Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1916 — CENTURY OF INDIANA ART IN GREAT EXHIBIT [ARTICLE]

CENTURY OF INDIANA ART IN GREAT EXHIBIT

A feature of the Indiana Centenary celebration at Indianapolis will be an exhibit of Hoosier fine and domestic art products covering the century, and the John Herron Art institute will keep the centenary exhibit open to the public during the entire month of Oc tober. Mrs. Albert Rabb is chairman of the committee on literature and has planned some novel ideas for showing Indiana's progress in this direction. Harold Haven Brown, director of the institute, by appeal to the people oi the state, is gathering a wonderful collection of the beautiful, the antique, the curious in the way of. art. All over Indiana families are ransacking attics, trunks and closets for Hoosier arts and articles of human Interest, dating from the earliest days to a quarter century ago. The display is to be in three departments. One section will be devoted to the fine arts' in painting and sculpture, another to historic portraits and prints, the object being to show in historical sequence the more noted men and women of the state’s history; a third section will include household utensils of historic and human interest, as well as articles of the professions and tools of the trades. _ _