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THE INDIANAPOLIS SUNDAY STAR, NOVEMBER 9, 1930. 13 IN THE WORLD OF ART ILIG -By Lucille E. MoreliQuse- 'WASHINGTON STl PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY PAINTINGS ARE SHOWN HERE hanging is particularly pleasing. In i the south gallery are thirty-one I paintings. Hayley Lever's Cornish MondayA Good "Old-Fashioned" pictures by artists such as Davios, Hassam, Kent and Lawson, we have so many other canvases by these painters that we can afford to part with one or two from each of them.

We are compelled to relinquish examples which are known to be particularly important and appropriate for other museums in order to make thing for us to do and that is to sell, and to choose for sale whatever, for one reason or another, does not fit perfectly into the unique character of the collection; or else. -1! immediate sales whatever can be spared because of our possession of other examples by And thus you have some of the l. I (kaCnhinsnnhl7inir nt 1 1. 1 1 pniiosophtzmg of Duncan the same artist which reveal the Phillips l'V'j- tri" I Doat scene is the largest canvas. It occupies the center of the south wall.

The mellow-toned paintings, by various artists, are ail hung in the east octagonal gallery, where an appropriate setting is formed from tho several pioces of old furniturt and an old grand piano. 40 Print From India Shown. Forty prints from India have been hung in the print room. The group is an exceedingly interesting one, and the quaint comments written by a young oriental, are almost as interesting. The small sculptures in white soap will not remain at the art institute as long as the other November exhibitions.

Several of the prize winners are Included in the group. Miss Virginia True, Indianapolis artist, who has been teaching in the art department of the University of Colorado at Boulder for about two years, has had a picture accepted for display in trie combined exhibition of the New York Water Color Club and the American Water Color Society. Painted in tempera and entitled "Boulder Canyon," the composition shows the rock walls of the canyon with the stream below. It was the first time Miss True had ever submitted any of hor water colors to the Eastern societies for display in the big annual show. It is pleasant to know that her picture was accepted, for she dues good work.

Important painting from the Phillips memorial gallery in Washington that have Been selected for exhibition and sale by the American Federation of Arts form one of several important November exhibitions at the John Herron art institute. The opportunity to see such a large number of paintings from so important a collection does not come often to Indianapolis. Visitors to Washington probably would include the Phillips gallery on the list of places to be visited. Why not come to a quick realization that, when choice things come to our home town from a place which we would visit if in another city, it behooves us to walk around the block or take the bus or street car and go at ance to the museum before the time for exhibition will have slipped by? There are many beautiful paintings In this exhibit which has been sent out from the Phillips collection. And there are also many paintings of real distinction.

They catch the sensitive eye the minute one enters the gallery. There is nothing garish to appeal to the untrained eye or to those who, by nature, have little appreciation of the beautiful. As a rule the colors are subdued or softly brilliant and one finds many of the lovely, pearly gray-toned harmonies that are restful to the eye and quieting to overwrought nerves. Quality Shown In Paintings. Many of the artists we have had here numbers of times in our an Sim same phase of his art.

"It is not at all a process of weeding out. It is simply a recognition of the fact that in these days of improved taste only good things sell and good things therefore must be sacrificed if and when sales are necessary. The Duveneck 'Music Master' is the acknowledged masterpiece of this American painter one of the greatest portraits of the nineteenth century. Why allow such a great work of art to pass into another museum or collection? Interested In Pictures of Past, "Because some other museum or collection would give it a more appropriate setting. Because the art is that of an old master and worthy of comparison with the greatest old masters, whereas our pictures are distinctly modern In technique.

For our specialized purpose of forming a collection of modern art and its sources, we happen to be more interested in pictures of a past more or less remote which anticipated modernity than in modern pictures, which are comparable to Rembrandt, Hals and Rubens. "In the case of some of the other mm niiicn ne seens 10 console himselfwho knows when he tears out from his heart of hearts memorial gallery a number of its choice treasures. Several Nations Are Represented. The names of artists represented in the exhibition a few of them having from three to four paintfcigs include American, French, Dutch and Italian painters. The list follows: Gifford Beal, Frank W.

