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Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 20 Jan 1922, p. 11

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Elisabeth Telling, s Portrait Etcher In: â€"=â€"^HExhftiit^lrlTR By JOSEPHINE BALLUFF LIZABETH Telling a [portrait etcher who ia now in Chicago, has an exhibir~oT^rypoInr and pencil portraits in the print room of the Art In- stitute. Miss Telling has created and -perfected a technique characteristic only to herself, and through toisl me- dium.she has"^ >en^able to attain enviable results. The drypotats are so infinitely more soft and-natural than the ordinary.' Thedelicate lines she employs in the etchings, jdX&cinr_ guishes them. ^ Included in this nineteen canvases was. painted dur- ing our occupation of France «nd* also at the sessions of the Peace Con- ference at Versailles. It Is hoped that orâ€"museum will-pur* chase, the entire collection, as it Is most complete. The •paintings were necessarily done very rapidly but they arc, nevertheless, a finished Set. I„ JTwo- ef' them, most lamiliar to u«r are portraits of Ignace Paderewski, painted while he attended the Con- ference in the capacity of Prime Minister for Poland. One is a Head, very accurately executed, and the other a full figure. There are poses also of Marechal Joff^^Qtwho is the only' personage represenwd^ by * two painting?. The tioggia^ptee ^cble Militaire-â€"his Paris ^teadquarters-^ â€":â€"traits" or many people of our own vic- inity, which makes it dounly interest- ing. -Among them are found likenes- ses of Mrâ€"Antonin Barthelemy, the _( French Consul, lovely Mrs^-Herbert ik^ fiyde, Mr. L. Clark Seelye, president ^- of Smith College, a ,study of parti- cular strength of Stuart Walker, the very handsome little John Borland, Ruth Boswbrth, Fannie, the extraor- ____dinarilylovely portrait of_th& grand- -----â€"daughter of Mr. andh~Mrs. Frederick T. West, M. Alfred Cortot, and the two beautiful children of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Field IIIâ€"Barbara and Marshall Field IV. _ :::x:Misa Telling was born in Milwau- kee and at one time was a student at the Art Institute. After leaving the^ Institute, she studied at various times with William P. Henderson, Charles Francis Browne and George Sense- _ ney, all of Chicago; M. Hevmann, Mun- ich; Hamilton Easter Field, Ogun- •__ z quit, Maine^rSh© has exhibited in many of the .reprejenlaC^^afecwIngg includingT^the Chicago Society of Etchers and Artists; Print Makers Society of California: Annual Amer- ican Exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in the traveling exhibition of the American Federation of Arts. She is also rep- resented in the permanent collection "of prints in Pasadena, in the State *'â-  Library7"§uch aTe the accompllsh- is perhaps the most interesting artist- ically as well as historically. Three of them were done in Eng- landâ€"Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Bon- ar Xaw^at Na II Downing Street, .... fcondon,where manyLJaiiidents of in* ?°i^P^n-are^^4teresT-have happened. Mr. George is receiving a delegation. An interesting bit of history is connected with the table here-=and avery important looking table it is, too. On it was signed our Treaty with England after the American Revolution and also that Treaty which is a thorn in Eng- lish fleshâ€"the Irish Treaty. Field *farehaH mrt-Hair w^^ the Headquarters, Horae Guards, Lon^ ^hem are^there" don* Other- important delegates wliose â- portraits were done are Mr. Pichon, French Foreign Minister; Mr. KlOtz, French Minister of Finance; General -Taskerâ€" Blissr-F^HSj^Acjâ€"Honoral Henry White; Orlando, Italian Pre- mier in his study; Right honorable James Arthur Balfour; and Mr. Frank Polk, Assistant Secretary of State. As -thero-wereâ€"no-etnerrpjcF tures painted oOhis^sort important session, the signing of the Treaty of Peace at Versailles, the Room of Honorable Henry White at Crillon, the American Headquarters at the Peace Conference, and the study of Salle des Glaces, Versailles, where the treaty was signed,*_these wiH-be of mitold valaie tradlflonally. M Selected from the collection of the Friends of American Arts, is a group shown in the present exhibit at the of some fourteen landscapes being Art Institute. This Friends of our Na- tive A Landscape Is a society which, was organized to promote the paint- ing and preserving of our local "The Winter sun*' by Gardner Sy- mons, is prominent among the collec- tion, because of its merit. Many times have all pf us seen the brilliant after- â€"------ _ L «..