Exhibition of ssculpture by C. Warner Williams 1930-

Chicago Sculptor to Exhibit Work and Explain Art to Academy Corps
The Culver Citizen, August, 1930.

An exhibition of sculpture by C. Warner Williams will open at the Culver Memorial Building on Saturday afternoon, August 16th. Culver Summer School is sponsoring this exhibit by the young Chicago sculptor, who was formerly of Indianapolis.

Mr. Williams has recently completed two years of study with Allien Polasek at the Art Institute of Chicago, made possible by a tuition scholarship to the Art Institute award to Mr. Williams by the Daughters of Indiana the last two years.

Previous to coming to Chicago in 1928 Mr. Williams finished in 1926 at John Herron Art Institute where he studied under Myra Reynolds Richards. He has served as Art Director of the Columbia Club in Indianapolis.

He has modeled portraits of many prominent people in that city and Indiana.

He is originally a Kentuckian, three years a student at Berea College, Kentucky, but is known as the Hoosier Sculptor, partly because he was exhibited annually at the Hoosier Salon, where he has been twice a prize winner. He has also exhibited several years at Art Institute at Indianapolis and the Indiana State Fair, where he is an outstanding prize winner in sculpture.

In Chicago he has also exhibited in the Women's City Club, Chicago Art Institute, Hoosier Gallery, Women's Club Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University, Georgian Hotel, Gary College Club, North End Club Chicago, Thurlier Galleries, etc., and at the recent exhibition of childrens' portraits sponsored by the Health Exhibition at which he won the first sculpture prize awarded by a popular vote of six thousand.

Mr. Williams is a very serious worker and has executed some 75 portrait commissions in the past five years.

Mr. Williams will be remembered by some Culver people as having spent the summer of 1928 here, where he modeled portraits of several persons, among them being Susanna Stewart, granddaughter of Mrs. Clemmons Vonnegut and young Milford Hall Davis, small son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Davis. Both of these portraits will be part of the exhibit which numbers about twenty-five bas-relief heads, five full-length bas-relief , five heads in the round, some small figures, and a life size figure in the round.

The latter is a commission completed only last month, of the small son of Carol Shaffer, grandson of Mrs. John Shaffer of Indianapolis. This life-size portrait in the round of the small boy will serve as a fountain figure in the garden of Carroll Shaffer's new home in Winnetka, Illinois.

While in Culver he will give several exhibitions of modeling and will address the various schools on sculpture and select a boy from each school of whom to make a sketch in clay to show them something of how sculpture is made.

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