Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1952 — Page 29

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FALL LANDSCAPE—Mrs. Donald M. Mattison. Woodstock Dr, points fram her front lawn.

BACKYARD INSPIRATION—Mrs. Harry E. Blasingham, Brendonwood, begins a canvas to capture autumn flowers in her garden. ;

Souvenirs From Orient Sacrificed

By KATY ATKINS

HEN Mr. and Mrs. George Brentlinger of the Willowbrook Apartments pack up and leave for residence in Wash-

ington soon, their crates and boxes will be fewer in number than usual since they are disposing of part of their collection of oriental objects. Mr. Brentlinger sérved as financial adviser on Gen. MacArthur's staff in Tokyo where ‘he was joined by his wife and daughter, Jean. Jean had the interesting experience of - attending the college there that was set up under the Armed Forces for dependents. When the family left Tokoyo, Jean's Japanese friends presented her with a silk scarf, printed with a Rising Sun and autographed by all of them.

Signatures include that of Nano, president of the Dal Ichi Insurance Co., whose building was taken, over for MacArihur's headquarters, and of Mrs. Nomura, daughter-in-law of Baron Nomura of banking fame. This custom stems from the practice of Japanese soldiers carrying into battle scarves autographed by allsmembers of their families.

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AMONG THE INTERESTING and beautiful objects the Brentling¥rs have decided to part with are cloisonne vases and boxes, exquisite pale colored kimonas, beautiful obis in 4-yard lengths and some metal saucers dating from the Han dynasty. Among Mr. Brentlinger's souvenirs is a piece of concrete from a bridge over which the atom bomb burst. It was given to him by the Mayor of Hiroshima, This has been old home week for several former Hoosiers. Ellen and John Fishback of Penland, N. C., and Venice, Fla., visited Mr. and Mrs. Grover Turner. They came to Indianapolis

from Brown County where John spoke at the meeting of the Indiana Weavers Guild. North Carolina has also loaned us Katy Munk who is here from Tryon to stay with her aunt and uncle, Ma and Mrs. Russell Byers, while closing her house for a permanent move to the South. Mary Elizabeth Benham and her children are at the Buckingham dividing themaelves between Mr. and Mrs. Hal Benham and Mrs. Jesse Fletcher. Mary Elizabeth is house hunting preparatory to the day, not too far off, when Hal finishes his stint in the Navy and they are free to settle here again. . ' Gen. Sanford H. Wadhams of Torrington, Conn. arrived last Thursday to be with Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Johnson.

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AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE Thursday afternoon Mr. and Mrs, Austin H. Brown left for New York, sailing on the Coronia Friday for three weeks in Paris. Mrs. Brown is the former Mrs. Mary Bishop Taylor. . It was a pleasant innovation to have the first Junior League meeting of the season in the Highland Golf and Country Club. Among the most interesting reports was that of the Golden Age Club for people over 60 which was given by Punch Harris. It seems that a small basket’ is avallable for voluntary contributions from the members and that when they found that quite a sizable sum hadAccumulated, they voted to use it for elderly people less fortunate than themselves. The League president, Jeannette Danner, remarked. that while the League always starts projects to benefit others, it is unusual for the group it is helping to turn at once to doing something for still more people. > ° %

MR. AND MRS. JULIAN BOBBS came down from Northport last week to Heir cottage at Culver for a family reunion with children and grandchildren. . Yesterday they were in Kendalllville for the marriage of Janet and William Raynor. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, William Macomber and the granddajghter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Elder Adams.

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CONTEMPLATION—Mrs. Edwin A. Schulz Jr, 721 Sherwood

Dr.; sets up'a tripod by Holliday Park lagoon.

Fall Is ‘Palettable’ For Feminine Painters

By AGNES H. OSTROM

Times Women's Editor HEN Hoosier air first crisps and leaves begin turning from summer’s green to autumn’s goldenrod yellow, pumpkin orange and apple red, painters are lured

outside. Outdoor Indiana becomes as irresistible to the artist be he professional or aspiring amateur as Rome appears to be to many American painters since World War II. Even before Jack Frost tries his hand at decorating the landscape local limners bring out their brushes, tubes, palé tes and easels to capture the year's September song on canvas,

” w ” TO MANY fall's coming means: a Brown County trek. There's a variagce of opinion here. Others think that section of the state has been overdone. But to those with the true soul of a craftsman the

