The morning call., 1893-04-30
WITH THE ARTISTS.
Preparing for the Spring
. Exhibit.
What Some of Our Painters Have
Been Doing and What They
Expect to Do.

What pictures are you sending to the
spring exhibition"
Amedee Joullin looked sadly round his
elegant studio and shook his head, when the
reporter asked this question. The red
Chinese umbrellas. lacquered stools and
oriental gliding shone in all their glory, but
there was not the ghost of picture nor
even of a canvas to be seen.
The fact is" SAID Joullin, half apollo
getieally, II have had no time to paint
The drawings for the Circus Maxlmus took
up all my time"
And you are not sending anything to the
Art Association ?"
"Oh! / may; there Is more than a week
yet. The difficulty with me is to begin !;
when l once start in, get through directly
and Chinatown is quite handy" he added
hopefully. ~ may Just take up nay canvas
and eolors. see model, poul! the picture is
done for the exhibition"
Yes" said Youllin, eff | once get the
courage to begin, shall exhibit next month
all right"
The first thing that strikes the eye just
now IN Arthur Mathews studio is Il picnic
not IN the slang sense OF the word, but the
picture OF an open air Publication, where
number Of pretty girls are feasting and re-
lJlcing under the trees at Z. Campo.
1t was not painted in line for the
Worlds Fair" said Mathews. 80 il is going
to The spring exhibition here"
Arthur Mathews has been devotng con-
siderable time lately to the preparation of
ali article in which he says he has proved
lncOntesiabiy that none OF tie art critics,
from RuSkin downward, ever had the least
IDEA what they We're writing about.
Nv hen | wanted 10 paint my Judith,
studied moonlight effects till my family
thought l had gone crazy" lie observed as
an Instance OF his new theory. After the
picture was painted a noted critic came
along and turned up his nose at it, because
had not used 'asphallum' in the shadows.
l told hun 10 90 and make poultce pave
ments and not advise artists to put brown
tint into gray effects"
And The picture was accepted at the
Worlds Fair?"
Yes, it was accepted, although it is as
conventional TO put asph alum Into moon
light shadows as 10 say How do you do?'
But that is The way with those critics-they
are always tied to tradition"
Like most of the other artists, Ludoyiei
was found in his studio. busy touching UP
his exhibition pictures.
Il intend to show something new TO San
francisco" he observed. Indeed, | NAV
say that tits at the request OF several brother
artists that l am going 10 send landscapes
THIS Time. There are those Cuban views"
be continued, pointing toward two oil
paintings OF tropical scenery; zone repre-
sents the most famous tobacco plantation in
the world, and this view is called On lie
Rocket X Yer.' 1t has never been shown in
San francisco, though in New York It has
hung several times on The line"
ION the Rocket River" is very charming
bit of scenery. and no doubt Ludovici's new
departure Will be appreciated by visitors to
the spring exhibition. But are you
sending no portraits?" was asked.
Yes, II make time probably one in oil
and one in pastel, but the opening day is
ann IL Is hard tn pnt ,daIp 70,
sit that cannot say for certain"
we are al busy preparing for the spring
exhibition, observed Loo Wall. as she
threw lot of greens and yellows onto the
canvas, and ran them into a background.
Most Of us go to the country for the sum
mer after ii is opened"
Where did you find that strange model? ?"
asked the reporter whose attention was
caught by one of the exhibition pictures of
q decrepit old woman who would nave been
prosecuted as witch a century ago.
That ia Miss Dyer" replied the artist
laughing. You have no idea how hunored
we are TO get such q model; she is related
to half the nobility in England"
''And she sat for the picture in San Fran
csco~
Miss Dyer came to California in 40 and
has run through several fortunes since.
We always keep up the fiction that she
poses for amusement, but it is really the
poor old woman's only way of making
living"
Loo Wall will send four pictures to the
exhibition in addition TO Miss Dyer They
are all vigorous portrait studies.
Marem Froelich was at work in her
quaint nld-iashioned studio on large study
of La France roses. 1--WE are ali rushing
our work as the time grows near" She oh
served, "but as this is the only picture in
tend sending l shall have plenty of time to
finish it,"
Il have had very little rest for week. "
said Evelyn Mccormick, with whom hard
work seems to agree. "fhe picture for the
Woman's building has to be finished in a
day or two. and have been working on it
steadily, but 1t is not ready vet"
The canvas to which Miss Mccormick
alluded Is an extensive undertaking. 62xS8.
Ii would be unfair to criticize the painting
until the foreground is finished, but even
as 1t stands ii Is powerful and original
piece OF work, which will probably excite,
like NaGner's music, either extreme ad =
miratl0n or else absolute dislike. No one
would pass II by with Indifference. 1t is to
be named "a Corner in the Arizona Gar
den, Del Monte" and depicts eacti and
other blush green tropical plants standing
out mysterionSly against the safflon back
ground OF February sunset.
i wasted good deal OF time at Del
Monte in consequence of the rain" said
Evelyn Mccormick. ''and as | do not care
to exhibit the same thing twice l shall send
Courtyard OF San Luis Rey Mission which
painted this spring, TO the San francisco
exhibition"
Many of the artists are preparing to follow
| Keith's example and leave the city, for the
summer at least. Hill has left on u tour