Benson, Eugene Louis Boudin, Emil Carlsen, Charles S. Chapman, W. M. Chase, Emma Ciardi, Gustave Courbet, Arthur B. Davies, Paul Dougherty, Guy Pene DuBois, Frank Duveneck d'Es-pagnat, George Fuller, Walter Griffin, Albert Groll, Childe Hassam, Rockwell Kent, W.

L. Lathrop, Ernest Lawson, Henri LeSidener, Hay-ley Lever, G. Lorseau, Rene Menard; Jerome Myers, Hobart Nichols, Mar-jorie Phillips, W. L. Pieknell, Ca-mille Pissaro, Augustus Vincen; Tack, Helen Turner and Irving Wiles.

Comment will be made later on a number of the paintings. But let me urge you to visit the exhibition. The bn r-i i I -if frit nual exhibitions of American art. ROMANCE OF KNIGHTHOOD IN INDIANA. But there are a few, whose work is 115 New Fur-Trimmed Winter Coats Made to Sell Up to $69.50 7 just as fine, that have not before been represented here.

We may not always be able to say just exactly why each work impresses as having distinction, but more often than not it seems to be that elusive thing that one can not put one's finger on, that thing in paintings that we refer to as quality. Single out one picture and try to analyze what.it is that makes it somehow different from a similar subject that has been painted scores of times by other artists. Even if one were not informed that Duncan Phillips likes that art in which the artist has turned aside from the beaten path, one would guess it to be true from the pictures in his collection that have been selected from the larger collection to be circuited over the country. But why, you may ask, does a collector wish to send out from his gallery the choice things over which he has spent much time and thought as well as money in the collecting, to send them out, not merely as loans, with the assurance that they will come back to him, but to send them out with the express purpose of selling them? Practical Part of Plan and Purpose. This is what Duncan Phillips has 'i IKdltnr's Note The firat of this series of two article about a Vermilion connty farmer who Is a collector of arms and armor and In ulna self-taught craftsman, wan published In The Indianapolis Star on Friday.

The old-fashioned, soul-satisfying, 'T money-saving coat values like you haven't seen in 15 years BY LUCILLE K. MOREHOUSE. "My Grandfather Harris, a Kentucky farmer, could make things. He could make a wagon, a rifle, a darning needle, a plow. My father was only a farmer.

He could not make But he was naturally musi Of I i Copies of Successful Paris Coats Dressy fur trimmed styles and sports coats with belts, fitted-hitiher waistlines, unusual sleeves, new collars. Top (left) Wounded lion carved from brass Prt of a group to represent a lion hunt by an Assyrian King and (right) monster carved In relief as decoration on one side of a brass scabbard. Bottom represents a dog eager to attack a wounded lion. cal. I can not sinjr a sung, but I can make things." This came by way of introduction to the forebears and their native talent.

And then we delved into the mysteries of an ancient artcraft to which clings, in some dreamlike fashion, the romance of knight errantry and medieval days. We stood there, the three of U3, in the midst of confused piles of arms and armor that had increased after each purchase until the little frame house at the side of the woodland lane seemed at the very point of disgorgement. The three of us stood there: I with an improvised writing desk that made me feel like a country parson; Miss Bertha Lacey of Perrysville, the artist with to say on that very subject: "In selecting these paintings for exhibition and sale under auspices of the American Federation of Arts we are carrying out a practical part of what has always been our plan and purpose in the molding of the Phillips memorial gallery. It is a collection in the making. Changes are inevitable some the result of deliberate policy, and others of unforeseen exigency.

When we wish to acquire a picture desired for some special unit at a time when funds are not available we are confronted by the fact that the semiprivate and memorial character of our institution seems to make it unlikely that any friend of the collection will buy it for us. "No 'good angel' in the form of a fellow citizen has yet come to our assistance and made it possible for us to hold on to what we have and at the same time to purchase what we need. This blessing may yet be in store us. Some people feel that we deserve it. However, it is certain that we can not expect it.

