Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-03-04
ART EXHIBITION.
oil Painungs by Messrs. billiard ana
Hitchcock on View.

An exhibition of paintings in
oil by w. III. billiard and ID. II.
Hitchcock was opened at the
rooms of the Kilohana Art
League last night. Only members
were invited to the opening, as
the main room is not large enough
to accommodate many visitors in
addition to the Leagues numer-
Gus membership. Nevertheless,
the general public will have
week to see the exhibition, and it
is exceedingly well worth seeing
by all who take an intelligent in
terest in art.
Mr.. billiard, the visiting Amer
lean artist, has produced a Won
derful number of works in the
few weeks that he has been in the
islands, but he has a reputation
in the whole art world of
being one of the most rapid
painters ever known. Besides his
local works he has several can
vases of American scenes hung on
this occasion-marine views near
Monterey and on the coast of
Maine, together with a beautiful
New England village landscape.
Mr.. billiards work seems
most remarkable for breadth
of treatment and subtle sense in
portraying the colors of nature.
Another feature to be noted, es-
pecially in some of his Hawaiian
scenes, is the large amount of
picture" if it may be so express
ed, he gets within a given area of
canvas. This is seen in a strik-
ing degree in the painting that
seemed to be the most generally
favored last night 1t is a scene
on the Waikiki road containing a
Chinese rice planters cabin,
stacks of rice straw, poud
with water lilies and trees
in the foreground, with
cloud-haunted mountains at the
end of hazy tropical yista in the
background. Its atmosphere is
superb and, although the various
topics stand out clearly, there is
no apparent concern for details SO
minute in nature as only to be
taken in by the eye at pript-read-
ing distance.
Another work that attracts i'm
mediate attention is an original
study of Diamond Head. 1t is
from a point of vision on the
Waikiki road where the present
writer often has wished to have
an artist deal with the subject
The remarks on the work pre-
yiously noticed apply to this one,
as, although Diamond Head is the
main theme, intervening palms
and wooded borders of the road
are conscripted to add richness
to the view. There is
representation of the sublimer
moods of the grand mountain
scenery on either side of the Nuu-
anu Pail road, looking onward to
the great pass at the summit,which
some regard as the leading work
of Mr.. billiards collection. 1t has
to be studied somewhat, however,
and tested at various distances
before giving it the premiership.
People who have never as
cended that valley excepting in
sunshiny weather would probably |
not favor this picture, but any
body who has never been there at |
all would, on viewing the canvas
at the proper distance of |
say four yards, pronounce it a
true representation of mountain,
mist and forest in natures grand |
est habitats. The fact that the
picture has sold on sight to a
connoisseur is significant.
There is not space to mention
all of Mr.. billiards works, nor
even to critically analyse any of |
them. His honest, rugged rocks,
and his fascinating rainbow
effects, where the rainbow is at |
home, are among the Characters
tics that will make his Hawaiian
paintings speak much for the