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By Lessie 8S. Read The Ozarks are attracting more and more artists from other sec tions and newest additions to the art colony are Mr. and Mrs. Will MacCarty of Detroit Mr. MacCarty has purchased a cabin site on Highway 71, near Pike Museum and sponsored by a Fort Smith banker plans to erect a large studio. He came to Arkansas to decorate a bank building in Fort Smith and liked the section so well he determined to remain. With him now at his cabin is his Polish wife, a native of Warsaw. He is widely travelled and has studied art at Heidenberg Univer sity in Germany whose art school was founded by one of his fore bears. Studied in Chicago He attended the Art Institute in Chicago, was an instructor there two years, and did some work in decorating the buildings at the recent Chicago Centennial Fair. He is of the opinion that fine arts should be bridged to make them intelligible to laymen and tourist and he believes that there is a real field for an artist in try ing to do such work. Public taste can be raised from the “awful souvenirs” usually offered to the traveler, he thinks, and as a start er he hopes to manufacture in Arkansas small pieces of art su perior in design and feeling to “plaster casts usually obtainable at highway gift shops.’ Ann Guilliot of Dallas is another painter of importance who owns a Washington county summer cabin and who spends much of her time painting in the Ozarks. A showing of her pictures lo cally is just now being discussed by local art-lovers. Blanca Mills Blanca Mills of Santa Fe, New Mexico only this summer pur chased a cabin at Winslow and will be back in September to make her permanent home in this section. She formerly taught sculpture in Rochester University, Rochester, N. Y. Outstanding among artists al ready in the Ozarks are Louis Freund who brought his bride to Eureka Springs where he recent ly purchased the old Carrie Na tion Hall of national fame, and which he has made into a studio that is drawing visitors from many sections. Mr. Freund was winner last year of the Arkansas Water Col or Society award given at the University of Arkansas in con test sponsored by Ralph Hudson, head of the University’s depart ment of art. Helen Finger, artist-daughter of Charles J. Finger, nationally known writer, has her studio at Gayeta Lodge being visited this summer by many notables, most of whom ask that no publiity be given to their visits. Vincent Ripley, one-time Chi cago cartoonist, and now artists sketching the pre-Columbian ar ticles being collected by the Uni versity of Arkansas Museum, with his wife who is a sister of Charles Morrow Wilson, have their cot tage on the Fayetteville highway north. Macgeane Ruble Rice, instruc tor in art here and in Muskogee, has purchased acreage on this highway also and has in mind erecting a studio and ceramics kiln in this vicinity in which Arkansas clays are to be devel oped. Florence Altizer Florence Altizer, kinsman of Winnie Ream, noted sculptor who once lived in Fort Smith and whose statuary stands in Wash ington, D .C. conducts her own sculptor’s studio at her home in Fayetteville. Ralph Hudson has purchased a home on Mount Sequoyah and does some painting in water col ors and oils, in between directing all the art classes at the Univer sity and studying elsewhere dur ing part of each summer. At pres ent he is in New York viewing the art displays at the world’s fair and attending a national conven tion of artists. Wilbur Bancroft of Springfield, art collector, has built one of the show-place homes in the South west near Eureka Springs. De spite the fact rumors persist that no-one may visit this except upon invitation, Mr. Bancroft repeat edly has denied this and says, “If I were not willing to show my place, I could not enjoy it my self.” Near Mountainburg in the Ozarks is the cabin of Maud S. Blanchard, a spot she calls “The Narrows.” Here, it recently was discovered by a local artist, may be found Indians carrying on a project involving various Indian crafts such as pottery-making, hand-weaving of belts, willow basketry, moccasin-beading. “The Wests” as a couple of art ists living near Winslow are called, came here from Santa Fe. Mrs. West is a block-print artist and Mr. West is a writer. Neith er accepts invitations but both are hard-workers whose work is said to be of a high order.
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Fayetteville Northwest Arkansas Times
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Wed, Aug 23, 1939
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