Whenever funds must be raised at once and whenever we are under unusual financial strain there is only one signs, together with two prehistoric reptiles of the alligator type. The engraving also includes the initial letter inclosed within a wreath photograph you saw and whoso collection you read about in last Friday's Star, stood there ready to be interviewed and to bring each treasure for inspection. Wanted to See K.is Work. It must have been paying the 70- FURS of Exceptional Quality The fur collars and cuffs on many are worth the sale price Caracul, squirrel, lapin, wolf and other furs. Sizes 14 to 44 FOURTH FLOOR.

motif. A shield and a star also have their places in the engraved design on the scabbard. The engraving was no small task, and the work brought blistered hands. The fact that Mr. Harris is left-handed probably' worked to the a blunt pencil and a bit of paper.

a Diuni pencil ana a on or par. oId worker in raetals a compll. ready to make tracings from metal it! ment, in the face of thousands of surfaces so that we might have some pictures of original ornamental .7 designs; and, most important of All, in relation to the story that was to be set down on paper, the farmer-craftsman, himself, the Hooaier collector of arms and armor, whose -HIT 'ill -rl dollars' worth of skillfully wrought armor and swords, speara and guns, some of them dating back to a period four hundred and five hundred years ago, for us to tell him that it was his own work we wanted to know about first. While he was looking for the little cannon that represents his first work as craftsman the little muzzle-loading gun that turns a somersault when its charge of powder is ignited, instead of making the usual recoil at discharge he said that his grandfather, Charles Harris, was a Whig and that he and his Tory brothers waxed so warm in their political differences that they advantage of the blisters. He said that he worked so continuously with the engraving that his fingers would cramp and he would have to stop in order to rest them.

Carving brass into bas relief with a chisel, as if the metal were stone, resulted in a scries of individual figures, both animal and human, that comprise a group which represents a lion hunt by an Assyrian king 2,700 years ago. The part of the problem which is yet to be worked out is the selection of an appropriate material which shall serve as background and at the same time provide a surface upon which to fasten each individual piece of carved metal, so that the Exhibit of Sculptured Portraits Trace Art of Ancient Egypt to Present Day Clifton Wheeler Will Exhibit Recent Paintings of Rockies Latest Push-Up Wave AliHoliilt-Iy mi linger wnvliiK or water waving iieccHsary. Large, loose waves with ringlet ends. Also Round Curl, Mae and Personality. No kinks or peditions.

"When Long's peak was climbed," said Mr. Wheeler, "it meant camping overnight and then a steady climb through one day from 6 in the mornine until 3 in the after went separate ways, down in Kentucky, and never saw each other aft- $4.00 tsTis Extra noon. During the day's climb tre- erwaras. quent short rests were made. A hail Did the mixture of English and storm was encountered while on the Irish and Welsh blood have any- thing to do with bringing about the CumploU' Beauty Culture.

Service of All Kinds mtro Oil Wave, il Riley 5982' SPECIAL Mhtmpoo nn4 KM 7ft Manicure fto Mm ml Mir A rrh Mtr VAN HUNTER I'ermnnent Hnvlni Hyslrm KOOSI VI I I' KI.IXI. COK II I IMils end AHINfiTON and one in life rather than in death. A Ptolemaic portrait of about 100 B. C. A head of a Roman of intellectual type, a feminine head from Palmyra of the second century A.

and a most unusual head of a woman from Cyprus of the following century, combining Greek and Kgyptian influences, give a remarkable picture of the different styles developing in the eastern Mediterranean region in the Graeco-Roman period. Turning to European art of the Gothic age, there are some magnificent portraits to be enjoyed, for DeMotte has always specialized In the Gothic period and what is here offeied has that additional flavor of distinction which may be enjoyed even among degree:) of excellence. Superb (iroup I nearthed. The twelfth century head of a king recovered in the course of excavations in Paris, the supposed head of King Philip Augustus of the year 1,200, and the head of a man who may represent sn apostle pf a saint from the Cathedral of St. Denis (thirteenth century) form a superb group.

