FOURTH Alii.jUAL Exn ! BITIoN FtoniJo ,q"ii,t Gno,p NATToNAL
MAY, ,nu8*
DESCENT
from the
CROSS
t'*X[prL, rg54
Louis M. Freund
First Shoum und,er the au.spices of the SARASOTA ART ASSOCIATION Sarasota, Florida and circuited by the FIORIDA ARTIST GROUP, INC.
rl I orewopo Fo: the fcurth
successive year
the Florida Artist Group has held its annual Sym-
posium and Annual Exhibition, this year uncier the auspices of the Sarasota
Art
Associa-
tion. From the exhibition 26 paintings are to be made available throughout the succeeding year to art inslitutions and art departments o{ universities and colleges for brief
showings ircm month to month. In keeping with the grcup's established practlce an art personality cf first standing in America was invited to serve as sole itiror and as one of tl-re speakers of the Symposium. This year Homer Saint-Gaudens, whose long record as the distinguished director of the Carnegie InsiiLule is known to everycne iCentrfied with art, was invited and consented to serve. TLe present collction of 26 paintings is made up of the 24 iiems selected by Mr. Saint-Gaudens with the additicn of numbers 8 and 14, cne of whic}i will be chosen for tf,e Stetson University Purchase Prize.
Mr. Saint-Gaudens named the painting, "Descent From the Cross," by Louis Freund, as the Roliins College Purchase Prize, No. 9 in.this catalog, and also designated four paintings {or Special Mention, "Terra Cotta" by Minerva Walker Goldsmitl'r, "Toad Stools and India-n Pipes" by Lillian B. Hamilton, "The Red Table" by Helen Sawye4 and 'TLe Woodsman" by Alice Simmons. A third Purchase Prize may be awarded by the Florida Union of the University of Florida, Gainesviile, after the showing of the exhibition to be held under the auspices of the Florida Union in the course of the present tour.
SYMPOS!UM On the afternoon of Friday, April 24, selections and awards were announced by Saint-Gaudens in a happy speech that played around the difficulties confronting a sole juror in an effort to justly represent all phases of art apparent in the large coliection of 102 paintings from which it was his problem to pick 24 for circuit and awards. A panel discussion was held on the subject "Is there any substitute for the Jury
Mr.
System?" Jerry Farnsrvorth, distinguished American painter, served as moderator and called upon a panel of eight tc express their views on this subject. Participating were Clayton Charles, Head of the Art Department of the University of Miami, Dixie Cooley, watercolorist of Tarpon Springs, Don Emery, painter of Daytona Beach, George S. Hill, painter and Head of the Hill School of Art, St. Petersburg, Marian Murray, Assistant Director at the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Reginald Poland, Director of the Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Oliver Smith, painter of Tarpon Springs, and Douglas Stewart, Sarasota painter, and President of the Cape Cod Art AssociationByanis, Mass., where Ire spends his summers.
ADDRESS On Saturday morning, under the honorary chairmanship of Dr. John Richard Craft, Director of the Columbia Museum, Columbia, S.C., the principal address of the occasion was given by Carl Hoity, guest instructor at the University o{ Florida, Gainesville. Mr. Holtv's address. e philosophical discourse bearing on many pltases o[ modern painting, lreld-the attentibn o[ an audience of 125 for an hour and a half. These sessions were held in the patio gallery of the Sarasota Art Association. Opportunity to examine the 102 paintings composing the .exhibition, brought forward mich valgable comment trnd particular s_tress was laid on the fact that an organization of 113 exfiibiting members hid so nearly attained 100% representation. trt is felt that something of a record was established with this evidence of membershi,p intere-st. A single entr! was called from each of the 113 members throughout ttre State. The respon'se, I02"entries, was gratifying to the officers who organized the exhibition.
CATATOGUE Fourth Annual Circuited Exhibition
of the "
FTORIDA ARTIST GROUP '".
