Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 29, 1937, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page eight. J monday to or. Grant s. There saw his prints which he shewed me and indeed Are the Best col location of anything almost that Ever the Manitoba artists exhibition i saw there being the prints of in the Art gallery closes at the end of March and will be followed by the Canadian Salon of photographic Art while the Brockhurst and Augustus John etchings will also be withdrawn in few Days. These splendid prints admired for their draughtsman ship and amazing technical achievements Are attracting Large numbers f the next lecture in the sunday Art hour series will be Given by . W. U. Chivers on april 4. As the title. Stonehenge to the present indicates the speaker will Deal with the development of architecture throughout the Cen Turies. 3 4 n the . Exhibition is enhanced by a Small group of Sculp Ture among which two pieces by Kristine f. Smolleck stand out be cause of their sheer Merit. These portrait Heads Are modern in the truest sense of the word yet Bear most of he greatest houses churches and Antiquity in Italy and France if the London correspondent of the Manchester guardian has this to say that there was nothing exciting in this year s elections at the Royal Academy. Or. Harold Knight who became an associate a year later than his wife. Dame Laura Knight becomes an academician in the same sequence. The other new academician is or. Gilbert Ledward. The sculptor whose works include the guard s memorial in the horse guards Parade and the War at Stockport and Blackpool. The the stamp of the qualities found in Academy had an unusual rim All great sculpture. It is no cd Jer of talented artists for select agg ration to say that John j lion As associates. One is glad 77 is a Little masterpiece. Sec that they have chosen in treatment handled a Kwh True Ramr. Charles Cundall. Whose varied Strain. Because of its very Quali and peculiarly personal Art is Well ties it May be overlooked. A study i known in Lancashire with which of a child s head beautifully seen j he is Many connections. Or. And accurately modelled it is More j James Woodford. Sculptor. The than a portrait. It is a work of Art. J other new . First attracted this Winnipeg artist is Well known Jal Tention by his sculptures in the for her exquisite and original . S new Hall. Kingswood pottery. A j m. I As to Dame Laura Knight those i who have seen her work and have. J a 4 i become familiar with it have to to. C a considerable extent at 1 he w. O. A. Bond of Friendship with the artist stand on a Friendly footing. J just As one has come to regard with affection the author of their j Choice so. It is with us in relation to the artist who has painted a picture that we wholeheartedly enjoy. The fact that one can with enthusiasm Admire a work of Art and find pleasure therein gives to one an assured place among the elect. Arise my heart and sing thy easter song to the great Anthem of return ing Bird and sweetening Bud and Green ascending Blade add thou Why word. Long was the Winter and the waiting Long heart there we hours indeed thou Wert afraid. So Long the Spring delayed. Dame Laura Knight was not _. I born with a Silver spoon in her Ahe Auster Mes of Lent come Toi Mouth but had what might an. End with holy week. The sad j said to be a hard upbringing. Take Ness and gloom of Calvary which her oven Sto in an interview had quenched Hope and left men Given sore years ago she impart i in Black despair was instantly j somewhat of the highlights of her changed by the sudden turn of career. The following is quoted events on that far away my father died when i was a poc to and painters have vied with baby. And it was Flora my Mother each other in setting Forth the Iwho was Amateur Story. The jubilant role pc and taught painting that i first sents a Strong contrast to the Learned to Lisp in Art. Our Home humiliating sense of defeat that had i was in Nottingham and if 1 was chilled the hearts of those who had j not born in the studio. I was cer. Decided that the Light of the mainly brought up in it. From the world had extinguished by time i can remember i Drew the Cross. Everything i could see. When i weeping May Joy was old enough to go abroad. I cometh with the morn. Was sent to France to be educated for it was arranged i should study easter is one of the oldest fes j in Paris. The family fortunes rivals. Because it is really a con i however prevented this and i re to nation of the passover plus the turned to Nottingham and entered resurrection. The Early Christian the school of Art there. When i formed largely of jewish was thirteen i. Went straight into converts. Made it easy to engraft the life class. I also Drew from on to the new order of things the Antiques hut the authorities by the time of