Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 27 Feb 1936, p. 30

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An exhibition of portraits, marine landscap.e and " charcoal drawings bya Kentucky artist, Sudduth Goff,,was a surprise feature of the annual evening * party of the Kentucky Society of Evanston and the 1North Shore, last Fiday evening atthe Or- rington. bote). Large, handsomnely' framed por- * traits of meni and women appeared . to ýexcellent advantage. on the soft green wattls of the attrac-ý tive ballroom During the remainder of the cur- * rent week the pictures will be on displav ln. the * Orrington ,hotel dining roomn, and' then will go to the art gallery of the Chicago Wornan's club). * for a one--man show'during the first two weeks ini March. Mr. Goff's portraits, of mfeti are outstauding.. and among the finest, are those of Prof. Alfred C. Zem- brod and the. Rev.. Mark Collis. He has also painted Major General George B . Duncan, Rear' AdmiraI Walter S-. Crosley, the, Right Rev.. ýH,..P. Almion Abbott, Chicago soci.- * e ey people, judges. goveruots, a president of a university and mnany other dignitaries. * .Although, a Kentuckianx for rnanv. years, Nir. Goff now has a studio ilu Chicago, where he paints portraits. H-e instructs at the Arnerican Acad- * enxy of Art, and in the past con- r ducted an art school, wliich he founded, in Louisville. lu recen t years- he has been visiting instruc- tor at the School of Fine Arts and Design ini Memphis. Here, at the F. Brooks MINemorial Gallery of Art he held a ome-mnat exhibition. TJhe artist receive<) his f4rt train- e ~ a ul Ltee sLtils -,%r. c iT re- ceived scholarships, and at the Bo- ton school won the Fifty Dollar prizes for drawin.g and painting. .1-is ski)) in drawiug is illustrated Mi the Evanstoj exhibition by two charcoal portraits , amati and wonian. The draw-- 1 1 ng of the.iwomban;, entitled Frances, lias received recogni tion in numnerous exhibitionis. 1ht I is re-' i narkable for the large and expressive eyes of the voung wonian. MIr. Goff's marine landscapes, * which belong to an earlier period, givé promise of the mature talent of the artist.. Smiaier and ,ne lias IIad considerable experience in news- paper and magazine illustrating, and bas met with ber greatest success in landscape painting and portraiture.. At present she is specializing in por- traits, giving her attention almot entirely. to this brandci of art work. Rudolf F. Ingerle of Highla*nd Park, miember of thfe North Shore Art league., is the artist of one of the fifty-three riaintings included in. the ne-w exhibition of local artists which opens in the Ad- mniîstration buildings at Garfield Park, Match 0i. The new installation will comprise a group selecte*'d fÎromi184.,paintixigs owned by.theCotin- rhission for the 'Encouragement of Local Art, a civic orga nization founded in'.1914, unider the direction of Mayor Carter H. Harrison. A certaýin suai was voted by the city couliçil to purchaàse each vear certain works of art by' local artists. Moonace"is the title of. Mr. Inigerle's painting. Rronislau, Huberman Swugart. Trio Presents The uext in the series of concerts of .recordings beiixg given at the Dudley K. French home, 503 Hawthorn lane, Winnetka, witÏ be postpoued one week because of Mr. French's absence from town, and will 'be presented Wednesday evening, March 11. The program to be givèn on that date. will be announced nextý week. Bronislalv Hubermian,' the Polish violinist, who is appearing in the final Artist-Recital concert at New Trier auditorium Monday evening, March 2. under the auspices of the Winnetka Music club., comnes to Chicago fromn New York.where he lhas just ýgiven. a. concert with Emaniuel,.Feu.ernanni.. the 'cellist. SunidayV.. the day before Huberman plays ini Xinnetka, hle wil present a joint, recital at the Auditoriuii i Chicago %vith Artur Schnahel1, piainist. Jakob Ginpel, pianist, is to assist Huber- mi at his MNfonday night concert. The 1luberman recital also will bring an an- nounicement of the results Of the halloting for artists whomn the \Vini- netka Msclul)) hopes ho offerii js1936-37 artist series. Ballots containingm the" names of fiftv or si xtv nîusicians have been sul)iniitted, toixibscribers so thaî they rnay nii- dlicate their preférence. In recent vears it lias grownintcreasiniglv, diffi- cuIt for the-club to con)itiniue its orig- inal policy of presenting each -season an entirely differenî-t.group of arti;ts.. Simîce there are no longer available enouigh artists of hiigli standard to continue the series ivithotit repeti- tions, sub)scribeçrs hia\ve been askted wvhichl inuisîcians they 3vish toi [ica r a second timne. To Mention onie of the most(Ira- matic incidents in.th- career oi Hubermnan-at the, ageotite hie lad the distinction of giving. bis first performance in' public of Brahms' violin concerto ii Vieila- )efore the great composer. 0f thle performance, Max Kalbeck in biis liigrahvof Brahms says: "On the first evening Brahmns Na, sittiiîg in the director's' box. . l)repared for an iniadequtate. SCho(ol- bo-ierenidering frorn the *ittie chalî.' But at the vcrý, first tok-f thîe l)ow-lie bent forward iiM as ton-ý "Purinti te adlagio lUe iped bis eyes. Aftier thie finale lie vent down to the artists' rooin andl enibraced and kissed l ttle -I.roitislavw Hubermn.wliose 'geni' h toc rightly inte rpreted the concerto. The prograni Hublermanl will -wa .et eek inchndes: Sonata -A majoi . .... . . .'<I*>rn( Allegretto Iben idrao--Aîeî * Reita iyo-Fantsjo(ben nioderitto)- Allegretto poco niosso) Mrs. Robert Gordon of Wiunetka, dramnatic soprano, and Mrs. Marguerite McAdamis of Win- netka, pianist, will make a trip to Danville, Ken- tucky, to preseut a recital March 6 at Ceuter, col- lege. The recital is one of a series of music pro- grams, managed hy Mrs. George Kreer of Winî- netka,' for the music appreciation departinîet of the college. *1

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