Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 18 Mar 1937, p. 48

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Miss Bertha Mecstsroth of '.xencoe, a large part of whose work will be on exhibition in the Fred- erîck Tyreli room of Winnetka.Gonunuùnity House, on Tuesday a nofter nonand. evening, March 30.-* Tea will be served -both afternoon and evening, and Miss Meckstroth will lecture on ",Mosaics in Cotton, Linen and Silk." The exhibition is spon- sored by the North Shore Art, league for its. members, but the public.may attend fora small admission .charge, ithe proceeds to 1be donated to the ArtLeague's fund for prizes for their.own shows. The religions character ofmany of the entries is especially appropriate to the Easter season. Her complete collection, al of which cannot possibly be. displayed at one time,: comprises 143 pieces, designed and. executed over a period of 15 years, the flfteen years since she moved to Glencoe to make her homne. Artistic inspiration first came to Miss Meck- had seen the sculpturing of Bessie Potter. Pre- ceding and following four years at Radcliffe col- lege, she studied at the Art Institute, but did flot take up lier original medium of cloth until mucli later, when she began making qùilts and hang- ings for lier own faniily. Miss Meckstroth had a great admiration for beautiful heirlooms, of which there were none in her own family, and so she set about creating, potentially, one of the most an-azing collections of heirlooms it has ever been tif e-size figures, nature subi ects, an( appropriate to the four seasons. Byc ding and shadowing of materials she1 Nuremberg madonna. The creative side of the artist, her perý in the face of a 'vast amount of pers( and her marvelous color sense arer ra, and rverance ial labor. For thsefourth time,> Bette Harwl,, d.ugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. .R.M Hartwell of Wiû- netka, won a mnusic con test, -wheuts s/e piaced first ini th e senior dizision of the society of Americaw Musici4fts' cont est w/tic/s closed March S~ at KÙ*dmball hU in, Chicago. Invm'ted by Stock to Play With Synipho Bertha Ostrar and Herbert Horn, artist sttsdents of Walter Knuipfer ( artist sti Woman's Park Wci the finals of wïwfll vre n'1 v". a .... Hall in Chicago. Bette is a sophomore at New Trier High school. Awards to the nine or, ten 'winners in the. five di-' visions will be eital appearailces in a concert under the management of Bertha Ott.,The date of the concert is stili to be aninounced. Miss Hartwell, a pupil of Howard Wells ofý the Howard Wells studio in Chicago, at the age o.f ffteen. bas won severai contests. In 1931, as flr.st place. contestant, she was awarded an appearance as soloîst with the George Dasch Little Symphony orchestra. In '1933 she wo n a Junior contest sponsored by the Society of American. Musicians, and, in 1934 a contest to appear as soloist for' the' Music Supervisors'. National conference at the Stevens hotel.> H allsthamm.ar P-4ece to Be a t Evanston Exhibait One of teenth2 Club of week jq -Sunclay, April 4., Th( Hanson, another of Mr. Knuper's have ts, appeareTI before the Evanston o'clkn b on March 5, and before the Rogers. Acadi 's club Tuesday, March 16. at 3:1' the outstanding attractions at the Six-, ,nnual Art exhibition of the Woman's ývanston which opened Tuesday of this the "Venus in Red Cherry," the wood y Carl liallstharmmar which received the >gan niedal and honorarium of $5W> at iand 5:30 ~s, wiii îeau a y tOur sole . . . . . . . .t.. .b. .r irn I j

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