Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
BRUSH AND PALETTE.
Interesting Displays mt the Expedition
Representative Works of Local Artists
A Water Color Exhibit Well Worth

Interesting Displays mt the Exposition
Representative Works OF Local Artists
Water Color Exhibit Well Worfh
Inspecting.
About the most interesting department in the
Exposition art gallery is that devoted TO draw
ings for illustrative purposes furnished by the
Century publishers and others. About every
kind of drawing for such purposes known is
displayed. INDIA ink and Chinese white seem
to be the most popular mediums, and they have
been used in almost every way possible. PEN
nells English Cathedrals. Harry Fenn's land
scapes and noted buildings, and e. W. Kem-
ble's famous Southern darky sketches are
mainly done with a pen, the first two. however,
showing excellent work in washes. Others
show that their best works are done in oil;
others again insist on using some color. es-
Pecially those delicate bits Of nature by w.
Hamilton Gibson. who finds It almost impossi-
pie to sketch perfectly and give proper values
In plain black and white, although it Is source
OF wonder how the engravers manage to pro-
duce these selfsame effects through what seems
observed that nearly every artist represented
there are great many of them-have each
their own mannerisms in producing effects
from the broad, vague, misty sketches by
Of Robert Blum. Reinhart. Abbey, Gibson,
Penneil, Fern. Zogbaum Redwood, Kemble,
Boughton, Parsons and many of the most
famous magazine and book illustrators are well
and most character1stically represented.
In the local room of the Exposition art gal
lery is gathered probably the most representa-
tive collection of productions by Pittsburg
talent ever seen here at one time. Those dead
and gone favorites Blythe and Charles, are
each represented by some Of their very best
works. M. B. Leisser, who has been doing
Europe artistically for the last three years;
Miss Eurilda Loomis and Elmer Salisbury, who
are in OF r1ro onnf and raj
Others well known, but whose names cannot be
recalled just at present, have some of their
most clever works on hand. while all Of our
local art laborers each contribute from one to
half dozen pictures and works of art. The
School of Design has room all to itself, to
which every lady student of note during recent
wears contributes work or more. 1t can be
sald that some OF the works exhibited by the
ladies do not lose anything by their proximity
to those by artists of wider reputation.
Among the pictures at the Exposition are
many that have been made familiar to the pub
lie through the medium of prints and etchings
Among the best known may be mentioned q.
\. Turner's Puritan Wedding" Thos Moran's
big Buttes," one of the famous Garden Of
the Gods" series, "The Huguenot Refugees"
several of Hamilton Hamilton's well known
works and many others equally celebrated.
1t is very seldom that the arrangement of
such thing as an art collection is made under
such difficulties as have encompassed Clarence
Johns since he undertook to place the picture
gallery of the Exposition in shape. That he
has succeeded as well as he has done is mat
ter OF qualification, not only to his Immediate
friends but to those who love art for its own
sake. Mr.. Johns has been receiving the warm
est Communications on every hand for his good
work, and should continue to receive 1t, as he
deserves all that he can get. The greatest
difficulty he encountered was the seemingly
total inability of the management to supply
him with light of any description.
The exhibit of the American Water Color
Society forms an interesting adjunct to the
art gallery. Nearly every picture present
bears the name of one distinguished in the art
world. Hamilton Hamilton, Hopkinson,
Smith, Shirlaw, Chase, and others are well
repre- sented. Several of the works are quite
large. One of the most striking of the latter
is Rhoda Holme Nicolps "Scarlet Letter"