Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1950 — Page 16

Ese ARE eh or

. fectious enthusiasm,

the air brush.

A. Reid Winsey, head of: the Deposw University art department, instructs a group in use of

Jane Greer; from

ing class.

junior

‘epartment Chairman Has Seen Enrollment Expand ‘rom'15 to 300 Students During His 15-Year Tenure

Center Emphasizes

Job Placement,

Few Pupils Go Into Serious Painting

By HENRY BI TLER, A. Reid Winsey has seen enrollment

GREENCASTLE, Nov. 23 University's art: department,

15 to some 300 students.

That's been in the 15 years of He's quick to explain that the larger figure does about 75

all. art majors. Only Center are majoring, and some 15 majors graduate each year, “We don’t dare many, because we. want to get 'em a job—place 'em,’ he says, with the benign enthusiasm that seems to energize the whole department. Most of the activity for the last has gone on in the Art Center on E. Washington St. in Greencastle, It's a large, gloomily stuccoed house that used to be the Barnaby residence. Now it's gradually being brightened up by touches like the vivid red front door, object of some kidding by members of other De-

take too

power-house

DePauw art

two vears

Pauw departments, which just about matches Mr. Winsey's car. . The car, another Winsey

trademark, is a fire-engine-red British “MG” roadster, so lowslung that driver and passenger sit deck-chair fashion. “It'll do 100.” Mr. Winsey says, with in*but > 1

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Fimes Stafl Writer head of DePauw there rise from

his DePauw teaching experience

not mean » students at the DePauw Art don't drive that fast Under the Art Center's porie-cochere the car is a brilliang token of

its owner's pres sence in * the

building. “The kids have a lot of fun with it,” Mr. Winsey BAYS. n n ” APPARENTLY the¥ids have had a iot of fun with art study ever since the department got under way in 1935 in a single basement room in -old, exchurch Meharry ‘Hall on the campus. . With only a few prints and other assorted items of equipment, Mr, Winsey and his stu-

dents struggled along until they inherited the amazing DePauw

building. known affectionately by students as “Termite Terrace.” That's a rambling, World War ‘I vintage, bharracks-type structure which has at one

point a down-up-sweep curve of roof and clapboard siding that makes it the Greencastle equiv-

alent of ‘the Leaning Tower of Pisa. ” n n BACK of the now pretty much disused Termite Terrace is a World War II quonset hut, where Mr. Winsey gives his lectures in -the- morning. The

morning lectures on theory of drawing precede ‘the “lab” ter. Mr. Winsey pretty seriously. He

his ideas

Afternoon sessions in the Art Centakes theory has put

about drawing into a

book just published by Prentice-* «

Hall. It comes out in two, edi tions: One, called “Free-Hand Drawing Manual,” in spiral hinding for student and a trade edition, called "Drawing Simplified.” which Times Artist J. Hugh O'Donnell reviewed on The Times Book Page for Nov. 4. “It took to write

use

me about eight vears this book. ‘It's a terrific job.. I made up my mind I'd never write another. But the reason I avrote it is 1 think. people aren't teaching drawing" any more. They don’t know how to draw.” Mr. Winsey explains. ~ n » A RECENT fine which accelerated the Windynamo day!” he kept saying), he gave me a demonstration of how he criticises and

ON day,

sey

autumn

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man beginners were doing

charcoal head-and-studies of the spotlighited model Miss Magnolia; = O wlent had

ioned, bright-eyed Miss Greer

in fetching formal -

reer Sf Career’, of

One

{ flawless-complex-

looking like "the tragic heroine

of “Sunset Boulevard.” under

Winsey cautioned

“Never play up the eyes,” Mr. him. “Never draw black lines all around the eyes. Don't put in all that detail until you have “the whole design. It's like putting the shutters on a house the house is finished.”

Ines

before Jusily erasing and re-draw-the sfudent’s essay so that Miss Greer in-charcoal on grey paper began to look surprisingly like Miss Greer in the flesh, he said, “The only teach is with them” a » ”

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Art Classes Popular Under Winsey's. Tutela

shoulder

Jane:

way. to | to sit down and work: |

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model for a draw- Art appreciation class is informal + + « Instructor Raymond Rrench (fifth from left) ieads discus-

sion of a painting.

Magnolia, O., is

But he admits he shouldn't complain. His wife, the former ‘Miss Hazel Schultz of Madison, Wisi; when he. met her. (They have a 14-year-old son, Peter).

mercial art, advertising, indus- Mr. “personally trial designing and teaching. ”n ”n » ___ THE WINSEY education has included undergrad and graduate study at the University of - Which 50

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Winsey has Of his linguistic powers, he conducted” art-student fours of “My French is the taxicab Europe (current fee: $1400 per variety. It gets by better.” student—for—an-83-day-trip;en——— tn op - students went last ONE REGRET is the way

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Academy, Yale University and In ’45-'46 he had a stimulat- their art careers after gradua- “I told her I'd”“flunk her if the Elmer Taflinger studio in ing tour of teaching duty in GF tion. “You get ‘em all trained . oR 80. 81 Indianapolis. universities in Shrivenham, and ready to go, and then some-- She didn’t marry me. So she Since 1933, barring war vears, England, and Biarritz, France. body marries em,” he says. didn’t have a chance.” : ! . —————————————— — r——

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