etched this, was awarded one of the
scholarships for his portfolio of draw
ings and designs.
There are, of course, few works
which reveal their creators absorp-
tion in contemporary problems. Rob-
ert Wallace of Lexington, KY, whose
admitted source of inspiration was
thinking of the tramps on the
road" made a charming little block
| print of a man tramping the high
way. with a sunset landscape in the
distance CNo. 53e). "Toilers Of the
Drouth," mo. 262) by a Kansas boy.
Reed Crandall, who won a prize Tor
oil painting, and also scholarship,
depicts four young farmers watering
their cabbages with buckets. May
DAY." water color, by Simon Greco
of st. Louis, represents a Com
munist demonstration I witnessed on
May l." 1t appears to have been
very peaceful, with policeman in
attendance, and young woman ora
tor pausing to pull up her stocking.
The most imaginative work in this
class appears to be that Of an Ali
quippa, Pa, boy of central European
origin, Charles Bohac Smehyl, who
won a prize for oil painting; entitled
Depression" mo. 42D. 1t shows
workers in regiments. outside the por-
tails of a great industrial plant, with
a giant mechanical figure obviously
symbolizing chronological unemploy-
ment) towering above the closed gates
and turning them back with ges-
ture Of denial.
Unemployment" by Jacob Lam
dau. Philadelphia, received first prize
lin pencil drawing. This l7-year-oN