Telegram-herald., 1891-10-24
NOOKS OF TWO ARTISTS
One Paints By the Sea. the Other
II the Mountains
BOTH ARE II LOVE WITH NATURE
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The artists are coming horne again
The ssadios Of Boston % Sew York
and of PhilacelPhia are exhiniting un-
nlstakable signs - life. When the art
schools 0psn, a. ley Go early IA Oeto-
bsr, th0se srtists sao are enrolled II
tie llsts IF LnstructoFs-and they are
nowadays an interestingly representa-
tive bosiy-nGst bs on hand ia their
city precincts. and the unattached re-
naiRderof the artist world struggles IN
- they may feel ike or may have 10
during many weeks following La
u.ild season such "a tais early fan has
been IN the east. every artist who ia
compelled 70 return u town swears q
mild. artistic swear word, and COM
promises with himseh by doing very
lsttle work until the weather gets more
genuinely faliish-
American artists display Independence
of personal preferences. There is no
section Of the country 70 which il IL the
eorrec. thing % 20. No fashion regu-
lates the locality of farcistic,excur-ion IS
Il does abroad The American artist,
notwithstanding all that has been said
about bis subservienes 20 foreign and
especially French ideas Is thoroughly
self-rsspecting when he betahes HIM
self out OF doors, and seems 10 feel
most particularly snug and eonten'ed
when he strikes a nook uninvaded by
any other slxeteking rambler.
have in mind two artists whom all
the country knows. who go pretty much
-. - arad
have those haunts a good deal 10 them
selves; that Is 70 say. they have seemed
10 make them their own
NJ. g. ii. de Haas. the distinguished
marine painter, generally packs his
traps and is OF in July 70 Marblehead
Neck The painter usually remains
within sound Of the breakers until
sbout 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. TIE
death of Mrs de Haas will seem to
every body who has known the artist
and his wife personally hike peculiar
ly severe loss
Marblehsad Itself is on . rocky penin-
sula. II was planted by colony
away back IN 1868. Little and pinched
81 il was IL sent full regiment to the
continental army. IL WAS here that
Whittier laid the scene Of his skipper
ireson's Ride" the rule, by the way,
being ON a rail. A little over a hun
dred wears ago the town was only sec
ond 90 Boston in population. The en-
barc-o of 1910 ruined the maritime bush
ness of the place, and at the close of
hundred Of her sailors
Marblehead Neck Is across the hsr-
Dor. II has n distinctive picturesque
ness and Is very naturally q haunt for
lovers of coast scenery and quaint
vesfige OF an eastern civilization. The
old houses are luxury TO the relic
hunting taste. But Mr.. de Haas turns
his eyes shorrward ard finds lively
delight in the shaggy lines OF coast and
the brilliant sea eolors 10 be found TO
the eastward on The reefs. This sum
rner Ire acquired studio quarters offer
ing peculiar advantages In a cottage
imminent to the water he fitted up q
summer studio, and from the veranda
he was able 20 command q fine painting
view Of the shore scenery. This veran-
da was SO close TO the SEQ that the
artist was able TO set up his easel there
and carried forward in direct transcript
from nature fine. breezy picture, COW
ering a canvas fve feet wide. Work On