Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1948 — Page 11
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Family Tree of Ayres’ Hoosier Art
habit of hunting in packs as early as 1804 when Theodore C. Steele, William Forsyth, Richard B. Gruelle, Otto Stark and J. Ottis Adams exhibited their work in
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the connotation “Hoosier Group.” The label was thought up by Ramin Garland, a frankly realistic Folks” was a best seller at the time,
tures were exhibited in Chicago. On that occasion Mr. Garland - wrote and eirculated a curious pamphlet, other purpose in mind but to steer the cultural circles of his home town into the proper channels of appreciation. . In the course of it, he sald: “These artists have helped the people of Indiana to see the beauty in their " own landscape. , . . It marks anlE era in Western Art.”
land's observation was not lost on those who up until then, had often wondered why so many American artists had been blind to the beauty in their midst after returning they had received their training.
1895) Gelett Burgess startled the|
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Displayed in Parlors Of Denison Hotel By ANTON SCHERRER Indiana artists contracted the
e parlors of the Denison Hotel. Out of this experiment
novelist whose “Prairie
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bo itled "A Gift on Valentine's Dey by Lois Davis of Brownsburg is winner of the Mrs.
$25 prize in the Indiana Artists Club show opening Tuesday in the L. S. Ayres & Co. auditorium.
But I can tell you anyhow, 1'd rather see than be one.” Almost forgotten is the hisfact that the delicious
the art movement
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Role of Sunlight
The discovery that sunlight
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today’s piece is the revelation] es : tpveniad bub gr. Bur 58. scheduled to open next Puesday, “How “Kecepted AF btnitg more rey than nonsense of a high literary order, were originally designed to lampoan known as “Impressionism” — a trick of painting based on the scientific discovery artists) source of color is the sunlight which envelopes all things.
be an in the sense, at any rate, that it through Oct. 30. put an end to the portrayal of| For one thing; the Ayres’ show literary, psychological and sym- will reveal that modern painters bolical subjects. It was a pro- eliminate sentiment altogether, {Which doesn’t, for one moment, And to take its place, they sub- mean that they are less emostituted what might be summed tional than their ancestors. If up by the word “character.” To/inything, they are even more so, search for and to express the®frue {f by emotion we mean a pure character of a site, a human excitement of sensibility. being, or an object was of greater| importance
test against false idealism.
up until. then, “beauty.” Just. what has happened Hamlin Garland issued his
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were spilled to ridicule it at theinunciamento of 1804, will be paiparent—to some degree, at least ¢/—in the 16th annual exhibition ‘Indiana Artists Club
E22aroiapam AED but dane, 13: 90th. gel , floor, of ly hos -anti-intellectual movement; L. 78. Ayres.’ HE cotta RB eS whi
For another thing, the choice J of of “subjects may annoy you, in more significance to the Impres- which case it might be well to $ sionists than to look for what, consider the temper of our time.| ars had passed for The appreciation of the “ugly” {{to. use the curse word of the since traditionalists) is in reality a| pro- modern painter's reaction against
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‘ibation of public opinion is an offense to the artist. It's all tol?
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the banality of prettiness. It was bound to come, if for- no other
up with any longer. In which connection it may not be amiss to note the apparent contempt modern artists have for public opinion. Indeed, it now has reached the point that the appro.
the When artists stop blowing kisses in the direction of
work with self-criticism, some-
thing glorious will come out of] | Todlana art.
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Local, Peru Artists Win Top Awards
Entries by artists of Indianapolis and Peru, Ind, ate winners of the two $250 top awards in the 16th annual Indiana Artists'| Club show which will open in the 8. Ayres & Co. auditorium | this week and continue through Oct. 30. | The 101 pictures accepted for the show were judged yesterday. An invitational tea will open the show Tuesday .afternoon.
An entry entitled “Junk Boys” |
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
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TAKES $250 AWARD-—This painting, "Low Tide," by Donald Mattison of the John Herron Art School is one of the two $250 ! top award winners in the Indiana Artists Club Show, Ona hundred and one paintings have been accepted for the annual display,
by Robert Weaver, Peru, received the Joseph J. Daniels $250 prize. “Low Tide” by Donald Mattison of the John Herron Art School, Indianapolis, receives the $250 Robertine Daniels prize. $200 Prize Awarded A $200 prize awarded anonymously in memory of T., C. Steele was won by Edmund Brucker of the Herron Bchool, It is entitled “Industrial Indianapolis.”
Forming the jury of awards| were Francis Speight of the Pennaylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Robert Von (Neumann, Milwaukee, Wis., State Teachers” College, and Mrs. Katherine Davis, Ayres’ audi-
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\ se—Ceorge o , “Lost Trail” Hobart Creighton $100 prise—Bdmund Schilditnacht, 3464 Winthrop Ave, “Sums me." Three $100 prizes by Indiana Artists| Club, Inc.—~Thomas O'Loughlin, 419 East ith St, “Lana:” Harry A. Davis 8 burg, ‘Unloading Fish, Glocester,” Lawrence Trissel, Indianapolis,
scape. Mr and Mrs. Russell L.. White pr $50~Prancis Norris Streit, Belimore,; ¥Y., “Baldwin Har I Col. and Mrs. A. W. Herrington prize, 50—Roland D. Osborne, Richmond, “Center Street, UU 8. AY Edmund B. Ball prise, Davis, Brownsburg, “A Gift on Men
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$38—Lois Valentine's, Honorable mention—Jane Messick, 150 Bast 15th Bt, “Sunday Morntngr andi Harriet Jeffries, Carmel, “In Hi Country.”
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