The morning call., 1894-01-28
boats and small craft afford positive
wealth NJ apoaSsOrias

boats and small craft afford positive
wealth OF accessories.
The finishing touches are at this mo-
ment being given to a nobly conceived
subject that tells its tale of the sea with
great power. Very appropriately the ar
list has christened it The Blue Light -
The moon steals out through the rack and
scud OF heavily couded sky which low
ers in gloom to the very horizon, and lights
up weIrdly desoIatiOn of lumpy, weller
ing waters, rolling and Quivering in ma ses
though the wind has gone down. but not
breaking on the creStS, and suggesting
neave and force rather than anger. The
lunar beams flash in the trough and shinl-
mer over the cTeSts, and the fine oppor-
unity for vivid contrast afforded by so
great surface of shade has been admir-
ably utilized. The horizon is suggested
rather than defined. the waves rising above
here and there in natural interference
with definition.
Rising out OF the deep shadow to the
lett of the canvas, the hulk of ship is
laboring the waste of waters, dismantled
of all her upper masts, yards and rigging,
the fore and miZZen masts broken off short,
the 6OwSprit gone, and only the mainmaSt
and mainyard and tops left with a remnant
OF the shrOuds. The vessel has list to star
board and her copper shea thing shows just
little at the bow. Out of the storm she
has come almost derelct, drifting help
ttSSly Uu liO utGps Dut tHeIe dI0 survivors
on her deck, and the bluelight burning
over the rail at the stern is an appeal for
help and an Indication of hope and
courage. Parallel with the cleaning white
Of the moons rays the reflections from the
blue flare are tracked across the hollOwS of
the waves and lend peculiar. uneanny
weirduesS TO the scene, as III sDrites were
conjuring uD some Incarnation of awful
import. The port light still burns and
casts lurid flicker over the waste. Lying
obliQuely on thawaves the vessel is lit up
by the moon, but not too strongly.
The sentiment is beautifully preserved
a sentiment that great peril has been part
ly passed through aud is not yet over, but
that there is hope, though no prospect of
rescue Is In sight. The one elem ent of
cheerfulness amid so much desolate wild
ness in water and cloud is the momentary
CLEAN of moonlight. The difficulties of
color in the sea have been well managed
by subtle gradations which give play of
surface and avoid panty opacity. Perhaps
the sky is too murky and dense in parts.
but at least 1t is vapOTOus. Every one who
knows the sea must feel the spirit of the
picture, and its story mpresses the SYM
pathetic in all ranks of humanity. MIR.
Coulter has not surpassed this flight of
his creative fancy at any time. but the Wis
itor to his studio cannot fail to be struck
with the variety of his work.
OF quite another nge of art are the pic
lures of II. r. Boomer, who shares the
we'll lighted and rOomy studio with Mr.
Coulter. Mr.. Bloomer went to Europe to
study about twenty years ago, when his
friend was an undecided tyrO at the
threshold OF the profession. A picture of
Lake Tahoe by Bloomer, executed in those
early days when he chased dull cara away
in the happy companionship OF Tracy and
Arthur Lemon, still hangs in the Bohe-
milan Club-perhaps as early an acquisition
oogically as the club possesses.
Boomers first steps in art were guided by
Tom Hill, but his manner of tho . DAYS
has quite vanished. Going to Paris in
1874 he had the good fortune to carry on
his studies under the eye of Carolus Duran.
The good friend of swarm of American
artists who have made name, including
John s. Sargent, the newly chosen Asso-
ciats of the Royal Academy OF England.