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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, June 26, 1969 — PAGE 7 m SENIOR CITIZENS of historic Saint John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Pomaria were honored in special services Sunday. The ladies were given corsages, and the gentlemen boutonnieres. They are shown above, left to right, first row, W. D. Summer, Sr., and Mrs. Summer, Mrs. Maude Harris, Miss Julia Setzler, * v j * %■ % ft ym Mrs. Jessie Stoudemayer, Mrs. Sam Ber- ley, Mrs. Janie Chapman, Miss Eula Ep- ting, Mrs. Andrew Mayer, Mrs. Dan Ber- ley; 2nd row, Dave Miller, Clarence Miller, Charlie B. Stuck, Claude Boland; 3rd row, John Mayer, G. I. Epting, J. L. Lind- ler and Houseal Counts. (Sunphoto.) UDC Chapter hears talk by Mrs. Bishop The Calvin Crozier Chapter of the UDC met June 2 at the home of Mrs. A. T. Neely, Sr. Mrs. Judson Bishop gave an informative program on art, music and the theatre during the Civil War period, telling something of the work in gen eral and the more prominent people of the field. Excerpts from her program follow: The art of this period was di vided into three groups, land scape genre and portrait paint ings. The landscape paintings of this period followed Horace Greeley’s advice—go West. The mark of the school is bigness, the artists sought grandoise and distant scenes—The Rockies, The Sierras, and the Andes. Albert Bierstadt was bom in Germany and brought to New Bedford, Mass, as an infant. In 1863 he visited the Rocky Moun tains and there applied himself to great composite canvases of that great scenery. These pic tures won him a fortune. His ideals correspond to that era of expansion and discovery that followed the Civil War. Frederic Edwin Church filled his canvases with the most min utely studied details, yet kept within reasonable breadth of ef fect. He lacked the gift of sim plification and selection and therefore failed to be ranked as a great painter. Many of the landscape artists were studying in Europe about the time of the Civil War. Some of them were Inness, Wyant, and Martin. With these three men the early American Land scape school culminates. Inness’s painting never be came rigid. He worked in dif ferent manners to suit his sub jects and seemed to have two opposing styles—one impetuous and eager; the other classical and elegant. Wyant made no such varied appeal as Inness. Much of his work consists of variations on a single note. In 1873 he joined a government exploring expedi tion to Arizona and New Mex ico in hopes of benefitting his health. Instead of improving, his condition resulted in para lysis of his right hand. He learn ed to paint with his left hand with no loss of skill. The alterations of Homer D. Martin are far more abrupt ad ronfusing. He turned naturally to painting and after only two weeks instruction began to pro duce pictures. Martin studied nature more intimately and more profoundly than others of his time. The Civil War passed leaving no one comparable to Trumbull, who painted scenes of the Re volutionary War, to celebrate its glories. Photography supplied the record that painting failed to provide. We get our vivid scenes of how things looked around the camp from Winslow Homer. Homer was trained in commercial lithography, but he went to war as an artist cor respondent. The painting which won him recogntion was “Pris oners at the Front”. Eastman Johnson painted pic tures of single figures such as “Daydreams” > or “Knitting for Soldiers” or in groups like “Old Kentucky Home”. Many of our better artists were studying in Europe and do ing European subjects at this time. When they returned after the War they found a great change in the interest in art. There was a change from aris tocracy by birth to a new plu tocracy whose interest in art was slight and knowledge was less. The wealthy folk visited the New York branches of Eng lish and French art dealers in stead of our own American art ists. It was difficult for an art ist to keep his Americanism and live. Portrait painting was hurt by photography by the 1840’s. Some of the better painters of this time were Charles Loring Elliot and George Peter Alex ander Healy. Elliott was a skilful portrait ist and about the best of his time. He was born in Auburn, N. Y. His father disapproved of his profession but finally allow ed him to go to New York where he studied under Trumbull. Af ter two or three years he fin ally produced a couple of pic tures which gave him some re nown. Healy made no attempt to draw or paint until he was 16, and only then because some of his schoolmates showed h i m some of their work and said he could not do the like. He suc ceeded beyond expectation and was fired with ambition to per fect himself. At 18 he opened his studio. Work was scarce at first. When he was 19 years old he asked one of the social lead ers of the time to sit for him. She was pleased with his work and secured other sitters for him. His prosperity increased. It is doubtful if any of his con temporaries painted as many, or of more variously distinguish ed sitters. Webster and Clay, Louis Philippe,and Luizot, Lin coln and Grant, Thiers and Bam- betta and many hundreds more passed before his easel. We cannot help but mention James Abbot McNeill Whistler who was born in Lowell, Mass, in 1834. He attended West Point but was discharged for a chem istry deficiency. He found other employment, but left that to go to London where years later he made his name as a painter. More than any other region of America, the South is haunt ed by its past. In song and in story its past is gracious and warmly romantic; it is also The South’s social framework filled with tragedy and violence, was formed by English aristo crats who established many of the early colonies. Their sons who were reared in true “cava lier” tradition became gallant officers for the Confederacy. Also from England came the rural settlers to the South who provided the base for the demo cratic traditions of Andrew Jack- son. Southern mountaineers in isolated farming communities still sing Elizabethan ballads much like the English of Shake speare’s time. And from Africa came the Negro to work the cotton fields, and add to the South his rich blend of sorrow and humor and his awe at the supernatural. Probably the fin est contribution to American folk music is the Negro spirit ual. A wealth of spirituals ori ginated at St. Helena Island off the coast of Beaufort. Nell Gray don in her “Tales of Ed- isto” vividly describes how mu sic has always played a part in the lives of the Negroes along the Carolina coast. The songs have been handed down orally for generations. Stephen Collins Foster, the greatest American composer of folk music, wrote many songs about the South. It is too bad that the original words have been changed in all of his Negro dialect songs. • The theatre remained a part of Southern social life even dur ing the War. We remember it was in the Ford Theatre in Washington, D. C. that Lincoln was shot. It is interesting to note that the Dock Street Theat er is one of the landmarks of Charleston, and I am proud to mention the Opera House in our own home town. Between 1861 and 1865 some of the playwrights occasionally took their themes from the war, sometimes dramatizing events almost as soon as they happen ed. During this time the plays that were performed by the most successful companies were in main standard British pieces. Of course, many actors left the stage to join the colors; others used their talents to entertain the soldiers. During the 1860’s the most brilliant company in America was under the Wallack banner. It is said that it could not have been matched except by com bining the best actors of a doz en companies in America. It was a company of comedians of whom Wallack was one of the best. Some of the outstand ing actors of the company were Madelin Henriques, John Gil bert and Mark Smith. Another great actor of the time was Edwin Booth, the son of an actor and brother of John Wilkes Booth. Edwin was well cast in many Shakespearean pro ductions and also did memorable performances of Julius Caesar. After his brother shot President Lincoln, Edwin Booth retired from the stage for several months. He returned and was as great as ever. . In 1850 Jenny Lind, “Swedish Nightingale” made her debut in America due to the efforts of P. T. Barnum. She captured her American audience not only by her voice, but also by the grac iousness and generosity of her nature. She married a Boston pianist in 1852 and returned to England later that same year. Major Wicker given medals ROME, N.Y.—U. S. Air Force Major Arthur R. 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