Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-07
MODERN ART.
ART EXPORTS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND
THEIR PROBABLE RESULT.
What is Being Done to Cultivate Artist {
Tastes-7be Coming E1-
h.bition.
SIX Fs.Nc1scn Mar4 1851

has gone everywhere among the people,
especially stirring among the women, who
have developed capabilities of application
and reserves of working ambition which
before this general movement would have
been ridiculed, scornfully suppressed Oh
resolutely cried down. Especially has there
been sincere reaching cut toward art IL
all its branches. and the eye, ear and hand
Of the next generation will be higher by
several grades in culture for the effort we
have made toward art in dress, decoration,
expression by voice and sign, and more
than this, for the effort we make toward
being something as we'll as doing some.
thing. One may be optimist enough, per
haps, to believe that it all works together
for good, and is plain part OF the well
laid plan which provides for
THE ULTIMATE PERFECTION
OF the worlds people by slow bat lasting
growths. Sometimes the effort seems ride.
ulously small, but when you think of it as
belonging to a grand whole, it doesn't
seem laughable. The schoolgirl whose
yearnings toward art is wrecked upon
reefs that take her beyond single-thread
tattipg, chain-stitch crochet and Java tides
done in cross stitch, fulfills her mission.
So she does when she advances further and
takes Holbein and Kensington work. She
is still patiently doing her best when she
is impelled to embroider the collar, cuffs
and belt OF her dress, and when this edu.
cation, step by step, has taught her some
thing of house-furnishing, of hangipgs
and decoration and all the beautiful
about dwelling, then is she ar
influence indeed. "And departing leave
behind us footprints on the sands of
time" The energy of women, being en-
couraged to lie dormant. has never had
such life as now. Now there are hundreds
of busy women in America longing to be
about something, aud the way to art hiss
seemed to open itself. How many women
do you suppose struck fire all over the
country at that article in the last Harper s
Magdziae, on the study of pottery in Gin
cinnati? Miss Louise Mclaughlin not
only helred herself when she set indefati-
gably to work at faience, but her success
inspired thousand other women. RGsina
Emmett has put courage and perseverance
into the endeavors of how many, because
she dared to try for ard win Prang's first
prize, and Mary Halleck Foote, with her
exquisite designing power, has been a
blessing to those cropping through the dark
after the light. To come very near home,
Matilda Lott, our own genius, our little
ANIMAL PAINTER,
Has led the way for her weaker sisters,
and in many of the modest little ateliers
there is a whisper too small to be heard ::
{" Matilda Lott did go well as to 60 to
Paris studying; perhaps can, too. J"
What a world of cheer it gives. l could
name you without hesitation dozen am
bilious young women among US who devote
their time to art, aspiration pr1cks on a
hundred more, and few there are who have
not gained smattering on the subject.
The books at the public libraries on house
and porcelain decoration are in demand,
and at the time of their publication Ola
renee Cooks papers IN " Scribner" on
house furnishing were eagerly read here.
The Society of Decorative Art of Callfor-
MIA is an outgrowth OF this general interest
and ambition. It's impulse is to establish
a means for the sale of art and fancy work
by women, and to form free classes for IN
struction in all kinds OF decorative work.
All articles sold at their depot will
be at commission OF 10 per
cent, thus forming revenue for the
necessary demands of the Society. Among
the ladies permanently interested IN this
work are Mrs. Jerome Lincoln, Mrs. W. 5.
Coleman, Mrs. Charles Croker, Mrs. Geo.
Hearst. Mrs. Andrew McF. Davis, Mrs
Albert Dibblee, Mrs. J. G. Kittle, Mrs.
d. o. Mills, Mrs. d. J. Tallant, Mrs Frank
Pixley, Mrs. F. F. Low, and Mrs John
Parrot, and every name carries weight
with it. The younger ladies connected
with the management are Mrs. j. &. Mer-
rill, Miss Parrott, Miss Coleman, Miss Nc
Lane. Miss Thibault, Miss Mcdowell and
Miss Emily Talbot, the artistic taste OF the
latter being especially commented upon. She
has also library of three thousand vol
umes, which is perhaps as large library
collection as any young lady IN our neigh
borhood can boast of. These and other
ladies associated with them, perhaps to
bring the Society of Decorative Art into
public notice, and at the same time by
filing its treasury put 1t into active
operation, have inaugurated an Art Loan
Exhibition, which must also indirectly
serve as another step toward the education
of the unlearned. The managers OF the
society are all people of wealth, known to
US as our wealthy class, as people who
have been abroad and whose houses are
naturally filled with treasures, with brio
a.brac, with articles OF vertu, with dra-
peries and with pictures people outside
their own circle never have, but would be
glad to have a chance to see. Each has
contributed from out his private collection,
and friends and friends friends have done
the same of
THE QUAINT, THE CURIOUS,
The antique and the beautiful The exhi
bitiou is held in the rooms appropriated by
the Art Association and School Of Design,
and Virgil Williams, of the School Of De.
sign, is of the Advisory Committee. The
articles loaned far exceed in number the
most sangune hopes, and four rooms well
filed are thrown open to visitors, the cane
of the male visitor being rigidly denied adj
mission on account of the mischief 1t some
times works on pictures and statuary. In
one OF these rooms devoted to ORIENTAL and
decorative art various ticketed articles
with marked prices are on sale, some
already bearing the fateful legend, " Sold. "
AS before remarked, these bring ten per
cent. to the Society, with the fifty cents
charged for visitors admission, establish,
ing fund which it is hoped will
warrant the immediate establishment
OF the class for instruction. AS
a hint at the prices demanded a small
bracket near the door was marked ST.. a
panel of wood under the little shelf was
painted exquisitely painted-wish honey
suckles so natural you could almost catch
their perfume. Let us hope the bracket
will bring Sl2. 1t is very needful that
some exchange of this sort should be estab,
lished here, since so many make beautiful
things, but find no market for their talent
Almost any store will receive articles for
ten per cent, but in one instance which
came to my knowledge the deal
er sold the picture, flower piece,
for SIS, but represented the sale at q much