The record-union., 1893-08-05

the painting OF the wave formations are
done cleverly. The Panama subject is
thoroughly permeated with tropical
warmth, the sultry, dead air and almost
su1focating sunshine being suggested and
indicated with the accuracy that can only
be acquired by familiarity with local color
and characteristics. Mr.. Bush has made
a specially Of these tropical pictures for
number OF years past
EMIL oARLsEN.
Emil Carlsen, New York, 49," is
signed TO a pretentious but solid-looking
canvas in the art gallery of the California
building. Mr.. Carlsen is claimed as a
California artist from the fact that he
painted there several years, though prob
ably fewer than he lived in either Boston
or New York. But he is citizen of the
world-that is, of almost every part of it
but Denmark. His heart turns longingly
TO Copenhagen, wherever he may reside,
whether n New York, Boston, Chicago
or san Francisco; and thereby hangs a
tale. his father occupies high position
IN Danish political as well as social life,
! being IN officer in the army.
Fifteen or sixteen years ago, when the
| boy was not yet much beyond his legal
age, he received Information unotficially
that he was expected to enter the army,
and, after few years of service in a
private capacity, be raised to an officers
rank, his future position to be governed by
the adaptability shown. But the young
man had other views for himself "The
ponp and circumstance of glorious war;
had no attractions for him; though in the
military school which he had attended for
time he had had his own sanguinary
combats with other fiery students, and he
mad shown no small amount of skill as a
| sWordsman on number of these occa-
, slons. So, when he found that he could
not evade doing military duty any longer
ne stole off quietly one day, got over the
| frontier by rare good luck, and a few
! hours later was in Paris, He had studied
art good deal in Copenhagen, and gave
| himself loose rein among the masters in
the french capital, with the result that he
gained fair standing. Through his
fathers influence, and by means of per-
| sonal nlendShip felt for him by several
/ GoYernment officials and police officers
IN his immediate neighborhood, he con-
| trlves once in while to steal home for a
lew days occasionally after advising his
Official friends that he is intending 10 do
so, and getting tacit promise that they
will warn him when it it is necessary for
him to get over the frontier. Sometimes
MS warnings come at very unprOpitiouS
times, and his scurryiug to get on to for
elgn SOIL are laughable as well as dra-
matte.
BE was at banquet-table in Copen-
hagen one evening some years ago when
note was slipped into his hand. 1t
read: An officer has been sent for you.
lie VIII be behind your chair in five min
utes. You must depart at once" He
was hungry-he had Just speared and put
INTO his mouth the first oyster OF the first
course, and had taken one little sip of his
preliminary glass of sour wine; but he
knew what the warning meant. Two
more oysters went down at once, washed
by reckless swig of wine, and he was
on. A friend was waiting outside with
sleigh into which he was bundled uncere-
moniously and it bore him away. In
telling the story of this escape atterward
he says that the longer he rode the hun
grler ne got and the more he thought of
his friends enjoying themselves at the
banquet the madder he got. He thinks
that incident alone, if he were politically
inclined, would make him a revolution
lst. Inc painting whose contemplation
caused this story to be resurrected from
the mind is superb picture of still life
brass, copper and stone utensils of
kitchen furniture being painted broadly
and effectively against dark gray back
ground.
AMEDEE JOULLIN.
Those who are interested in the deni-
Zens Of filthy Chinatown in San Francisco
and like to look at some of their peculiar
religious" ceremonies without having
their ears pierced by the heather din or
their cuticle outraged by a possible con-
tamlnation of leprosy will be interested
in two views of the interior OF a loss
house, with the devotees at their in
carnations, painted by Amedee Joullin. a
native Californian. In one of the pictures
a Chinese mandarin is represented as
Offering incense to Joss, the foreground
being filled with fiower-pots, while stand
ing shrinkingly in the background is
seen Chinese woman, placed there prob
ably to make contrast in the picture
fk,,1 fl,pvN Il
being notorious that men only are
counted in China, except for purposes of
vice. In the other picture several Chinese
OF the upper religious classes are sitting
around in various attitudes, more or less
picturesque, playing stringed musical
instruments, while one is beating a gong
which hangs on the wall
The scenes are fairly well painted and
can be studied with much profit 1t NAV
be stated that within a few doors of this |
"JoSs-house" is restaurant, in which the |
writer once saw a picture which awak- |
ened in his mind query which possibly |
the reader will be interested in assisting |
him to solve mentally. 1t is Chinese
picture, and represents a fox sitting in an |
arbor and looking up at particularly
misunderstanding bunch OF grapes several
feet above his reach. The inscription IN
Chinese characters underneath the pic
ture probably could be translated into
soLdStuiIB Ihe sour grapes. Dld the
Chinese get this story from US or did we
get 1t from them? That is an interesting
question for consideration.
JULES TAvERNIER
A fierv-looking picture hanging over
the door near Mr.. Bush's seat in the cor
ner Of the art gallery of the California
building, being view of the crater of the
volcano of kilauea. painted by Jules
Iayernier, may not be OF much art worth
beyond satisfying a craving for the NOR
bid, but view of it recalls the eccentric
character who was such a picturesque
figure in San Francisco for so many
years He loved the. flowing bowl, not
wisely, but too well. Even the "high
jinks" of the Bohemian Club of San
Francisco were not strong enough for
him, and he hled him over the sea to the
Sandwich Islands, where he cultivated
three thIngs-Volcanoes, whisky and the
King. He painted many a canvas in
fiery colors while the red lava was boiling
below him, painted his features also an
exquisite color, and lived life of perpet-
ual jollitication. Tavernier and Kala-
kaua made Honolulu howl many a night
while the artist kept the King company
in his royal toots. 1t is hard 10 believe
this story while gazing at the picture of
kilauea's mouth just mentioned.
Possibly in emulation OF the Stuart
King who knighted a loin of beef of a
choice cut because it pleased his craving
appetite at the moment, the aforesaid cut
being known as sirloin TO this day, old
King kalakaua, on one of the occasions
when he was out with Tavernier, was SO
well pleased with some particularly fine
whisky which the artist produced Wnen
the pangs OF thirst were upon him that
he knighted him on the spot. So, as a
bystander who was in hearing distance
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