A head of the virgin of sbout 1300 from Verdun, another from Champagne 'fourteenth century), a portrait of Louis XI and a head of Henri II which came from the figure that once stood in a public square at Dijon, these examples reflect i.i I In the twinkling sT Clifton Wheeler had his first season of painting in the Rocky mountains when he went to Boulder, last June, to teach in the art department of the summer school in the University of Colorado, and remained there until the first of September His work in the summer school extended through a period of five weeks. Thu3 he had more than a month in which to give his entire attention to sketching in the mountains. As a matter of fact, he also had time to paint while teaching, as the hours in the school were not Jong. Tne annual exhibition of recent oil pai.itinss by Clifton Wheeler will open in the H. Lieber Company galleries tomorrow, and will afford an opportunity to see what the Hoo-sier landscape painter did on his outing in the West, as fourteen of the sixteen oil paintings that are to be displayed will be Rocky mountain pictures.

The largest canvas, "Town fnd Foothills," measures 36 by 40 inches. The second largest canvas, which has a greater horizontal dimension but a less one vertically, is entitled "Long's Peak." Sizes ranga from that of the largest canvas down to 18 by 24 inches. The two paintings that are not mountain scenes are Indiana landscapes, one painted in Brown county, the other painted along Williams creek at Martin Hugg's country place. Both are autumn scenes. Artist Climbs Peaks As Well As Painting Them.

The Berkshire hills, in Massachusetts, the Catskills in New York, and the Great Smokies between Tennessee and North Carolina have heretofore afforded inspiration to Mr. Wheeler for mountain landscape. But the Rockies, with their ruggedness and their sharp outlines, brought new oroblems to be worked out In moun ol an eye sTW ijWw n.mn urn y-r mi it BY IIKI.K.N COMSTOCK. NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (Universal Service) The comparative exhibition of sculptured portraits just opened at the galleries of DeMotte, and which will continue through the first part of December, is of the kind that this particular house may be trusted to do exceedingly well.

Not only are these sculptures possessed of qualities of distinction in their own right; they also trace the course of art from ancient Egypt to the present day. They are arranged in dramatic fashion, each within Its own black velvet niche, superbly lighted, so that they do hot conflict with each other. The eye is not confused with a whole gallery full of sculptures, each clamoring for immediate attention. The visitor passes in review before them one at a time and what has not yet been seen in more or less concealed until one stands immediately in front of this fair lady from Palmyra, that French king of the Gothic period, of yonder young Roman of the Ptolemaic era. In this way, the full effect of the individual quality of each portrait is felt.

Excellent Portraits on View. Amonf the twenty-four examples on view, ao many excellent pieces of their divers types are shown that it is necessary to follow personal preferences In order to select a few for special consideration. It is perhaps best to state by way of introduction that not all of these pieces arc portraits of known pemuns, nor are some of the early oni; necessarily intended to serve as portraits in the modern eenre. Several of the early examples may have originally served the purposes of architectural ornament, but there are always among these early sculptures whether Egyptian, Greek, Kornan or Oriental certain head which have the stamp of individuality that lifts them above similar works of their type. In them thf personal bearing, character and features of a definite Individual hav been caught whether consciously or unconsciously by the sculptor.

The srehale Greek head of young man of the end of the fourth century B. C. serves as a esse in point Here is a subject, closely related to many of the period, which shows the "archaic rid vet something personal and individual about it brings one close to the per. son who must have inspired the sculptor, r)eKes Much Personality. It may be known, on the other hand, that the Egyptlun head of the fifth dynasty represents a definite person.

It may have come from tomb and thus be a representation of the occupant. Yet it possesses so much more animation, so much more appreciation of a personality than ordinary Kgyptian sculpture destined for tomb purpose, that ene feels a contact with an actual individual group may be viewed as a whole. Ride In 3-Horse Chariot. The Assyrian king and his attendant ride in a chariot drawn by three horses. This group was adapted from a carving on a slab of marble in the British museum in London, it was explained by Mr.

Harris. Six animal figures, carved separately from brass, are as follows: three lions, one of them aroused, another one wounded and a third one a disinterested lioness; three dogs, one of which is racing ahead of the horses, another one going home with a broken leg, while the third dug is crouching and barking at the wounded lion. "I had to watch a dog barking at a hog to get the pose fur this dug which wants to fight the wounded lion but is afraid of its claws," explained Mr. Harris, "and it was no easy matter, for whenever the dog crouched down in a desirable pose he would suddenly change his position before I could make the drawing for my design." When he carved the wounded lion. Mr.

