The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-19
HAUNTS OF TWO ARTISTS.
ONE PAINTS BY TIE SEA, TIE
OTHER IN TaR MOUNTAINS.


William Hamilton Gibson in the Syl-
van hooks of Connecticut's Wash
ington.
(CoDuiqht)
New YoRK, Oct. 1.-THE artists are
coming home again. The studios of Bos-
ton, OF New York and of Philadelphia are
exhibiting unmistakable signs Of life
When the art schools open, as they do early
in October, those artists who are enrolled
in the lists of instructors-and they are
nowadays an interestingly representative
oody-must be on hand in their city pre-
cincts, aud the unattached remainder of the
artist world struggles in as they may
feel like or may have to during
many weeks following. In q mild season
such as this early fall has been in the east,
every artist who is compelled to return to
town swears mild, artistic swear word,
and compromises with himself by doing
very little work until the weather gets more
genuinely fallish.
American artists display independence of
personal preference. There is no section of
the country to which it is the correct thing
to go. No fashion regulates the locality of
artistic excursion as it does abroad. The
American artist notwithstanding all that
foreign, and especially French, ideas, is
thoroughly self-respecting when he betakes
himself out of doors, and seems to feel most
particularly snug and contented when he
strikes a nook uninvaded by any other
ksketching rambler.
have in mind two artists whom all the
country knows, VINO go pretty much every
season to, the same haunts AID have those
haunts good deal to themselves; that is to
say, they have seemed to make them their
own.
NJ F. Fl. de Haas, the distinguished ma
rine painter, generally packs his traps and
is of in July to Marblehead Neck. The
painter usually remains within sound of the
breakers until about the middle Of October,
when things get rather chilly on this section
of the Massachusetts coast, but this season
the illness and death of Mrs. de Haas
brought the seasons work to an end before
September came The death of Mrs. de
Haas will seem TO every body who has known
the artist and bis wife personally like
peculiarly severe loss.
Marblehead itself is on rocky peninsu-
lar. 1t was planted by a colony away back
IN 1855. Little and pinched as it was 1t sent
full regiment to the continental army. 1t
was here that Viii tier laid the scene of his
skipper Ireson's Ride" the ride, by the
way, being on a rail. A little over 100
years ago the town was only second to Bos-
ton in population. The embargo Of 1910
ruined the maritime business of the place,
and at the close OF the war of 1912 British
prisons held 500 of her sailors.
Marblehead Neck It's across the harbor.
has distinctive picturesqueness and is
very naturally haunt for lovers Of coas5
scenery and quaint vestige of an eastern
civilization. The old houses are luxury
to the relic hunting taste. But Mr.. de
Haas turns his eyes shoreward and finds a
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and the brilliant sea colors to be- found
to the westward on the reefs This sum
Iner he acquired studio quarters offering
peculiar advantages. In a cottage immi-
nent to the water he fitted I'D summer
studio, and from the veranda he was able
to command fine painting view of the
shore scenery. This veranda was SO close
TO the sea that the artist was able to set up
his easel there, and carried forward in
direct transcript from nature a fine, breezy
picture, covering a canvas five feet wide
Work on this picture was, as / have said.
sadly interrupted, but it was advanced suffi-
} GENTLY to form the basis of what promises
to be one Of the most brilliant of Mr.. de Haas
recent pictures.
or MINOR rock aud water studies Mr.. de
Haas made a considerable number this sea-
son. To visitors at his New York studio
Mr.. de Haas collection of small studies has
always been fascination. At his sale of
last winter many studies were sold, but not
, few charming glimpses Of our American
coast remain. Although a Dutchman by
birth and education, Mr. de Haas is an Ameri-
can IN sentiment, loyal TO our institutions,
social and political. His easy and cordial
manner make him popular with his summer
as we'll as his winter neghbors.
Several years ago-I don't remember just
how many-a charmingly written and
oharmingly illustrated article describing
"Snug Hamlet and Hometown" appeared
, | in HGrperS' Monthly over the signature of
William Hamilton Gibson. The delightful
Connecticut region pictured on this widely
) read paper surrounds those two interesting
; centers Washington and Newt0wn. New
town has both picturesque and historical
charm. So has Washington. 1t was at
Washington that DIR. Gum ran his famous
: educational establishment, the Gunnery.
: Many distinguished men seem to have been
trained at the old Gunnery. Gibson
; went there in the winters of his
boyhood. Sometime ago when q group
of pupils, set about publishing a sumptuous
memorial volume in which handsome
tribute was paid to the popular pedagogue,
! it was Gibson who supplied the pictures
, and decorative conceits which gave an origi-
, nal charm to the book.
Washington Of to-day might be called a
fashionable place if the word did not imply
a quality wholly inconsistent with the I'M
: conventional beauty of the locality. 1t has
| many fine houses, many artistic devices in
summer house, building, well-kept grounds,
and 50 on. But it escapes the kind of popu,
larity that would destroy its fine quiet and
' reserve.
Mr.. Gibsous house is on the brow of a
hill, finely rolling hill, from which you
look out over delightful valley toward
other hills that grow bluer and bluer to the
horizon. Here, you would say, was all the
picturesqueness reasonable man could ask
for as an artistic browsing ground The
fact that Mr.. GIBBS IN is as loyal TO the Wash
ington region to-day as he was in the days
of the Snug Hamlet article will indicate
that be has found amplitude of material
and inspiration in the slopes and streams,
the meadows and woods of the romantic
region.
Since Mr.. Gibson not only paints but
writes his time must be divided in accord
ance With the exigencies Of the work he has
on hand. He may be said to devote himself
to four distinct classes of work. OF these
classes his writing and his illustrations
make up two. His popular water colors
represent another class. Then he devotes
himself Internationally to botanical studies
which not only form the basis of so many
of his books, but are destined to bear fruit
in a botanical work Of great Importance. OF
which little more than an outline has yet
been prepared.
just now the visitor who goes TO Wash
ington in search of Mr.. Gibson will-If it is
daylght-probably have to follow the