Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-27
ART NOTES.

Mr.. Borglum. the painter of Staging
in California, which was purchased by
Hancock Banning, is doing very we'll in
Paris. Mr.. Gates, who is studying with
Mr.. Borglum in the Julian school at
Paris, intends returning home within a
few months.
Mrs. st. John, who has made reputa-
tion in this city during three years
sojourn, has vacated her studio and will
leave for New York the coming week &;
from thence with her son, who is also an
artist of promise, she will return to
Paris, her former home.
David Neal, the famous painter OF
Charles Stuart and Cromwell, has re-
turned to gan Francisco, from which
place, a decade ago, he started for Ger
many, where he won his laurels. He
has received commissions for the por-
traits of G. D. Crocker and G. P. Hunt
ington.
Mr.. A. F. Harmer, formerly we'll
known in this city, has q studio in San
Francisco. During the past four years
Mr.. Harmer has been on an extensive
sketching tour through Old Mexico.
Most of the illustrations in the new
magazine, The Californian, were exc
cuted by him.
San Jose is to have an art gallery.
by a gentleman of that place, lately de-
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paintings and sculpture is bequeathed
to the city, the proviso being the erec-
tion and maintenance of free gallery
ior the collection. This condition has
been accepted, and $1,000 appropriated
for the purpose. There is a moral in
this which ought to be the subject of
consideration by cities of more preten-
sions.
During the past month notable ex-
hibition was held at Kugeman's art gall
lery. The collection embraced the three
years. work of the gifted Miss Dural
and was financially success. The gal
lery is now being fitted for the work of
Miss Edith White, Mrs. Giordan and
Miss Regina O'Kane, who require no in
PRODUCTION to those interested in art.
These ladies depart together for New
York. 1t is their intention to enliven
the advanced classes of the Art Stu-
dents league, from which school many
OF the foremost artists have been gradu-
ated.
Mr.. Amadeo McGarry, the former
president of the defunct Artists society.
has a general reputation on the coast,
and as an artist in portraiture he is con-
sidered one of the foremost in the west.
Having had the advantage of foreign
training, he is strong technically, and
shows tendency toward the impression
istic manner. His portrait of Governor
Markham for the capitol at Sacramento
is considered one of his most successful
works.
With exception OF occasional visits
to San Francisco, Mr.. McGarry has been
a permanent resident of Los Angeles for
the past five years, during which time
he has never ceased to advocate
the necessity of an art school
founded on the principle of
national institutions abroad, but he is
firmly imbued with the idea of individ-
ulity, and the encouragement of home
talent. In the east this artist is we'll
known as an etcher of western scenes,
particularly the cold missions" of
California, which are now in
course of publication in book form
with complete history of that venera-
BILE ruin by the artist. OF this unique
collection of etchings the current num-
ber of the Magazine of Art says
"Amadeo McGarry, who some years ago
gave promise of brilliant future and
who afterward found hovel
in the far west, comes to light in new
field; judging from the exam.
pies of his quaint Californian etchings,
now on exhibition at Knoeler's gallery
(New York;, he is in possession OF an
original style OF handling the burin that
places him in the rank of the strongest
American painter-etchers. ="
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A visit to Prof. Eugene Torrey's stu.
dio, in the Potomac block, is rare treat
to those initiated into the subtle myste'
ries OF true arr. Mr.. Torrey was trained
in Paris, where, six years ago, he made
his debut, by the exhibition of a picture
entitled The Accident, which now hangs
in his studio. This painter expresses
himself best by the use of the water
color medium, which he handles with 9
grace and freedom rarely attained. He
is skilled draughtsman and his colol
effects are charming. Like many of the
artists on the coast, Mr.. Torrey's hobby
is the old missions, and subjects O
this class he treats with true painter'l
feeling for the ruined picturesor
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