Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-30
PREEHAND NOTES.
tSan francisco Correspondence of the RECORD
UNION

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Green, and strange things have happened in
California. For instance, the first aim of the
State is not exactly art for art, yet Cal
ifornia is the cradle of wonderful future
revolution in one of the most important
domains of art, as many competent critics
have already said. The Marquis of Lorne
epitomizes the matter in his note of thanks
to Governor Stanford for copy of the
" Horse in Notion" which Governor Stan.
ford sent him after the day spent at Palo
Alto. Lord Lorne writes =" You have
put new blood into horse drawing, and
many future painting must show evi.
dence of the study of your Californian
thoroughbreds.
However backward Californians at
large may be in appreciation Of the best
art, the Sacramento judges certainly
showed themselves competent when they
bestowed the gold medal upon
KEITH,
The most inspired landscape painter we
have. Apropos, there is a treat in store for
art lovers. In October Keith has decided
TO make grand sweep of his studio, paint.
ings and sketches, and after exhibiting
them in the Art Association rooms, offer
them for sale. There are ardent studies in
California, moist springs and fiery autumns
at the East, landscapes swimming in the
opal-lighted haze of Indian summer, and
storms in Maine with a livid bar depressing
the horizon, or the wonder of those atmos-
pberic rings relieved on gray clouds, as
perfect as those thrown off by a loco.
motive or simple cigarette-man- power
Keith has Turneresque passion and daring
in loving aud attempt to paint particular
atmospheric effects, and is successful in a
mastery degree. He has also Turner's
fearlessness in the use of the intenser colors
of his palette. He can paint hot day IN
San Rafael, SO that the air fairly trembles
and the sky swoons to a dizzy violet, and
then dawn among gray rocks in the Yo.
semitic Valley, that drips with neutral
tinted dampness. The best charm of these
studies to one who looks long, is an inward,
spiritual grace beyond the scope of most
landscape painters. A darkly green tree
throws far-protecting arm strongly across
the dry bed of a creek, and there is in il
certain human impulse that would have
saved the famished little brook from the
sun, or would bless the place where two
loungers were happy for an hour-you and
your Edwin, Angelina. Or he lets a sombre
oak-he is very sensitive to tree forms
spring firm and lonely in the midst of
\ BLONDE STRETCH
OF bleached ground, and the effect is of a
misunderstood, proudly resisting and re-
served nature. The dreams his canvases
inspire are not these brutality defined anal
ogies either, but vague and inward, things
that cannot be described, only felt. One
pessimistic composition realizes Miss
Phelps phrase ga passion of color" Mr..
Keith sealls it briefly and comicaIly
"Eggsi" The sky is, in fact, cosmic
cussard. a sunset of yellows gore distraught
The rest of the picture is one dreary, COW.
incumbered marsh, and darkness momently
threatens to involve the whole. So much
for description, but when did words ever
bring the wonders of the world OF
form and color before the mind The
strong desire that possesses one is to
sort the sketches for portfolios. a
California set, Maine set-includipg
three Mt. Desert views, little gems-a New
Hampshire set, and so forth, and put them
in the library to fly to at special, inspired,
hungry moments, aud escape, as one does
through the window of poetry, from life's
ugliness into charmed world of heat and
lisping leaves and all external natures
ecstasy of liberty.
One is frequently impelled to give heaven
thanks for mans manifold nature. Born
IN the same heart, of the game love, the
self.same thrill stirs for wonderfully differ
emit objects. Ones deep enjoyment of
keith's sketches for example, does not pre-
vent one from tingling to the finger tips
with pleasure before the love of gorgeous
ness for its own sake expressed in
THEODORE wORE's
New picture at Morris & Kcnnedy's.
1t is study of still life. Following
his pre-Raphaelite proclivity - which
suits the minute eIaborateness of the
work to a triumph-the artist has made the
background two japanese screens, edge to
edge. One black satin, embroidered with
two gold cranes-one OF them too much
brought out, By the way-snd jointed
golden reed from which bird is taking
flight. The waves of the sheet of satin
are produced in mastery manner The
other screen is "oId gold," embroidered
with the red Japanese ounce blossom
The screens are hung directly behind
table ON which, over an elevation in the
center, white satin drapery is disposed in
strong folds. Ga the table stands Japa-
nese vase, all red and gold, and white
enamel, wonderful fer roundness and
smoothness. Into this vase has been
thrust, as it were, handful from that
mournful Offering in TIE Ballad Of Death
" sheaves of brier and many rustcd sheaves,
Ranrotten in rank lands,
Waste marigold and late unhappy leaves,
And grass that fades ere any Of it be mown."
By the vase lies boldly and successfully
foreshortened Japanese lutte, on the body of
which bronze monster, deaths head
with serpent twisting through mouth
and eye.holes, grins horribly. By the
bropzs lie three roses which in some way
give sense of interruption, bringing the
rustic of skirt and light laugh where
they should not be-fowerets of Eden In
truding on the somber trail of the serpent
hors de pTop0S.
THE AUTHORS CARNIVAL
Association has met and defnitively de-
cided upon continuing preparations for
that bewildering pageant. Whatever OPP
posing elements clouded former primaries
has exhaled, and all is limpid co. operation.
What was the botanical Garden of the
Mechanics Fair will be turned into ia
panese tea-garden, to be thronged with
esthetic damsels in Japanese dress. The
Directors have very wisely determined to
have most of their spsctacles upon the
grand stage, for the benefit of those remote,
unfriended beings who actually 90 to the
Carnival to see the tableaux, whose effect is
frustrated by the booths. Besides music
and oysters and the other old stand-bys,
Victor Hugo and an Alexander Dumas
booth promises dramatic grouping and
gorgeousnes7. To guide the numerous HUI
man wills that make up the inner ma
chinery of such an undertaking as the Car
nivsl, TO condense the scattered rays Of
floating capacities and form one sun of rea-
sonable action, is task whose magnitude
that spoiled child, the Public, does not
fully realize, nor should it, for its own
peace. The shekels and unclouded good
humor of the audience are what managers
desire, and the needs of six noble charities
dignity whatever seems not wholly high
and wise when viewed apart from the cause
which krincs "A in ba;no