Harris tried to express the death agony and yet keep the claws curved as if wanting to fight. He worked with metal inlay, also, on the wounded lion, making a silver arrow, as if piercing the lion's side, while a drop of blood from the wound is represented with a small bit of cupper inlay. There are also several other pieces of bas relief work In brass. One of these is a group of four nude nymphs struggling with a satyr at the edge of a pool. Another baa relief represents the historic French character, Charlotte Corday, looking through the bars.

An example of armor madu by Mr. Harris consiBts of a shield of steel with brass inlay. The shield is about twenty inches in diameter. Its ornament is a formal design of seven leaves surrounded by seven stars, all in brass inlay. An Egyptian mythological god li intricately carved in brass.

There is also a lion, larger than those for the group, that is exquisitely carved, WOMAN TO EXPLORE LOST MYSTERY CITY WASHINGTON, Nov. Douglass, explorer and artist, plans to fly over the ancient mystery city of Angkor in Indo-China next year. After making etchings of some of the ruined temples lor the French colonial government now wants to explore further into the jungle-enveloped white temples from which the inhabitants so strangely disappeared. When making her sketches Miss Douglass goes to h-r work on the back of sn elephant. She sleeps in the government rett house, the only habitable building in Angkor, way up.

The mountain was wooueu up to about eleven thousand feet. Then the last three thousand feet or more meant climbing over solid rocks." Takes Auto Trip Part Way Up Mountain. "When we climbed James peak," continued Mr. Wheeler, "we went by automobiles to a point where there had been an old mine, a short distance below the timber line, and thus we were not so fagged out when we reached the top of the peak, which Is about thirteen thousand feet high. There was snow on James peak when we made the trip.

At the same time the party I was with climbed the peak from Boulder a Becond party from Denver climbed the opposite side of the mountain and we met at the top. In addition to climbing these two peaks with the club of mountain climbers, I went on other trips to old mining towns, where I made many sketches in colored crayons and in water colors. "As a rule I did not find much bright color, but found the more interesting masses of lights end darks. I liked the mountain subjects particularly well because of the beautiful pattern they afforded. Not many effects were vague, as in the Great Smokies, but they were quite positive and form always took on a definite character and a ruggedness that seemed to demand more vigor in the handling than had been necessary when painting in the New England moflntains and in the Great Smokies." There were nearly three thousand students in the different departments of the summer school in Colorado university.

Many of these came from Southern states. Texas alone sent between seven and eight hundred. The faculty in the summer school included "members from the regular faculties of Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Swarthmore, University of Chicago and many others of leading schools over the country. A few days ago Mr. Wheeler received a letter from Dean Milo Derham of the summer school of the University of Colorado, asking him to be a member of the teaching staff for the first half of the term next summer.

It is needless to say that the Hoosier artist sent a ready acceptance of the offer, whicli will bring about another season in the Rockies. Mr. Wheeler's wife, Hilah Drake Wheeler, and his daughter, Hilah Mary Wheeler, both were in Boulder the greater part of the summer and both painted landscapes in water color. The two are exhibiting their summer's work at the Women's Department Club during November. Twenty-eight small water colors have been hung.

feud? And did it have anything to do with implanting a love of weapons in the grandson, Edward E. Harris? It was near the present site of the little Indiana town, Boswell, that Edward E. Harris was born on March 27, 18G0. Five years later the father moved with his family to Vermilion county and settled near the Tree Spring farm. When Mr.

Harris called attention to the fact thaUhis mother was of French descent snd was a descendant of Stephen Gerard of Philadelphia, the artist added the information that Mrs. Harris was a beautifully poised and gracious mannered woman. The artist, by the way, was Miss pertha Lacey of Perrysville, who had taken me in her automobile to see the E. E. Harris collection of arms and armor.

Following the making of the little six-inch steel cannon, mounted on a block of maple wood, its type a muzzle loading gun with elevating' screw at the breech, there came about three years later, in 1898, a much larger gun, complete in every detail. The larger cannon weighs 100 pounds. It is about twenty inches long, with one-inch bore. Of the revolving, breech-loading type, its action is similar to that of the regulation cannon. It is a well-known object of interest, and boys drive many miles to see it.