, haunting melody of Indian sum-

mer and harvest time echoes an out-of-doors studio. Landscapes may not even be their forte but preserving with a pigment is. And something about the beauty of the season suggests its own subject. For women who mix water color, oil or gouache between fulltime careers as wives, mothers or grandmothers—as the ladies in today’s gallery—fall has far more allurg than a

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” » Ed MRS. DONALD M. MATTISON, Woodstock Dr. has been said to “paint as meticulously as she dresses.” As the wife of Herron Art School's well known director (as a bride she accompanied her Prix de Rome winner husband abroad), her home is. filled with prints and books on art. While she’s absorbed all of it, this young grandmother has developed a distinctive technique all her own. Lately, she's been winning prizes with elaborate still lifes in a tapestry pattern. She favors water color and gouache, the opaque oil which gives such a rich feeling of texture to her work.

” » ” “YOU don't paint as tightly with it as you do water colors,” she remarks. ; However, her water color “Arrangement” won the Louis Schwitzer prize at the Indiana Centennial State Fair. She loves to paint “on the spot,” now uses a limited paJette. As many or more canvases are discarded as saved. She averages about “six good ones a year.” A native of Newark, N. J, Mrs. Mattison loves the little hills and water, White River, near her Hoosier home. It reminds her of New England. The front lawn, a bridge near Woodstock Club and the drive along the river are all favorite spots. Dressed in what she calls her painting outfit, a blue denim Jumper and white blouse, “maybe a couple of bananas stuck in my pocket,” she'll algo set out in the “dirty Pontiac” for the tumbledown houses she's discovered in sold sections of town.

- = ~ THE FLOWER GARDEN back <of a brick and frame home in Brendonwood, or her friend's blossoms primarily provide inspiration for Mrs. Harry E. Blasingham, another grandHother, noted for her floral still fe. Painting “all my life,” she's exhibited in the Hoosier Art Salon since 1931, Carl Graf, Wayman Adams, Elliott O'Hara and Francis Chapin all had a hand in her early training. Unexpected callers may find her working at an upstairs window “against the light” where she views both the garden and the top of Brendonwood’s lovely trees. She'll probably still have on her apron. Or she thay

browse up and down Fall Creek just north of home. » » » WHILE navigation has been slower since a recent fall netted a broken leg, Mrs. Blasingham hasn't let that stop her. With Topsy, the Blasingham dog as a constant companion (at least since her injury) she’s composing the last of summer's zinnias. Sitting in a dining room corner with the ribbon hanging from the frame is “Nostalgia,” a prize winner at this year's fair show. One of the Indiana Artists Club official family and hard worker, this painter is now busy with arrangements for the club's annual exhibition Sept. 30 in Ayres’ Auditorium. Galleries open from 2 to 5 p. m. Tea is from 3 to 4:30 p. m. ” ” n “IT DOESN'T take much to make a picture,” comments Mrs. J. J. Woods.. She's also a former pupil of Wayman Adams as well as William Forsyth, Paul Hadley and Clifton Wheeler, old Herron's teachers, and Charles Hawthorne, In the alley back of her 3227 N. Pennsylvania St. residence are old barns and carriage houses, now painted dark green and housing modern cars, which whet her painting appetite, Though she’s won prizes all her life—including Tri Kappa's award for the best artist under 25 years in an early Chicago Hoosier Salon, Mrs. Woods still studies. In fact the dark circles under her eyes, she explains, are because she’s rushing to catch up with housework and finish redecorating her upstairs studio after six weeks ‘in Cape Cod and Provincetown. From 9 to 5 daily she studied with portrait artist Jerry Farnsworth in his East Coast school “painting eyes in and out.” Then, until dark, she painted outdoor landscapes. One popular subject was the famous North Truro, Mass, lighthouse, This winter she'll be busy putting that practice to use with her portrait commissions in oil and water color. A painting of Ferdinand Schaefer hangs in her 11. The Mark Honeywell collection in Wabash boasts one of her largest water colors, a 22"x30" canvas,

~ o » HOLLIDAY PARK is the favorite retreat of Mrs Edwin A. Schulz Jr. who currently heads the Indianapolis Art Student League. It's only a short dis1aice from home, 721 Sherwood yr, A newer entry in the local art field and “coming up fast,” according to art circle authorities, she’s “dabbled” for seven years. Oil is her medium, She works with still lifes but portraits she's being commissioned now —are her first love. She's sold both landscapes and still lifes.

