Beauty & Truth

Last week, art came into its own at Atlanta, Ga. A public-spirited citizen had given it a home. The Grand Central Galleries of Manhattan had furnished an exhibit. The excitement of the event was emotionally reflected in front page news columns. For example, a news article in the Atlanta Constitution:

"Atlanta's new home of culture and the arts sits like a gem of truth, bowered in lovely green trees and shrubs, with the gentle rising sweep of lawn in front, on Peachtree street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth. Formerly the High home, it was given to the city, through the art association, by Mrs. Joseph Madison High, to be a perpetual home of art in this southern metropolis and to house the permanent collection which Atlanta will gather together for the inspiration and training of her gifted sons and daughters of the generations yet to come. . . .

"There are approximately 300 pieces, pictures and sculpture, and each provides sufficient study and pleasure for all who can see and feel the message of the artist, to enthrall for hours. There is a surfeit of aesthetic delight in strolling around the lovely grounds, where marvelous bronzes and statues stand among the trees and on the terraces. . . .

"Perhaps the first thing to catch the eye upon entering the house is the newly completed portrait of Bobby Jones, by Wayman Adams, N. A. This is the property of the Atlanta Athletic club, and will be hung in its new uptown home after the present exhibition.

"Just back of them [some bronzes], is the delicious "Humoresque" by Harriet Frishmuth, N. A. This should never be overlooked. Miss Frishmuth, ranking in the first rank of American women sculptors, is widely represented in the collection, and also is in Atlanta for the exhibition. Nine or ten examples of her work, all exquisite in idea and perfect in execution, are shown. . . .

"Mrs. High and the visiting artists stood in line receiving the guests yesterday afternoon. . . .

"The Grand Central exhibition will be here for two weeks. During that time a small charge will be made for admission, 35 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. Every Atlantan should see the collection, whether or not they think, today, that they have an appreciation for art.

"For all normal men and women have an appreciation for truth and beauty, and art, after all, is nothing but the expression of truth in beauty and beauty in truth."