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PAINTINGS OF THE "BUSHES" NEW YORK, N. Y., March 30. Paintings of the "bushes," or half mile tracks of the middle West, by Lee Townsend will be shown at the Montross, Fifth Avenue Galleries, New York City, next week. Town-send spent his boyhood around a county fair ground in central Illinois. At an early age he was galloping horses and making himself useful around the stables. One of his first drawings, a pencil sketch of a thoroughbred horse trained at the local track, won first prize for him at the County Fair Art Show. After finishing high school, he traveled west, where he found some of his first models, the calico ponies of the Indians and quarter horses racing at rodeos. Later he studied at the Art Institute in Chicago and spent a summer drawing and painting around the race tracks in France. While he has exhibited paintings at the National Academy and the Pennsylvania Academy, depicting the racing scenes at the New York tracks, for this exhibition he spent his summers traveling around the "bushes" painting the life he knew and loved as a boy.
