Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 17 Mar 1938, p. 40

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The Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Art Insti- tute medal of $500, one of.the nine prizes awarded in the Forty-Second Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity which opens at the insti- tute Thursday of this week, goes this year to Norman MacLeish, 791 Bryant avenue, Winnetka, a member of the North Shore. Art league, for his oil painting-"'Watertown.". MacLeish has 'shown his, painting at previous. institute shows and north shore exhibits. His work wilI bc famniliar, to mnany.' 'The Mr. and Mirs. Jule F. Brower -P rize of $300, was won by Francis Chapiri of Chicago, who is now in- structing, classes in Winnetka for> the' North Shore'Art, league. The remainider.of the awards, which to- tai $1,950, go to other Chicago.,area artists. The north shore was well repre- sentcd in the exhibit this year, a_ signal honor for1 only 224 paintings and 26'pieces of sculpture were se- lected to be hung by the jury. Aside from the two prize winnerà- men- -tlÔhed above, the most interesting north shore angle of the exhibit is that fact that a piece of sculpture by an 18-year-old artist, Daphne E. Craig, was accepted. Miss Craig, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Craig, 716 Lake avenue, Wihnette, attended New Trier High school lier sophomore yçar, and last faIt was a student at the Cranbrcook Academy of Art at Blloomfield Hills. Mich. There she One o f the outstanding features of the beauti- f ut Wilmette home of the Charles Wrigleys is the Haninond Elect,-ic organ which ivas recently installed in the living rooin, Mrs. \Vrigley, an organist, is pictured seated at the coiisc-le. ýMr. Wrigley is the head of the advertising firm bear- ing his namne located at "0 North Michigan avre- nue, Chicago. The Wrigley home is, at 10 Canter- bury czourt iw-%Vilmiette. It was a pure.ly classical program of chamber music that was off ered by the Philharmonic String quartet for the North Shore Chamber Music association concert, Suxiday afterpoon, in: the Kenilworth Assembly hall. SWas. the quality .and. character of, the pr o- gram itself responsible for the particular charm of this program, or is it*that y.ears. of playing together have seasoned. and blend-. ed the performance of the players to the point of cease and grace and Both,. undoubtedly. .Certainly ià wvas a deliciouslv smooth and uni-. fid. performance. And certaitil. too, the audience, whose cars have of late .been so bombarded 'With Icacophony, and whose brains are *fatigued with overiwork, -in listen- ing to. so muchprevintellectual, V nodern music, appreciated a relief' in. the shape of ani entire program of classics-Hândel, Hav<lfi, Beethoven. Beautiful musical ideas and per- fection of form. a blenÎd of the emo-, tional anid the intellectual! 1.-et us hope ti-at contemporary composers. ~' in their zeal'flot to reinan static, will not forever continue to scorn ~ the element of'b)eautyý; that thev vwili flnd new ways of infusing it into their 'work. Angles and noise are svmibols of the vigor, directness. push of modern life, but eycs and cars sti feel the charn of curves. whether the design be graphic or aura], and a subdued and tender mood is a boon to moder'n, ovIer - wrought nerves. So, thank good- ness. the classics have stili a mis- A second young Wilmette. art- ist, who made the show with her painting, "Whose Heart Strings Are a Lute," is Miss Margaret MçcKee Walker. She graduated last year from Northwestern and is now head icf the art departmnent at De Kalb Township High school. Winnetka is, represented in the exhibition by Miss Carol Lou Burn- Mrs.,Charles *Wrigley prograrn were a H-aydn 'Quartet in C major and the Beethoven 01p. 59, No. 3 also in C major. Between these two items of perfection was a novel- ty group a novelty, grou) n <>n i the senlse o.f its bcing unfamiliar and for duo and trio cominations instead of quartet, for the composers were classicists and the numbers theni- iz~~J selves in pure classical form. ýPoto Ad The "Passacaglia" of Handel for Foto Ad violin and viola, a delectable set of v'ariations, and the "Romnanza" and Li. another Evanston boy whô artist class, was the Winner t for a debut recital spon- 1Guild of Chicago. He is to all on May 23. U- J -i-.., by Estep. ary tude - No. 2, Upi No. 111, Opus5 No. 2. f ollow.the programn. is Pàintings" in. thie Beaux - edinah. club in Chicago at .ernoon, March 20. Fréda iay two of Rudolph Ganz'J and "After' Midnight"-I iChopin, "The Revolution-I No. 10, and-"March Wind" A reception and, tea will WILMETýTE LIFE 'I i a rneml of the ani sored by t appcar in

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