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Morrill hall, 14th and U, is a spot on the campus where everyone is very
welcome. In most of the campus buildings, while by no means barred, one
is likely to be run down by a horde of young things charging to a class.
As they outstrip one on the stairs he is left acutely aware of his
brittle old bones and the fact that from college days he can recall
offhand only two French verbs and one theorem.
In this hall—named for Charles H. Morrill, Nebraskan who did a great
deal for the university—you may saunter and look, and look and saunter.
The art galleries are in the two top rooms, the museum on the two below.
Dwight Kirsch of the university art department caught this particular
slant of sun into the upper art gallery.
Like the native Chicagoan who never heard of Hull House, we know too
little about what we have at our own doors. The Nebraska art association
has built up a fine collection of paintings. Each year it holds an
exhibit, and the fact that it buys one or more pictures every year
brings in a collection worth inspecting. The late Mr. and Mrs. F. M.
Hall of Lincoln bequeathed their collection to the university, also a
fund for further purchases.
Among the valuable paintings by modern artists owned by the art
association are the late Grant Wood’s “Arnold Comes of Age,” one of
Thomas Hart Benton’s vigorous paintings, “Lonesome Road” and John
Steuart Curry’s “Roadmender’s Camp.”