Two-Handed Sword Masterpiece. A two-handed sword of state, measuring about five and a half feet from point to tip of hilt, may well be regarded as Mr. Harris's masterpiece. The aword is of Btecl, with bronze and brass ornaments. The ornamental design is a double-headed eagle, with original motifs engraved on the hilt.

The blade has an inlaid inscription in brass which includes the full name of the craftsman and the following orginal verse: Eefore my stroke, life with all Its and sorrow fle.l, While the soul to glory quickly sped. "It was more work to put my thought into verse than it was to make the sword," said Mr. Harris, "as I am a craftsman and not a poet." On the opposite side of the blade are engraved the words, "Liberator of the soul," and the dates 13.17 and 1919, the second being the date on which the sword was made, while the first date refers to the same year according to the Mohammedan system of time. The scabbard for this sword is made of brass. The animal designs in bas relief that ornament one side Include a dragon, two prehistoric dinosaurs, a rhinoceros and a black and brown bear.

On the other side the design is eniraved. Covering the surface are floral and leaf scroti de every movfc count! whet tain painting and at the same time- sculptural styles that prevailed between the Gothic period and the eighteenth century, and as both the former and the latter period were so prolltlc in sculpture the Intervening ccnturie. are perhaps apt to be overlooked. Huiidon's "Voltaire" and a portrait of Marie Antoinette attributed to Lemoyne are masterpieces of the courtly mariner and the intellectual style that flourished at the end of the reign of the Bourbons. COLORED LACE JACKET ENLIVENS DANCE DRESS PARIS Nov.

-A colored lace jacket over a white dance or dinner dress is one new way of enlivening sn evening. The dressmaker who promotes the idea shows a bright yellow long-sleeved jacket with a white georgette frock, with a spray of yellow tinted velvet gardenias running crosswise from the shoulder to the waistline in front. 1 A you utc Kitchr en Klenzer ana clean Ins worrisM Jh are toon ovai eigners with the special permission efl Italy May Restrict the King. Want Custom to Prevail. Diplomats' Choices they lurnisneu unusual opportunity to stress design and pattern in landscape composition.

When Clifton Wheeler was not painting mountains, he was climbing them. But he rarely did both at the same time. You are not to be told that, after he had climbed to the top of Long's peak, over fourecn thousand feet high, he turned to his colors and painted a panoramic scene. He did nothing of the sort. He lay back on the ground and panted (not painted), just the other mountain climbers did.

Mr. Wheeler end Clement Trucksess, former Indianapolis artist who has been on the Colorado university faculty for two or three years, were togother when they reached the top. Said one to the other, "Is it a fine view we have here?" Said the other, in reply, "I suppose, if we were in condition to appreciate it, the view would be very fine. Clement Trucksess belongs to the Colorado Mountain Club, as do other embcrs of the university faculty, Wheeler wns a guest of the club on several climbing and camping ex The new law was presented by tie minister of foreign affairs with tie statement that such a law was proposed because of the obvious necessity that wives of those who reprle-scnt Italy abroad bring up their children in true Italian spirit and according to Italian custom. Furthermore, Minister Grarftli pointed out that the wives of representatives of Italy abroad represent Italy in a social sense quite as mueh ROME, Nov.

8-( Universal Service) The Italian minister of foreign affairs, H. E. tiino Grandi, has just presented for discussion ta the Chamber of Deputies a law which will force all members of the Italian diplomatic corps and consular service who may marry after the passage of the law to marry only Italian women. This law will alter that already existing In that at present Italian diplomats and consuls could marry for TEMPERATURE OF STAR SURFACES MEASURED WASHINGTON'. Nov.

surface temperatures of stars range trom 1,000 degrees Fa ieit to 2,800 degrees. These are actual measurements made with a supersensitive thermocouple perfected by Dr. Edison Pettit and Dr, Beth B. ttichoison of Carnegie institution. as tneir nusbandg do in a diDlomat or official sense.

This Is the fundi mental reason for the modificatMm In tne law already in. effect. it.