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(By MARY HAUSE) The arts and crafts display in the emply room of the court house is fli...) much attention, with one Tuesday viewer from Pasadena, Cal. commenting most favorably on the products of Somerset county, ...) new and old, Just completed Monday night, the assembly room was opened to the public Tuesday and will remain open through Friday, morning, afternoons and evenings. A tin, brass and ironwork display, occupying a prominent position, is most attractive. Tin wall scenes, three lanterns, fashioned after the very old colonial models, individual Candle holders and other tinwork, is the product of Charles W. Geary of Berlin. The ironwork exhibit by W. Ira Baker of Somerset, R. D. 6, contains various types of ash trays for desk and on standards, candelabra and in dividual candle holders. They are hand fashioned of wrought iron. A brass display of candle sticks and candelabra prove attractive, while a large tin candelabra, like great standfather had in his parlor, fitted with white wax candles, has a gen uine air of antiquity. One of the magnificent paintings of the late George Hetzel, father of Mrs. Lila B. Hetzel of the Hetzel studios, depicts Paint creek in the vicinity of Scalp Level. Its delicate work is such that the leaves of the trees and the pine needles can al most be counted. The rippling stream seems alive, while the glow of an autumn sun, filters through the trees onto the water. Two large paintings by Kindred McLeary of Lower Turkeyfoot town ship have attracted much attention. They are egg tempera studies—the kind the old masters painted on the church walls of ancient Italy. The ground up paint colors are mixed into the whites of eggs, making a more permanent base than pure oil paint. One, a magnificent study in char acter is named “Gran’mother Craw ford, and another, “Putchering in Dogwood Valley.” The latter shows the men of the farm on: Lutchering day, with the pink, scraped head of the freshly killed pig in the fore ground. Orville Kipp’s “Lee Kipp” is that of a youth, bare torso and faded blue pants. It is created in the Kipp style, which has made his pictures popular in eastern United States art shows. Mr. Kipp, married to the former Miss Marian Johnson of Stoystown, is art teacher at Indiana State Teachers college.
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Somerset Daily American
Somerset, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Oct 10, 1945
Page 7
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