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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1902
Page
7
Indiana painter T. C. Steele discusses portrait work after completing a likeness of poet James Whitcomb Riley. The interview highlights Steele’s approach to character, technique, and artistic philosophy within Indiana’s cultural scene.
In Theodore C. Steele’s Hartford building studio James Whitcomb Riley sits as model for a three quarters length portrait on commission by Bowen Merrill Co. The piece emphasizes character as well as likeness and mirrors Steele’s view that eyes reflect emotion while the mouth reveals character.
A London letter weighs the question of whether to treat the United States as a singular or plural noun. It cites a Washington House committee’s ruling favoring “the United States is” for formal usage, noting historic debates from the founding era about the nature of the union and sovereignty of states.
The New York Mail and Express portrays women photographers moving from amateur status to professional success. It highlights specialists who shoot only women, children, or men, and notes how female photographers gain favor by sympathetic posing and artistic presentation. The piece cites examples from Gloucester and cites the need for capital, studio ambience, and patronage from fashionable circles.
The poem portrays a March hare fleeing a wolf wind and pack across bare winter landscapes. The speaker notes tongues of madness in those who do not understand the hare's fear as wolves become only March winds among the trees.
At the Negro Conference Professor Vernon of Quintard Kan argued that race education interests are inseparably linked. He recalled a colloquy about race feeling where a white Southerner admitted literacy among both groups would reduce prejudice, advising support for Southern white education as well as Black education.
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