The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-20
ANNUAL EXHIBIT
OF HOOSIER ART
SALON LAUDED
Wives of Legislators Act as
HoSteSSeS Today at
Spink-ArmS.
BY JOHN w. THOMPSON
Times STAFF Writer

Wives of Indiana Senate and
House of Representatives members
will be hosteSSes this afternoon at
the indianapolis exhibition of the
Hoosier Art Salon brought here
from Chicago and now on view at
the Spink-ArmS Hotel. Assisting
the wives of the legislators will be
members of the Indiana Poetry
Society.
Tonight Washington High School
students under the direction {
Miss Elsie Andrews, art instructor,
will be the official hosts. Miss An
drews is an exchange teacher, COM
ing here from Farnham, England,
and replacing Miss Frances Failing,
who is teaching in the English
school.
The exhibition opened Sunday
afternoon with a reception, having
as honor guests city and state off,
Gals and their wives.
Trend Toward CHEEKY Subjects
There is a noticeable trend to-
ward more brilliant and CHEEKY sub
ject matter in the paintings and the
majority of the 66 artists repre-
sented have painted autumnal land
scapes, Sunlit field or colorful still
lifeS in contrast to the depression
influence" of gloomy, despairing
subjects apparent during the last
two years.
Of major interest to indianapolis
art patrons is the large canvas by
Will Harvey Hunt, 24-year-old local
artist, which captured the $500 John
G. Shaffer prize at the Chicago
Salon. The decorative effe C
achieved by the artist through the
use of unnatural poses for the four
figures in the paintings and the
Subdued color tone is strikingly in
dividualistic.
The Wayman Adams portraits of
John T. McCutcheon and John G.
Shaffer are indicative of the Adams
genius for exceptional portraiture.
He has used his usual conservative
backgrounds with strong emphasis
upon the face.
Pictures by Woolsey
Three strongly outstanding pic
lures are the ones done by Carl
Woolsey. The workmanship, color
and delicacy of design are not eX-
celled in the entire show. His
Autumn Tapestry" a vast land
scape, is marvellous in the repro
duction of fall haze as it hangs over
multi-colored valley. The intimacy
with which the artist has painted
almost literally every leaf on the
trees presents a result which is
breath-taking. His Toward the
Moon" is another beautiful oil,
showing a cool, hard, unearthly
hillside splashed with moonlight.
THE Coast of Devon" by Charles
Sneed Williams, is unusual in its
combination of deep green and fair
ly heavy blue as the main colors.
c. Curry Bohm has two interest
ing paintings, Storm in the Smok-
les" an impreSsionistic coloration
of the atmosphere of the mountains
and west Snow" In the former
the artist has touched on a realm
of enchanting possibility, the art OF
suggestion. He has applied masses
small and large, of the hazy hill
colors in such a way as to be Strik-
ingly lovely.
Carolyn Bradley Represented
Carolyn Bradley is represented
with Tropical Sum- one of her well
known red-roofed pictures which
captures well the heavy air of the
tropics.
The broad Interpretation which
Lyla Marshall Harcoff has given in
her Gala Rhythms," a magnified
painting of the blossom itself, is eX-
ceedingly entertaining.
Ann Hasselmans Gray Day
Boats" has as subject a small sail
boat at anchor, the entire picture
being done in grayish tint.
Leota Williams Loop has bril-
liant still life, "Autumn's Offering, "
and w. Louderbeck's Spanish