Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-02
A NoTsBLE WORK.
An Exquisite Piece of Art Work for the
state Fair.

| Bovee says the art of a thing is first its
aim. and next its manner of accomplish
ment. There is 10 be exhibited at the State
Fair next week an art work the aim OF
which is distinct, and the accomplishment
| perfection and tribute to genius. Decorat-
| i've art, more than any other, has become pop
ular in recent years. 1t has entered every
home and contributed forms of beauty
| to delight the eye, charm the sensibilities
and elevate the taste. The people have
been educated up to higher standard of
Judgment of things graceful tasteful and
ornamental, in the last decade. All around
us are evidences of the desire and the
ability to ornament and at times, in its
exuberance. this manifestation becomes,
as Mason phrases it, misplaced and vulgar
by subordinating utility to mere display.
In the west gallery of the great Industrial
Hall next week will be unveiled a master
piece of decorative art. 1t is of
the class known as window
dressing, and is admittedly the largest,
richest and most skillfull of any window
decoration ever before attempted. 1t is an
exact representation of the great organ Of
Boston, the largest in America, with its
manuals, SO stops and 1000 pipes
-One-third siZe-and is worked out
wholly in silks, satins, velvets, laces, hand
kerchiets, artificial flowers, toilet brushes,
pearl buttons and onyx shawl pins. The
artist, s. B. Suits, of Boston, who designed
and executed it, came from the East es-
pecially for the purpose, and claims it to be
the finest work he has ever done, though
for years admitted to stand at the head of
his art in the United States and although
the finest displays of the kind at the Cen
tennial Exhibition were the work of his
hands The background is brown vel
veteen; the basic figures in PAPER nldchie /;
the frontal pipes in silks and satins the
carvings and holdings of laces the key
boards of nail and tooth brushes; the stops
represented by pearl buttons; the pipe
mouths by onyx pins. In the pedestal
panels are the names Handel, Cherubinl,
Haydn, Chuck, Palestrina, Mozart, and be-
meath the pediment of the banks of keys, the
words Gloria in Excelsis." The hooded
towers of the chief groups of pipes are
eXquisitely ornamented with heavy lace
holdings. The lower panel holdings
are all of rich lace, and what will seem
strangest to the behOlder, it is all of one
piece the combinations being carried on III
the interior of the organ. The beautiful
work, than which nothing like it, nor half
50 elaborate, FOR approaching it in grace OF
design and beauty of execution, has ever
before been attempted, occupied the deco
rator and his assistants from August 18th
to nearly the close of the last month. The
design stands in a show case 80 feet in
length by 2S in hight and some y feet in
depth, finished in black woods and crystal,
and is the largest show case ever con-
l,o g. H. &c Nnl
in exquisite taste, with lace hangings over
of fans. The whole lower front is
of plate glass of finest quality.
Only the great weight prevented the finish
ling of the whole front in plate. Across the
middle bar, and on either end is the name
of the firm, which has at its own cost made
this splendid contribution to the display for
1SS4-Weinstock q Lubin, importers. The
only figures in the work are the PAPER
machie pedestal busts named, the crowning
ornamental carved figures represented in
profile designs, miniature bust Of
Walcker of Ludwigsburg, the builder
of the great Boston organ, and two
exquisite female figures in elegant cos
tunes, standing at either corner of the in
strument, and in advance of it, in posi-
ton as if enraptured with the view. As a
whole, it a is remarkable piece of handi
work, an exceedingly costly structure, and
triumph of decorative art such as has not
been seen upon the Pacific coast and fully
repaying a trip to the fair TO view its eX-
quisite proportions, its wonderful details,
and the result of the magic that out of so
few materials has evoked such a marvellous
thing Of beauty, that testifics, as it grows
upon the beholder the longer he gazes, that
Art is Power, and that there are forms of
Il
the soul and the eye as we'll as the works Of
the loftier realms of art that glorify the
Louvre or the Vatican, or distinguish the
galleries Of Nemice or Munich.