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Tlitle, Nof.ed.Arfisj Presents Library
Qriainal Scenes As Prince Memorial
By Robert Kelly
Walter Tittle, internationally
known etctier, painter, and author,
has recently presented 12 of his
.original dry point engravings to
the UNC library as a memorial
to the late William Meade Prince.
This collection represents Tit
tle V distinctive interpretation of
sculpture and architecture. At the
me otitfoA pvef entation, the don
or expressed "the hope that other
artists would make similar con
tributions, and this is anticipated.
At present the library has a
total of 35 etchings, dry point en
avmgs and lithographs made by
Steele. Of these, 21 are portraits
famous American and English
men of letters.
Prince, who died last year,
spent his boyhood days here and
returned a few years ago to make
&iapel Hill his permanent place
($ residence. He was a student at
the New York School of Fine and
Applied Arts from 1913 until
1915 when he was married to Lil
lian Hughes. .
Nationally Known Illustrator
From the time of his graduation-
until the time of his death,
, Prince was nationally known as
an illustrator. His work appeared
regularly in a number of the na
tion's leading magazines. An ex
161 tit of his work opened in the
Morehead building last weekend.
His reputation as an author was
established in 1950 when his
book, "The Southsrn Part of Hea-v
yen" "was published. Today,
some two years after publication,
this book is a bestseller in North
Carolina and ranks high in popu
larly throughout the United Stat
es. Po-'iice a native of Roanoke,
Va., accepted a position as lec
turer in the University art de
partment in 1939. During World
War II years, although busily en
gaged in numerous projects, lie
accept id an emergency appoint
ment as head of the department.
Magazine Illustrator
Tittle was born in Springfield,
Ohio, in 1883. He studied in New
York under William M. Chase and
Robert Henri, and has illustrated
most of theleading magazines in
the. United States and many
abroad.
His first exhibition of dry point
engravings was held at the Art
Institute of Chicago in 1918. Since
then his works have appeared in
most of the major art museums
in the United States and England,
as many other foreign countries.
To show Tittle's growth in
popularity as an artist in 1922 the
British Museum pruchased 24 of
his dry point engravings. Today
they own 111 examples of his
work.
In 1942-43 he did a number of
portraits of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt from personal sittings.
From these experiences, he wrote
the book, "Roosevelt As An Artist
Saw Him," published in 1948.
The artist's works are not new
to North Carolinians. A large ex
hibition of his work was shown
by the University library two
years ago.
It was just prior to this exhibi
tion that Tittle came to Chapel
Hill to deliver an oil portrait of
Dr. Archibald Henderson, which
now hangs in the library. At this
time, ' Librarian Charles E. Rush
met the celebrated artist and in
vited him to lend examples of
his work for an exhibition.
Portrays Famous Men
While no artist could possibly
portray all of the famous men of
his. time, Tittle has an excellent
record along this line, which be
gan when Warren G. Harding was
running against James Cox for
the presidency.
It was suggested to Tittle, since
he and the two candidates were
all natives of the isame state, Ohio,
that it would be apropriate if he
were to make portraits Of the two
politicians.
This he did. The portraits met
with immediate approval and
were widely circulated through
out the country in newspapers. At
the same time a friendship devel
oped between the artist and Har
ding, which resulted in an invi
tation to the White House to do
more portraits of the President.
This friendship brought about
an engagement from the State De
partment for the artist to do por
traits of the many famous men
who would attend the Naval Dis
armament Conference, held in
Washington in 1921-22.
This commission resulted in 24
portraits of such mne as Lloyd
George, Aristride Briands, Sir
Auckland Geddes, Lord Balfour,
and many others. This series of
pictures was bought by leading
art museums throughout the
World, among them the Library
of Congress and the British mu
seum. Since that time he has done
portraits of such men as Shaw,
Charles Evans Hughes, Elihu Root
and Joseph Conrad.
The people of North Carolina
can appreciate even more the fine
accomplishment of the late Wil
liam Meade Prince when they
realize that a native of Ohio and
a resident of Connecticut has do
nated his own work to honor him.
DAILY CROSSWORD
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A new exhibit from the Mus
eum of Modern Art in New York
ic now on display in Person hall
art 'gallery here and will continue
through April 3.
About 20- paintings are includ
ed in the exhibition, which is
entitled "Calligraphic Geometric:
Two Recent Linear Tendencies in
American Painting." Artists re
presented include ' Graves, Tobey,
Pollock, Nack, Hayter, Reinhardt,
Knaths, Gray, Holty, Conover and
others. ' '
The exhibition reflects the two
distinctly defined new schools
of painting formed by young
American modernists during the
forties, says John Allcott, head of
the art department here.
"First to develop the magnitude
of a movement, free from calli
graphic expression includes not
only the West Coast painters
Graves and Tobey under the in
fluence of Oriental art, but also
the more abstract East Coast
group, influenced by Hans Hof
mann and indirectly by Kandin,
sky," he said.
"Growing rapidly since the
war's end is, an opposing tendency
among young artists toward geo
metrical structure. Where the the
first group following its sources
in the Orient and in Kandinsky,
ranges the romantic scale from
the mystical poetry of Graves to
the bold expressionism of de
Kooning, this second . group,
while it, has its own poetry, is
more deliberate and almost cub
ist in its expression.
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