Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-09
THE
ART NOTES.

Mr.. JOHN W. BEATTY has spent several
days at Johnstown taking sketches at the scene
| of the great disaster.
THE Pittsburg Art School will close its pres.
| ent term about the Goth of the month. and will
reopen about the middle Of September.
THE interior by walkley. mentioned in this
column few weeks ago. will be placed on ex-
hibition at the Klackner galleries, in New
York.
ARArHER interesting exhibit in Mayors
| window consists of photographs of all the
members of the present House of Representa-:
| ttves of PENNSYLVANIA. The pictures were taken
| by LIE Rue Lemes, of Harrisburg, and they
impress one rs being very good hkenesses.
Mr.. CLARENCE JOHNS, who spent some
time with one of the first relief parties that
visited Johnstown, has been back at his post in
the Racke gallery for several days. He says
that art matters IN general, and particularly as
relating to the coming display at the new Ex-
position, appear TO partake of the general
paralysis caused by news Of the great food.
APAINr1NG in oil of the South Fork ressr-
voir by George Storm, has bean on exhibition
at Youngs. AS regards execution the work is
neither better nor worse than pictures by Storm
Usually are, but it fails to convey proper i'm
preston of the character of the place and the
size and extent of the lake formed by the dam.
As depicted by this artist the reservoir looks
like duck pond rather than the body OF water
which wrought such fearful havoc In the valley
below.
Mr. GEO, HETzEJ has upon bis easels q
couple of pictures from sketches taken at
Cowanshannoc, on the Allegheny, few miles
above Klttanning. Judging from what Mr.
Hetzel says the country thereabouts would
furnish some very good material for the brush
of the artist, and certainly the two pictures re-
ferred to seem to support such conclusion.
He is also at work upon two other paintings,
both views at Scalp Level. The first is one of
his characteristic works, showing small
stream finding its way down among the rocks
and underneath some fine trees whose branches
mountains, and is somewhat different in char.
acter and arrangement from this arSists usual
style.
THE play of unrestricted imagination in in
terror decoration is often productive of effects
striking if not beautiful, but the jumDling
together of various features of design without
rule or order may result in something startling,
but it will surely be Of questionable desir-
ability Some of the combinations of incon-
gruous designs and colors huddled together in
a most haphazard manner in the form Of
papered ceilings in many of our modern dwell
ings are calculated to strike the observer as
being products of a disordered imagination
veritable nightmares-rather than effects in
artistic interior decoration. If ceiling is to
be decorated in strong colors they require to be
very skilfully chosen SO as to perfectly har-
monize with each other. Colors which are soft
and subdued are far the safest to use for this
purpose, however, and in most cases much the
best. Most rooms are quite small enough and
the ceilings sufficiently low, which appearance
is rendered still more obvious by the crowding
of gorgeous and highly colored decorations
upon the ceiling.