«». glow rejflecttd. jipon^ th© «B©Wfc©afife ^^^^^^^S^zAnftdiiS^ stream flowing through this bit woods* has a 'deep, .dark, forboding ^ color, so characteristic of this season. ^ ^^oth^r^Wtate^s^ • ly different nature, ^Jj^^nowfalt^itt^- the Woods*? toy ^Evei^tt;/:tj.;;Warner«»v Here one is fascinated by- .the-'Miow^ii^ as it lazily filters through the trees Hf and covers the earth with ft billowy mantle. Others' exhibiting are Roy The-^ftra^7 illlMIIIIUUIIIUIMIUCIIIIItllllllllUIIIUIUIIHmillllllHItltllllllllliniltMHIlllUUIHIltllHHHIIHHM :0^k0^M^^^^^^^^^ R, W. BAkT£Oi4ANN CO FOR Frames, S^ .' 910-912 Weed Street,"riil'l^^i§i|^J "7 : "-â€"- : 'Near North and'^lwiui^Aw^^J^^^^^^g fm£$M] | Phone Lincoln 7012-3 "'xf^fi|;Sli§;| JHHiHHHmmimiiiitmiHiHttmttitimtMtmtiiii^^^^ M A X WELL vttatton 'wftiiriiffiO^poB. Seyffertin the east Galleries of the Art Institute. She ==~ has ^won, through untirteg «ffort^both in dry point and pencil sketches, her â€" place . among-_4he_ibremoat workers Of portraits. Japanese Art Seen at Morl't ------â€"MoHtfs, ^ place where beamy feigns- . supreme, a place of untold.value to Chicago, and yet a place so oyer- looked by us in our everyday pur two Japanese paintings which stand â€" â-  at thft-H^nwarf^â€"n*=â€"IwrrthMMifc Theryi e nave ^ecurea me iranemsc to tepresetit the good Maxwell, and most eo*^ Y<mM visit us in the new l^^SI^uSteM/ Maxwell owners to th are the work of the justly popular Hiroshige, and convey the unique art of the Japanese race: One passes rfrom the particularly lovely cherry- " blossom time*to the no less fascinat- ing winter, with their inimitable ~mounds of "downy" sndwrTrue to their custom, Mr. Mori is showing only a few of tftem-at-a-tlme, andJt-is~hoped that the complete collection will be purchased by a collector. These enticing'paintings are but a small part of the collections of Japan- ese prints and oil paintings, to say nothing of lamps and pottery. This unsurpassed ensemble, is housed in the one artistic building that Chica- go's arr colony can boast, and~will ,11 probability be used as a nuc- leus Ground which a colony will be _ bjiilt^-the COurt Juilding.._ that fas- cinating place at the corner of On- tario Street and Michigan Avenue, where one finds many other studios. Another little haven which is not -4nvaded~by-the public, is the Beaux l^Arts^Galleriea_i)n tha-fiftlL floor of4 the Fine Arts Building, where one can retire from the noisy world and revel in the loveliness within. The restful atmosphere draws one's liking -=W"fhl~artisMcjrjroKits_*eclujlmâ„¢Snu allows it to dominate. A small enough number of paintings is exhibited to let one assimilate all the merits of â-  each without becoming 'indifferent to them as is the case in many of the CJ8.1lGT*i©S Now, there is hung there, a collec- tion of some ten canvassesâ€"land- scapesâ€"whieh is rather pleasing. At Carson, pirle ^^alsbny PirTerScoKT^id-l^mlany is now exhibiting a most unnsual-an* historically valuable collection paintings which were^dtnw the "war by John time Chlcagoan. good Maxwell the mostJnter^sttngL you have ey^^^^pjeot^ jor j^v^p* j motor The good Maxwell hc*ds?t ttmijue position. In richness o£ appearance^an<Mnperformance, -it f takes rank >s one of the v< America has produced. Touring Car Roadster - New Serimrof^ieGood^ . 0 * V $885 Sedan :^l*^*Ll,*^- ~+ 7 T~r- 885 Coupe - r - * F.O.B. Factory, War Tax to be Addedf "M±i ^» #1485 1013 Davis St; Evahston Phon& werer C. Johansen, a one- This collection of %RANICLIN Sales and Service ^!Tl^^ttrw«yim»^wraW like lo ©wit Pbone S700II l$&Omufim^*e*»Ewntwa

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