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rt and Handicraft Contests N EXHIBIT of 134 oil paintings by members of Ontario Women's Institutes made an impressive showing in the club 00mg of the Salads Tea Company in Toronto n the afternoon of August 13. The paintings ad been entered in a competition arranged y the Salada Tea Company in conjunction vith the biennial Tweedsmuir Cup Competi- for the Women's Institutes of Canada. The Tweedsmuir program includes a competition in compiling community histories. a cultural project and a handicraft. This year the Fed. ei'ated Women's Institutes of Canada chest» for their cultural project the painting of a Canadian landscape and the Salada Tea Coni- pnny offered prizes on a provincial level. Judges of the competition were the well knoWn artists, Palmer and Casson. and their wmrm I955 tions sponsored by Lady Susan Tweedsmuir Miss Lewis, committee (onvciier and Mrs. Marl‘liutlcr, President F.W.|.O.' at the exhibit of puiiilings in the Women's lnslilure Twecdsmuir competition. The first prize puinling by Mrs. Mabel Grundtisch cl Pcom Bridge lnslilule is on the easel cil Ihc right; Ihe second prize painting by Mrs. McBride oi Wulker1on on the easel (II the In“. mininciits \\'l'l‘L' [lint 1hr1 work was mill illitn‘.‘ the standard of the tl\'t‘|'ill.‘.(‘ tll'lltlll‘lll' L‘Ulllpk“ tition. There was no crude Work and \'Di‘_\' little cwdcnrc ril‘ copying 71hr painters hail iiiz-iclc th'li“ $liL‘ll'llC‘S i‘rnni urinal landscapes and must of them sliowi-d :in :ippi'criulion :iiirl lou- of the oul-nfâ€"(luors Thei- miinncyrl in put some of this feeling llllt) [llt'll‘ work. The most common \k‘i'illillt‘fi'fi. thi- iiir‘igvs felt, was a tendency til’ the artists in pain! :i landscape exactly its they stiw ll, lllt' l':ii|iii'i- to see that it” is :in interpretation of nature, not “(11in iil'i1.nnd that the Hillel Iiiiisl swim-l and arrange and (lk'filtln lth‘ Ulilll‘l'lle llt'lUl'l‘ him. "Sometimes." Mr, l‘nlmt-r snirl, "1lit-i'~ is Illfil‘t' in limiu‘llig \K‘l'ltll ll) ll'.’i\'i' iilll iii llii' picture than whiil in put in." Tlir' jiiiligm l‘t-Il that for :mi'uni- wanting; In paint, s 'IH” iiiiiil élllt't‘ from H gnarl ll‘Eli'llt‘l' l‘lLLlEll ill the SI ll'i is very imporltinl. lVll', C‘iissnn suggested lllitllllt‘l‘ lll‘lI). tun, lll‘ l'ci'ls wry strongly lli:ii lllt' I)r-p:ii'lnii~iii nl Erliiciitiiin might well svl up :i ll'lll‘li Will] :in II‘ISlt'Ut'ltIi' to L1“ Hill in illilflll'llt' groups (I\'l‘l the [ii'rn'im'i- illlll \llI'IW lilt‘lll linw lU llll)‘ iIIHl liiinrlli- lTltlll‘l‘lillb. Mrs. Gordon Mllt'l’llillll‘l'. l'i‘i-sirli-iil .ir thr- l"l'lll'l‘¢'lll‘ll VVUmr'n's lllhlllllll'h‘ (ll Oiiliii'in lllt'llllU'l'l llll“ Sulzitlzi Tr-ii ('fllllplll'l)' llu' llivii' uUnE'JTILlh dtiriiitiiin ril' pri/i-s :Inrl :iiiiiiiiiiir-i-rl 1h“ wiririi-m in the ('Hlllpl'lllllIJL 'l'lii- lll‘hl prim nl‘ "fill \\'(I1l in Mrs. MriliI-I (ii‘iinrllisi-Ii uf Pt‘ilt‘t‘ )ii‘iiliii' lllsllllllt‘ Ill Wr-Ilniirl t'llllllll“, ll'ir- si'r'rii'ir‘l iii‘m- (ll $25 in lVli‘r: Ml'lil'lfli" ril' Wnlkr-i'lriii. Hilii tint-Ir riir-iillnii Willi $10 \\':'|i~ :iwui'rii-rl to Mrs, H. A. linwlnnrls’ l-';|ii“;_vrmm Insfinuii', Mi~ H Hllmll. Mnri'lrJt l'ii'nrir'h; Mm. Poinlings receiwnq honourable mention, or hiqhusl stair inq for East, (cnlre, West and Norlli areas were: lcll side lrom top to bottom by; Mrs. R. Ellioll‘, Morrish branch; Mrs. C. D. Gray, Hawthorne; Mrs, Sievenson, Combcrmcrc: Mrs. Allon MzAllislcr, Wliilumnn's Creek. Righl side. lop lo bollom; Mrs, H‘ A. Rowlands, Fairgrovc; Mn, T, C. Holland, Vittorio; Mrs. J. M. DeMurbois, Huyir ville; Mrs. Joan M. Bowman, lliornloc 27