Artist 1. Howard J. Ahrens
Medium
Title
Price
Sundaq Dinner
oil
350
Neglected,
oil
65
wc
250
Plaqing Hookeq
wc
100
The Curious
wc
125
Jacksonville
2. Ris Armstrong Sarasota
3. E. Zabriskie Banta
Old World
Ha.rbor
Tarpon Springs
4, Rotrert Chase Sarasota
5. Shirley Clement Sarasota
LANDSCAPE
(watercolor)
Alida Conover o
Artist
Title
6. Ethel W. Clonts
Medium
Price
The Passing of Pierrot
oil
200
Landscape
wc
100
cas'n
100
St. Petersburgh
7. Alida Conover Dunedin
B. Sallie Boyd Dillard
Street
in
la.maica
Sarasota
STREET
IN JAMAICA
TERRA COTTA
Sallie Boyd Dillard
Minerva Walker Goldsmilh 4
(watercolor and ink)
Tiile
Artist
9. Louis
Freund
DeLand
10. Stanley
Goddard
Descent from
the
Cross
Unabridged
Sarasota
11. Minerva W. GoldsmithTerra Cotta
Medium Price 750 oil 250 oil wc and ink 100
West Palm Beach
12. Lillian B. Hamilton Toad Stook and lndian Pipes Sarasota
13. loan
Hutson
Autumn Glow
wc oil
Jacksonville
TOAD STOOLS and INDIAN
PIPES
Lillian B. Hamilton
(watercolor)
125 300
Artist
Mediun'r oil
Title
14. Guy lohnson
Still Life
15. Betty Warren Jones
lu,dq Waiting
16. Mimi Kramer
Another World
oil oil
Erserglades
cas
Trophies
oii
Lou Tida
wc
7
Newpori
Sarasota
Price 200 500
N.F.S.
Sarasota
17.
Hilton
Leech
n
I/D
Sarasota
18. Helen A. Ord Dunedin
19. Joel Reichard
Silver Springs
20. Andrew Sanders
250
,
L75
tr' .'i'
St. Morq's
f,ouache'l:
The Red Table
oil
t;"
I50
Sarasota
21. Helen Sawyer
400
Sarasota
STILL LIFE 7
Guy Johnson
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'l:
;Xii
It@lI
i::-i
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;;,*:,,1:Y;
tqjl0l
6r{
Kri
TROPHIES
(oil) Helen A. Ord 6
JUDY WAITING
Betty Warren Jones
Iitle
Artist
22. Alice Simmons
Medium
Price
Tl'te Woodsman
oiI
150
Homestead on the Grtll
wc
250
Nigl'ft Mqsterq
WC
i25
wc
150
oil
200
Sarasota
23. Oliver Smith Tarpon Springs
24. Chester J. Tingler Coral Gables
Birds and Brahmas Englewood I 26. Prudence F. Vaughan Still Li,fe u;i,th Lantern
25. Lois Bartlett TracY Miami
ili# ffi+
STILL LIFE WITH LANTERN
Prudence F. Vaughan
THE RED TABLE
Helen Sawyer, N.A.
THE FI.ORIDA
ART!sT
GROUP -its
signifi,catTce &s a factor
in the art actiaity of Florida
"To stimulate the develoDment of hieh standards o{ creative art in the Staie of Florida" is the purpdse of the or'qanization as stated in the charter by which on June 30th,'1949, the Flolidi'Artist Group was established as
a non-profit, educational corporation.
.
several oost-war vears widelv known artists of the State, and Ieade-rs in the fleid of art education, liad recognized that much could be done'to arouse thiti interest of the Florida public in good art, and to carry to the public at large knowledge of Florida's contlibution to the cievelopment oi contemporary art in America. Il was felt that progresji aionq these the medium of an olganized Group lirnited Iines could be attained through 'iculptors and print-makers who had gained in membership to painters, recognition in'state, regional or lational exhibitions' Seventy leading painters of the State made immediate response to the initial propbsal of ig49. There has been moCest g;c,w.h each year si rce. with a'present membership of 113 .(as of ihe date of the Fourth Annual
Fol
Symposium).
MEMBERSHIP It is hopefl that individuals and institutions in sympathy with the aims of the organization may be disposed to aid the d-evelopment of the group's Drogram'by taking sustaining memberships. in ordel that the costs of operaiior'rruy be covered without increase of the modcst dues charged the exhibiting members. Annual dues, Exhibiting L{embers, $5. Sustaining Nlembels, $25.
THE WOODSMAN
Alice Simm::rs 10
THE FTORIDA ARTIST GROUP
Or ganization
and personnel
Execuflve â‚Źonrnnittee
ol the Florida Artist Group, lnc.
