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VOL. X
DECEMBER 15, 193 3
NO. 3
Warm Sunset Glows
“Your friend is your needs answered”,
said Kahlil Gibran. This is just as true
today as it was seventy years ago. It was
true seventy years ago when the Negroes
were given their freedom from slavery. The
true friends of the Negro were made known
when they answered the great needs of the
Negro.
One of the most pressing needs of that
day was education. Only the most under
standing, and sympathetic teachers could
answer this need. Many noble women of
the north were quite ready and willing to
devote their lives to this work, and through
their efforts and the help of northern phi
lanthropic societies the Negro was given an
opportunity to climb the ladder of learning
and culture.
One of these noble characters for whom
the Spelman community had a memorial
exercise Thanksgiving day was Lucy
Hale Tapley, who devoted thirty-seven years
of her life to the development of Negro
youth. This service was especially signifi
cant, because the speakers presented pic
tures of Miss Tapley that will probably re
main in the minds of those present and
will be remembered whenever tliev think
of Miss Tapley, as great literature returns
to us to give us power.
The most vivid image of Miss Tapley
and the one that served as a sort of theme
for the entire service was the one presented
by Dr. E. R. Carter, pastor of Fried-
ship Baptist Church. He compared her life
with the beauty of the sunset. He brought
to our minds the fact that very few people
are awe-struck at the rising of the sun, and
no one thinks much of the light and bright
ness of the sun until it sets. One then
sees these beautiful rays, and marvels at
the things that this ball in the heavens
can do. “So", said Dr. Carter, “was Miss
Tapley’s life. With the closing life, peo
ple are able to look back and see the rays
of sunshine that have been present through
out the best years of her life, and now
they are awe-struck just as people who ob
serve the sunset are awe-struck. The other
speakers were unable to add anything to
this beautiful picture, but they did reflect
from many different angles those rays of
sunlight in each one of their tributes to
Miss Tapley.
Don’t jump to conclusions too quickly
for often they are wrong ones.
Art Exhibits
A.vnlizabeth Madison, ’34
Thirty paintings from the brush of Mrs.
Farnsworth Drew, Atlanta artist, were
transported, the week of November o, from
the local High Museum of Art to Atlanta
1 diversity, where they were shown in the
exhibition hall of the University Library
for eight days.
On November 5, at the afternoon formal
opening under the auspices of the Art De
partment of Atlanta University, Mrs. Drew
spoke to the visitors concerning art appre
ciation. She compared art to the bridge
which connects different nations and is a
span between races. Over this bridge of
the arts, people may come together and ex
change their national and racial heritages.
In the collection, which was the first of
a series to be shown at the University Li
brary this winter, were a number of sea
scapes which Mrs. Drew painted during the
many summers and occasional winters she
has spent on Sea Island, twenty-five miles
off the coast of Nova Scotia. To this island,
where she established a studio twenty-eight
years ago, it was impossible to go except
during certain tides and smooth water.
The artist is a native of Wisconsin,
studied at the Art Students ’ League in
New Y ork City, and spent seven years in
study abroad, three of them in the Julian
Academy in Paris. Here she came to know
many of the famous artists of the period,
who influenced her development more than
did her teachers. For many years she main
tained a studio in New York City as well as
on Sea Island.
Allan Freelon, well known member of the
Gloucester group of painters and etchers,
exhibited a comprehensive and colorful col
lection of his paintings and prints at the
Atlanta University Library Exhibition Hall
for two weeks beginning Sunday, Novem
ber It). These pictures were the second of
a series of public exhibitions to be spon
sored by Atlanta University, and arranged
by Mr. Hale Woodruff, head of the art
department.
Mr. Freelon, one of the best known con
temporary Negro painters, studied at the
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, at the
Barnes Foundation at Merion, Pennsyl
vania, and with Hugh Breckenridge, A. N.
A. Since 1922 he has been assistant to
the director of art education of the Phila
delphia public schools. He is a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania.
Freelon’s work, as displayed at a pre
view at the I niversity, shows a colorful
series of seascapes and landscapes in which
the fishing fleets of Massachusetts’ famous
North Shore are an integral part. His
paintings have been exhibited frequently
at the principal galleries of Philadelphia,
in New York City and at Gloucester. This
is the first showing of his paintings in
the south. There can be no doubt in one’s
mind as to the unusual artistic ability of
Mr. Freelon after having enjoyed the beauty
of the pictures on exhibition.