» n ~ MRS, SCHULZ and her husband enjoy .the same hobby. Sunday afternoons they join the league class in Holliday House where Gordon Fiscus, Herron instructor, teaches. This summer they did landscapes (“lots of boats”) in Rockport and Gloucester under Gianni Cilfone, Chicago, Mrs. Schultz paints realistically. In May her “Turkey in the Straw” took the popular vote for still life at the Michianni Show in South Bend. And here's a tip. If you're planning to get in touch with this quartet soon don't be surprised if the telephone just rings off the wall. It's fall in Hooeierland ‘and they're probably outdoors painting for they are all popular exhibitors in state shows,

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SCENIC BARNS—Mrs. J. J. Woods mixes oils back of her 3227 N. Peansylvagia St. home.

Indiana DAR to Convene Sept. 30

HE 52d annual conference of the Indiana Daughters of the American Revolution will be in the Hotel Lincoln, Sept. 30-Oct. 2. Mrs, Herbert R. Hill,

state regent, has chosen as the conference theme, “Let us stand steadfast in our liberties, for the cause of. freedom is the cause of God.” The conference will: open in the Travertine Room at 1:45 p. m., Sept. 30. Mrs. 8. L. McKinney, Huntingburg, state chaplain, will be in charge of memorial services in the afternoon. A formal processional will be at 8 p. m. that night in the Lincoln Room with state and national officers escorted by pages. Mrs, A. E. Bowers, Ft. Wayne, North District director, will give the official welcome. Chapters of that district will be hostesses for the conference. Mrs. H. H. Wolf, Muncie, state vice regent, will give the response. > > & MRS. ROSCOE O'BYRNE, Brookville, honorary president general, and Mrs. Furel Burns, North Manchester, representing the honorary state regents of Indiana, will give greetings. The state regent’s reception will follow the program. District breakfasts will be at 7:30 a. m,, Oect. 1. The session that day will open at 9:30 a. m. for reports of state officers and chairmen of

state committees. Three luncheons will hold sway at 12:30 p. m. Mrs. John Biel, Terre Haute, state registrar and state membership chairman, will preside over a group meeting. The junior membership committee luncheon will be presided over by Mrs. Robert Simpers, Crawfordsville. The Children of the American Revolution luncheon will be headed by Mrs. Leigh Freed, North Manchester, Indiana DAR senior president. The annual conference banquet will be held in the Travertine Room at Lj o'clock that night. * o TWO SPECIAL breakfasts are scheduled for 7:30 a. m., Oct. 2. Mrs, George Kolb, press relations, state chairman, will preside at the press relations breakfast, Mrs. L. B. Lucas, Connersville, state chairman of radio and television committee, will preside over a breakfast for those representatives. { The final session will open at 9:30 a. m., Oct. 2, The annual pre-conference meeting of the DAR state hoard will be at 2 p. m., Sept. 20 with a dinner meeting at 6:30 p. m. in the Lincoln Room. Mrs. Robert Shrader, New Albany, will preside. Mrs. Hill will give a luncheon at noon Sept. 30, honoring Mrs. Wayne Cory, Veedersburg, a candidate for national historian general subject to election next April,

Morning Musicale Will Open Season

ATE OF THE initial meeting, names of thew officers and committee ap-

pointments for the coming

vear have been announced by the Patroness Club.

Mrs. 8. E. Fenstermaker, Carmel, will be hostess at the first gathering, a 10 a. m. musical program, to be followed by a coffee hour, on Oct. 8, ton,

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ident, will be assisted this year by Mrs. Jessie Thieband Clapp, vice president; Mrs. J. M, Smith, and Mrs. Magtgomery, treasurer,

COMMITTEES include MesLouis Friermood, C, L. Kline and and Miss Wright, program; Mesdames F. E. Glass, James Costin, Gertrude Gutelius, Marion HamilAlbert Hirschman, ard Howard, C. G. Jacquart,

Andrew Ross and Jessie Ruth, social. J Mesdames Locke Bracken, W. H. Gibbs, Charles Maxwell, Athia Malott Martin, K. 8. " Means and Henry Oakes, telephone; Mrs. Maxwell Droke, courtesy; Mrs. M. P. Speakman, publicity; Mrs. ~ Fenstermaker, historian; Mrs. Norman Schneider, parliamentarian; Mrs, Al-

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