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Harmony Split as Joliet Artists' League Bickers Over Maxwell Show
The Joliet Artists League faces a split after a jury refused two Maxwell works, a nude study and a little girl portrait. Esther Richardson Fletcher Ransom Lawrence Abbott defend Maxwell while Henry Baldwin criticizes the decision as damaging art. Adele Fay Williams of the Joliet Herald News declines to review the exhibit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constance V. Maxwell
Art Institute
Miss Maxwell
Sonia
Chicago
Institute
Europe
School of the Art Institute
League
Baldwn
Walter Hacpherson
Universalist
James McGrath
Germany
Hans Hofmann
Munich
Dorkus Shufelt
Ruth Schuessler
Louis Ritman
Adele Fay Williams
Joliet Herald News