Project Editor: Amber Harris Leichner, English 418/818, Fall 2005

Pieces With Local Background To Spice
Nebraska Art Ass'n Exhibition In March

With the coming of the annual
treat of the exhibition of the Ne-
braska Art association for March,
art lvoers find interest this year
in several paintings by those with
a Nebraska background in addi-
tion to the several oils of the
finest artists. While there always
is the exception to make the old
platitude accurate, the majority
of these paintings from the gal-
leries represent the talent of na-
tive American artists.

The day is not so long gone
when any form of American cul-
ture was mocked at, but common
sense and deeper apreciation
have taught us that the highly
satisfctory works of polyglot
America meet the tests of con-
noisseurs, domestic and imported.

For a number of years, the art
association has honored Nebraska
artists by inviting a limited num-
ber who have achieved recogni-
vited to show in the forty-sixth
exhibiton reside here now, but
all have been Nebraskans at some
time or another.

Among These Are—

Aaron Douglas, as one example, a noted negro artist now of New
York City, studied iin the school
of fine arts at the university
only a few years ago. Another former
Nebraskan to be repesented is
John F. Stenvall, of Chicago, a
graduate of this institution in
1930. His Slush at Dusk," a
water color, won honorable men-
tion in the annual American show
at the Art institue this year. Mr.
Stenvall was a scholarship stu-
dent at the Chicago Institute.