Winthrop Show to Fight Art Apathy

"Our Winthrop House Show is intended to fight and break down the complete indifference on the part of the College to creative art and painting," John Cumming '41, one of the painters exhibiting pictures in the show opening today in the Winthrop House Senior Common Room, stated yesterday.

"We are trying to work up interest in a course that will get away from the stodgy, academic way of Fogg Museum, and to give the students some practical instruction in an art that interests a great many of the undergraduate body."

The Winthrop House Show, which is the first for this house, and the first all-student exhibition limited to the members of one house, has several promising arists entered, among them Cumming, Eliot Richardson '41, Lampoon cartoonist, Edward Weren '42, and Paul Hollister '41, well-known for the exactitude of his work.