President-HILTON LEECH, Director, Amagansett Schoc'l of Art, Sarasota, Sec'y.-Treas. and Director-RALPH H. McKELVEY. HUGH F. McKEAN, President, Rolli,ns College,Winter Park. HELEN SAWYER, N.A. LOUIS FREUND, Dept, of Art, Stetson Llni'oersitq, DeLond. Past Presidents HOLLIS H. HOLBROOK E. R. HUNTER WILLIS F. WOODS Circuit Direclor ELDEN ROWLAND Membersh.ip Committee Regional Chairmen CLAYTON CHARLES, Head, Dept. of Art, Uni,oersitq of Miami. LOUIS FREUND, Dept, of Art, Stetson Unioersitq, DeLand. EDMUND LEWANDOWSKI, Dept. of Art, F.S.U., Tallahassee. REGINALD POLAND, Director, Norton Gallerq and School cf Art, West Palm Beach. STUART PURSER, Head, Dapt. of Art, Uni,Dersitr4 of Florida, Cainesaille. ROBERT B. SPRAGUE, Director, Sprague School of Art, St. Petersburg. Sustaining Members Hilton Leech Minerva Walker Goldsmith Helen F' McKelvey Mary E' lohnston Helen Sawver
AUTUMN GLOW
THE FTORIDA
Exhibiting L[embers
ARTIST GROUP
Franklin Adams Joseph Adams Howard J. Ahrens Elsa
Lillian B. Hamilton Frank S. Hawkins
Anshutz i
Ris Armstrong Judy Shepherd Axe
Albert E.
Backus
E. Zabriskie
Max
Faye M. Henthorne
Helen Frank Protas
George S. Hill Polly Knipp Hill Hollis H. Holbrook Charles A. Holder
Stuart R. Purser
Billy Price Hosmer Victoria Hutson Huntley Joan Hutson
Banta
Warren Baumgarten Bernd-Cohen
William H. Boughton
Ru Israels
Elsinore M. Budd
A. Skavakis
Robert E. Carson Clayton Charles
Betty Warren Jones
Robert Chase
Shirley Clement M. S. Clinedinst Ethel W. Clonts Stella Coler
J.
Russell
Alida Dixie
Conn
Covey
Harrison W.
Covington
Dressler Wayman Eaton
William James
'
Barbara Warren Ebersole
Edwards Don J. Emery William
Helen Sawyer
Jerry
,:i,z
i Jeannette M. Genius Stanley Goddard
Katharine Merrill Alan Miller George Milton e\Awrence R. McCoy
P.
,. .'
. i,:..
.rr
R.. Mclntosh
Hugh' F. McKean
;Helen Stagg McKim Anna Neagoe Lois Niemeier
Minerva Walker Goldsmith ' Helen Ord Hunter Gill Griffith Niki Parton Genevieve
Hamel
Wells M. Sawyer Gertrude Schweitzer
Syd Solomon
Leech
R. Hj:frAcKelvey t:i
Elden Rowland Henry Saltzman Andrew D. Sanders
Oliver Smith
lva McCullough
Farnsworth
E. George Rogers
Paul Laessle
Farnsworth Charles R. McCurry
Elsie Freund Louis Freund ' George E. Fox
Reed
Reichard
Elsa Selian
Grace Mack George Mandus Richard L. Merrick
Marioree Deo Sallie Boyd Dillard
M.
Marcel Sessler Mary Shiras
Laura E. Lock
E. Fairfax Davenport
Bertha
Joel W.
Bruce E. Johnstone George R. Kaiser, Jr. Florence Kawa Janei Reid Kellogg Mimi l(rcmer
Dorothy Sherman Leech Edmund Lewandowski
Coo-lgy
Arihur
Jegart
Gladys C. Randolph
Guy D. Johnson
Hilton
Conover
Reginald Poland Julius Protas
Tibor C.
Pataky
L2
Alice Simmons Harold B. Slingerland
Rose H. Spitzer
Robert B. Sprague Ben Stahl Jean Stannard Douglas G. Stewart Dudley R. Stokes Larry Stults Stanley Tasker
Marion Terry Chester
J.
Ting ler
Lois Bartlett Tracy Eleanor Treacy Prudence F. Vaughn Richard G. Wedderspoon Reynold Weidenaar Edumund E. Weyhe Eugene White Loran F. Wilford Robert Willson James Mallory Willson
Harold W. Yates Jane Ziegler