The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-17
THE woMAN's CLUB.
Mrs. CIawson's Interesting Paper on
Art and Artists.


At the last meeting of the Woman's
club, Mrs. W. Clawson read an inter
esting paper on modern art and ar
lists. Her. paper was illustrated by
collection of unmounted photographs,
which added greatly to the enjoyment.
of the day. After the reading the ar
lists and their works were discussed
by the club members and many remin-
iscenses of the Worlds fair art palace
and of trips abroad were recalled.
Poetic feeling in all age have found
vent in form and color. Painting is
an art that shows no decline. 1t would
be quite as difficult, says Hayden, to
find when or where it first originated,
as to find where it never existed at all.
1t is interesting to trace the influence
of one school upon another, and there
is no more curious example of this de-
velop1nent, and of this change of art
ideas than is found in the influence of
the Dutch painters, through many gen
erations down to and in the works of
modern artists.
Early in 1900, when Napoleon was
taking his meteoric flight, disturbing
continental Europe. England being far
I
was less Influenced, and found oppor-
tunities to profit by the misfortunes of
her neighbors. Many Dutch paintings
found their way into English galleries
and masterpieces were bought for a
song
From these works the British land
scape school, with Constable at its
head, derived great good. The enthu-
siasm for nature and the ideas of We
nice may be traced to this coming in
of the works of Hoffemas, Baysdaels
and others, and 1t is form the British
landscape school that many of the
same ideas developed under different
conditions, and different environments,
may be traced in the famous Barbinzon
school. You find this influence strongly
marked in Rousseau, Daubigny, Corot,
Millet, Tryon and others, not in the
manner of the painting but in the sim
plicity and truth of nature.
In turn the artists of Holland show a
strongly marked trace of the influence
of the Fontainbleau group.
I The landscape of William Maeris,
suggest Corot. They are full of poetry.
+ His Under the Willows" represents a
group of cattle standing in the water,
under the trees. 1t is early spring
time, and the air feels so warm and
fresh, and so full of the sweet fra
GRANGE from the meadows and the will
lows.
Maeris is a man nearly fifty. modest
and, unpretentious, yet a, thorough ar
fist. He has a great fondness for
Daubigny, Corot, Diaz and others of
the Barbizon school. And there are
4 art cOnnoiS5eurs who place his work on
a par with these men he so much adj
mireS.
/ Louis Apol is fond of painting winter
scenes. He went once on a north pole
expedition for the purpose of studying
snow and ice effects
! His Near the MILL an evening
scene in a forest near a water mill, is
probably one of his best known
Bokhuysen paints most often the
brilliant colors seen in the last rays OF
the setting sun. Driving the Cattle
Homeward" is one that fair visitors
will remember, also Sunset in
Dreuthe.'
Poggenbeck, one of the youngest ar
lists, works mostly among the marshy
lowlands, and pasture grounds, he likes
to study the ducks and cattle.
Bosboom is called the modern Rem
brant. He was seventy years of age
when he died, two years ago. In early
life he painted the sea shore, and other
landscapes, but he, after learning tc
love the calm inpressiveness of the
old Dutch cathedrals and church in
teriors, rarely painted anything else.
Paul Delaroche is one of the chic
painters of the present century. Horac,
Vernet, unrivalled in battle pieces il
another. Then there is Delacroix, In
gres and Confuse and Rosa Bonheur
whose horses and cattle are the bes
ever painted, and Nine Henriett;
Il Ronnu, who has achieved fame as
painter of cats
Jules Bretons' pictures of peasant lif
1--WE are all familiar with The las