HAROLD "BUCK" WEAVER
Claremont, pleasant college
town, offers strong art attractions just now. The Lang Galleries at Scripps
College, having rolled up record attendance with a pre-Columbian sculpture show,
are now filled with an exhibit of 300 drawings by old and modern artists that
tops any drawing show yet seen in Southern California. Arranged by Millard
Sheets, it is on view daily, 2 to 5 p.m. to Dec. 8. Pomona College Gallery, a
few blocks away, has its Art of Western America exhibition which consists of
paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings done during the past 50 years by
Artists who depicted the Indian, the cowboy and their land. Don Louis Perceval
of Pomona's art staff, himself a painter of such subjects, assembled this
exhibit from artists and collectors. Central pictures in the western exhibit at
Pomora College Gallery are Maynard Dixon's "The Cloud World" in which
clouds form a repeat pattern above miles of red mesas; an early buffalo picture,
"Where Great Herds Come to Drink," by Charles M. Russell, and James
Swinnerton's large, just finished "Mt. Agathia," pointing skyward from
the floor of Monument Valley. These and paintings by Walter Ufer, Oscar
Berninghaus, Ernest L. Blumenschein (whose "The Plasterer," lent by
Rupert Hughes, might well be his masterpiece), Frank Tenney Johnson and others
are shown with some of Russell's, Jo Mora's and Tex Wheeler's vigorous bronze
sculptures of cowboys and thier horses and wood carvings by John Clarke, the
Indian sculptor, and Nicolai Fechin, who is also represented by a painting of
Taos.
Pastorals Stand Out
"The Sheep Herder" by Hans Paap of Taos and Ufer's "Indian in
Cornfield," from the County Museum, are outstanding pictures. Buck Weaver,
who has guided many a painter into western country, has three landscapes, of
which "Desert Storm," with its remarkable feeling of distance and
rain-filled air, is especially impressive. Still other artists of the West
represented are Carl Oscar Borg, Kathryn W. Leighton, Philip R. Goodwin, Franz
Geritz, Edgar Alwin Payne and the Indian water colorists, Harrison Begay, Hoke
Denetsosie, Gerald Naylor and Yel Ha Yah.