Richmond Palladium (Daily), 24 September 1904 — Page 6

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ART AND - -

ESTHER GRIFFIN UHITE

ARTISTS

Mr. GruelJe has the following- to say with reference to Mr. Connor's four canvases exhibited at Hermann's in Indianapolis and referred to several times here. Art lovers who were delighted with the work of Mr. Charles Connor, the Richmond artist, Avhose "Woodland Memories" (now the property of Mr. 0?car Henderson) was the delight of connoisseurs during the exhibit of Indiana art, will be glad to learn that the artist has almost regained his former health and is again painting with all his former vigor. Mr. Connor is distinctly original in his work and has a bold, rugged manner of painting which, while striking, is yet relined and full of poetic feeling for the tender and subtle in nature. His color sense is line and into lirh gray tones he touches color which

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latest works are now on exhibit at the Hermann galleries on IVunsylvania street. These latest efforts of this artist show all the charm which made his work the center of attraction in the 1 lousier artists. One of the pictures has been sold and others are being considered by art patrons of our city. The most important of this group is called ''The Last Days of Summer," represent a shallow stream whose calm waters reflect perfectly a dense mass of dark and rich colored foliage which forms a background. Clav, sand sky and figures form the component parts of the picture, which is filled with quaint, subtle beauty. The others, "A Summer Morning" and a "Meadow' Stream," have the same sincere tone that marks the work of the artist, who is destined to rank first among Indiana's artists..

Xakagawa, the Japanese artist, whose work has been seen in Richmond, is spending several weeks at the St. Louis Exposition to view the line art exibit, which is, perhaps, the greatest single exhibition of pictures ever held. Xakagawa spent the summer painting in the environs of Detroit instead of going to Urookville to stay with some of the members of the Indiana Group who have their summer homes at that place, Mr. Xakagawa being specially happy in marine subjects and having much opportunity to produce pictures of this class in Detroit. About the discussion of the absurdity of teaching little boys how to embroider doylies and work buttonholes in the public schools, while they merrily murder the King's English in every ot her breath the following, clipped from an exchange, is apropos as well as amusing: "They taught him to hemstitch and tbey taught him to sing, And how to make a basket out of va-

j negated string. i And how to fold a paper so be I , wouldn't hurt his thumb.

They taught a lot to Bertie, but he couldn't do a sum. They taught him how to mold a head of Hercules in clay, And how to tell the difference 'twixt the blue-bird and the jay, And how to sketch a horsic in a little picture frame, But strangely they forgot to teach him how to spell his name. Xow, Bertie's pa was cranky, and he Avent one day to find "What 'twas they did that made his son so backward in the mind. 'I don't want Bertie wrecked,' he said his temper far from -cool; 'I want him educated!" so he took him out of school." Father Vaughan in his address,

"The Light That Failed," delivered' at the Chautauqua, uttered some illu-j minating truths relative to our ranted public school system. People didn't like it very well; because the affairs of the Avorld are carried on!

mostly on the gigantic game of bluff and pretense and bare, naked, unadorned truth is. always distasteful to the manipulators of the strings that pull. Among other things he aid you couldn't make everybody alike. Everybody couldn't do everything. Human clay which was designed to bo modeled into certain forms, crumbled and fell apart when made into figures inimical to the material from which they were fashioned. Fine la

dies could not be metamorphosed from cooks and second girls. Bankers couldn't be made out of persons Avhose capacities were for a different order of activity. It is equally as ridiculous to try to make every child, an artist or a musician. Artists, like ! poets, arc born, not made. A lot of people, however, are the victims of their own self deception. Xot content to merely understand and enjoy, they must attempt to execute. Hence the horrors of the amteur musician, the monstrosities in so-called "art" of the tyro, the execrable short story served up in the cheap publications. Oh, anybody can write. Just irive "em ink and paper aplenty.' . Ainbody ean paint just hand 'em a brtih and canvas.' And it is only for the lack of more vialins and pianos that we have not move I'asraninies- and Rubensteins. It is impossible that an attempt to do a good thing with an inadequate, if not wholly bad, result, can tend to a higher plane of appreciation or intelligence. It is the complacency of the average American, a complacency fostered by our present public school system, his smug self satisfaction in thinking himself able to do anything to which he may turn his hand, that contentment with superficiality, and a superficiality that is unconscious, that makes for the poverty of a true artistic atmosphere in this country. At present the schools are turning out material that ends in a half baked diletantieism, so far as any degree of culture is concerned, a condition far worse than absolute ignorance. Mr. William A. McCord' the well know ii Cincinnati artist, expects to spend a week or so in October in i painting around Richmond. The value of training, and also (he element of luck, play a very major part in athletics, the latter especially in games of the less strenuous nature. It is not to be supposed that because Travis, the amateur golf champion of the United States until recently, and present amateur champion of Great Britain, was defeated by II. Chandler Egan at the national tournament a few weeks ago, that Egan is the superior in skill or in the technique of the game. Travis

may be, and is undoubtedly regarded, as the better golfer of the twro. Travis was champion for a longer period than any other person who erer held that honor, baring a lapse of one year Avhen it was wrested from him by a brilliant spurt on the part of some participant in the national games, but going to Traris again the year following. Outside of Traris this country has never had a champion who continued as such for more than one season. It is one of the peculiar tilings in the history of golf that very few champions retain their honors after the first season, several falling down lament ly and unexplainably the following year. Travis is without doubt one of the greatest golfers known to the game, lie went to England and there won out against adverse conditions in the way of climate and public favor, took the liquors easily in the very home of the canny Scot whoi regards himself as the sponsor as well as the originator of the game. He returns to this country and in a few weeks is defeated by a very narrow margin by the Western champion, who plays brilliant golf, but not the golf orer which Traris triumphed across the water. It is luck, pure and simple, in this instance. The value of .training was shown on the local links a few weeks since when the best golf player in Richmond, and one of the best in the State Mr. Dudley Elmer, was defeated by the present champion of the state. Mr. Elmer qualified in one of the best scores made in the preliminary round, but went down before the superior endurance of Cox against whesm he played in the second round, Mr. Elmer not having been away from his business for a whole day's practice for month's, and not being in condition in consequence, in addition tr ill-health. The strenuous round of the links is far heavier tax on vital itv than the mere onlooker or one ignorant of the game, has any possible conception, and the defeat of Elmer is to be attributed to this phase of the situation. He is still one of the best exponents of the game of golf in Indiana.

the campaign banner are dwelt upon at length.' The crude and nerve-racking combinations of colors, the ugliness of the setting of the features of the candidates for honors high in the nation, the execrable poles to which all this is attached come in for rigorous deiiMnciation. In France, says this writes-, such an emblem would be mobbed, but not so in this country. Here is another showing of the really defective natures of our educational system. If the youngsters of the country were forming any definite fdeas as to the true significance of Art, such anachronisms woulud not be. Every marching dub would know better. Every ward have its campaign artist. Why not ? If art is taught in tUe schools it ouht to make for something besides a risnt to the Garfield Building once a rear.

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