Constantine easter was observed with great pomp. On the evening preceding easter Sun Day All the churches and the Prin Cipal houses were brilliantly illuminated people poured through he streets with torches and vigils did not approve of women drawing from the nude in those Days so that my studies of the human form were Only partial and not com plete. Or. Knight Harold was at the Nottingham school of. Art when j arrived. He was the Brilliant the were kept in the churches till the one of the morning dawned. The next Day All the churches resounded with i hallelujah and friends and rela Here is the begin eng of tons feasted at each other s houses. Its co Summa the festivities continued till the Hon their carnage. Sunday after easter. Modest almost All the Ancich l nations. Kept a. Festival near the Vernal Equinox to Welcome a the Bud Ding Spring with than offerings to their gods. The saxons had a season of thanksgiving in the Spring which they named Ostern in Honor of love with an admixture of hero worship slyly added. And i used to look in wonder and amazement at the excellence of his then How. Delightfully naive is her observation i never thought that in his excellence and superiority he would notice me and origin of the English name easter. The French called it Paques and the italians Pasqua in allusion to the Paschal Lamb of the passover. The following from the celebrated diary of Samuel is interesting. In 1663 these entries appear it being Good Friday our dinner was Only sugar soaps Only time we have had a lenten dinner All this Lent and then on easter Day this Day put on my close kneed coloured suit which with new stockings of color with Belt and new Gilt handled sword is very handsome. To Church where the Young Scotchman was preaching. I slept a then on easter hated to get up mornings now wakes up full of Pep got rid of tired headache half sick feeling. Bank no penalties of modern living. Get rid of tired sluggish bad taste headache mornings. Wake up Peppy and full of Energy. 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I went to school at nine thirty and remained until one. I began again at two and worked till four thirty every spare minute was turned to afterwards she went Down to Staithes. A Yorkshire fish j ing Village. With these Fisher Folk i1 lived sharing their lives in j every Way. By Selling bits of my j work now and then i managed to i carry on for nearly ten i during All this time i lived on j kippers and Tea. The simple food of the homely fare to which j was added a pen rth of Cream her allowance for the that is part of the Story of this distinguished . Who undaunted worked her Way a upwards. M. B. On guard the above photograph shows or. William Mullins on guard beside the Safe which contains the 535.00 which Uncle Willie just Wen in last week s Puzzle word contest. Full details about the contest in the classified Section. Sketch club notes the Model tuesday pro scented a very difficult subject in a character study of an elderly woman. The character of the face was elusive and changeable but held interesting contours and shadows. J. There was an unusually Large at Tendance and everyone went seriously to work and each did his or her utmost to overcome the difficulties with which they were faced with Good results. Miss Scott secured a Good likeness and miss Holbeche. Caught the character of the Sitter in and lines of the figure rather than in the de tails of of Taure and produced a very pleasing water color in Flat planes and soft tones. There will be no Model. Next tuesday since the annual business meeting Falls on that night every member is urged to take an Active interest in the club by being pres ent at this meeting. Views Winnipeg free press monday March 29. 1937. From Here and there i fee War Sloop the new British War Sloop h.1vls. Kitti Wake in Clr Dock at Southampton eng., where she is being prepared for sea trials As the largest British naval building program in peacetime history gets under Way dread horsemen these four horsemen headed a horror Parade in Atlanta a. Of. Coffins wrecked automobiles and funeral bands in a Campaign against reckless driving burning an air View of the burning danish freighter Laila As tugs and five boats attempt to bring the flames under after it had caught fire in Boston Harbor British tars see Trio of British tars enjoy a Hearty laugh with a Goat Herdsman in the Hills above Santa Cruz Mexico during leave from their ship Turdy 8atomemr j. Hynd suite Horace court Norwood rebel Callery giant bombers and thousands of troops and mechanized forces Pound at the defences of Madrid these club Dren of the beleaguered Spanish City still Plav their favorite game of soldiers and the ruins of buildings wrecked by bombs and shells seeking cover Only when rebel air planes Darken the sky for attack on the War torn City ;