The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-16

exhibition" he said. "a picture that
| looks half decent in studio should look
well in an exhibition, but in the Hopkins
hall pictures don't look like anything. l
was Mortified at seeing paintings there
after having looked at them in studios. 1t
is a magnificent place for artists to have a
banquet, but not the thing for an exhibit
ton. Ii the Art Association wants to make
it permanent they ought to put up an art
gallery where pictures will look like some
thing. Golden Gate Hall and the Young
Mems Christian Association Hall on SUIT
ter street are far better for exhibition pur-
poses.
II think for the sake of art that artists
were better off at the old place on Pine
street. For my part [ should prefer any
other hall in San Francisco to the Hop
kins mansion.
"But, pshaw! The whole thing is a
mockery of art. Concerts and musicales
Thursday evening, and society there to adj
mire and be admired. Couldn't they get
up a violet art evening at one of these
Thursday musicales? 1t would be just too
lovely, you know. And see the poverty
stricken artists going up there to violet
art evening, for instance! See them lis
tenlng to the amateur musicians; and next
day read in the papers that solos by Pro-
lessor so and so were given, and who were
there, but not word about art or the pic
lures.
An art exhibition is an art exhibition,
and should not be promenade concert for
ladies to show off their dresses. Not to
speak of wretched light, this thing is with
out the dignity due to art and makes the
pictures a secondary consideration.
at is very little consequence to the Art
Association whether Pissis or I would ex-
hibit or not, but if they deem pictures
good enough to be exhibited they should
treat those paintings with respect and hang
them where they could be seen. [ won't
exhibit in the spring exhibition this year"
John Stanton is an officer of the School
OF Design, but he is not backward in ex-
pressing his opinions on the picture gal
lery.
'iThat wellr' he exclaimed. "Why,
that's a well with the sun pirouetting
round it, but never shining in, and every
frame casting a shadow upon every paint
ing.
II exhibit? Oh, I'll hang picture
there, but nothing like what I would do if
there was a proper light, instead of that
gloomy well.
''The Art Association has $4,000 in its
treasury. That is enough to build gal
lery large enough and with good light in
the daytime. If they don't want to build
a suitable gallery let them darken the roof
of the hall and light up the pictures at day
as well as at night with electricity, the
same as in Eastern exhibitions. But, as
it is, the place is rank injustice to
artists
"The Art. Association does nothing for
the artists" interrupted Raschen, who en-
tered Stanton's studio at this moment.
cts simply "a school-that's all"
That's all, " Stanton reiterated, "only
school,"
Arthur F. Mathews, another officer of the
school, said he will exhibit something. 'Of
course 1 will exhibit, though it does no
good. 1t is pretty hard on US to hang pic
lures in that hall, where the best work is
killed by bad lights and dark shadows. L
would like to see gallery built, and be
ter than provide good gallery"
G. D. Robinson is in doubts whether he
will contribute to the spring exhibition.
He says he may send up a studio picture,
but thinks it risky to trust it in the bad
light of the gorgeous salon.