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Show Twelfth Annual Art Show Opens -. . . : .. Critics viily Pleased With Present Exhibit; Vose Group Attractive IJY MAE HUNTINGTON With appropriate excercises in which the value of art in a materialistic world was emphasized by Superintendent II. A. Dixon, of the Proyo city schools, the twelfth annual National Na-tional Art Exhibit opened here last Friday. Those who seek the road to spiritual values, to goodness, good-ness, to beauty and to truth, will find it, Mr. Dixon declared. de-clared. He congratulated the students and the art committee com-mittee upon their continued success in putting over such a splendid project year after year. Artists and art critics who have visited the gallery since the opening are united in their opinion that this year's exhibit has not been excelled by those of previous years. While there are a few names of former prominent exhibitors missing miss-ing from the list, there are many hew ones of importance added to it- The last group of pictures to arrive ar-rive and be hung va.-s the Vone collection col-lection which was received late Thursday afternoon just in time to be hung before the opening program. pro-gram. This group consists of ten paintings, all the works of master painters, and is one of the most Important Im-portant features of the show. The largest and perhaps most valuable canvas of the jLrroup Is "The "Oak" by Charles H. Davis. It occupies, as it justly deserves, the most prominent position in the gallery, gal-lery, and is so full ol" charm and appeal that one returns to It again and again. While the old oak, teeming as it is with sentiment and feeling, Is the outstanding feature on the canvas, can-vas, our eye3 are lifted above that to the fleecy, lightly moving clodda in the sky above it. In them the artist verifies the statement of the critic that "tu Mr. Davis the clouds are living, moving personalities. Like the psaymist of old he looks upon the earth as new every morning, morn-ing, and he makes us feel the' freshness of the new creation and awakens in our hearts new hopes and greater aspirations. His clouds lift us out of the sordid and place our feet on firm ground bidding us go forth to labor with heads erect and eyes steady." Mr. Davis is recognized as One of (he greatest American artists and is often referred to as a "mod-eni "mod-eni old master." Another canvas of the Vose group that is attracting much attention at-tention is "Meditation" by Richard Rich-ard E. Miller. This artist is often classed with Frieseke because the two men treat light and color so similarly. To define how they differ dif-fer would mean to define the temperamental temp-eramental traits of each. Miller, however, seldom uses the arrested stroke and his colors are more subtle. To the joy and. gaiety of coloring in th3 background of this canvas, he adds human interest and warmth in the figure portrayed. Mr. Miller believes that "Art's mission mis-sion is not litL'-ary, the telling" of a story, but d' - orative, the conveying of a pleasant optical sensation.'' Very difffjrnt in color, arrangement, arrange-ment, and composition is Frederick A. Boslcy's painting "Peggy Reading Read-ing to Elizabeth." This picture was rrproduced wi the. Literary Digest for Dec. 6, 1930, and is typical of this artist's work. The figures are Mr. Bosley's -two daughters, and "their quiet contemplative figures in the midst of colorful surroundings surround-ings suggests something peculiarly Bostonian." Mr. Bosley studied In the school of Hie Boston Museum of Fine Arts under Edmund C. Tarbell, where he now holds a position as instructor instruct-or In advanced painting. Though he is a painter of interiors, and often uses his family os models, he occasionally oc-casionally turns to landscape. One of the most charmim? rarf- vases In the gallery is "The Bather" Bath-er" by Arthur B. Davies. In this painting Mr. Davies clearly demonstrates demon-strates his idealism, his tendency to paint dream people in a suggestive, rhythmic way which often makes them appear to move slowly across the canvas. It has been said of Mr. Davies that he puts more romance into his pictures than any other American artist. Abbott Graves in his painting "Old Nantucket" has shown unusual un-usual ability in the portraying of sunlight on a charming colonial portico located in an interesting old garden. Other contributions from thi Vose Gallery are: Alexander Hi Wyant, "Adirondack Solitude; Bet Foster, "Midsummer Pines"; A, Espoy, "Sunset, California Coast", and Robert C. Minor, "The Oaks." |