The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26
The Art
RonaiSS SSanCo at
Monterey
Picture Makers Are
Going Back to
Jheir First
Love

For artists Win the prusn ana palette
the old town of Monterey ana its environ
ments have long possessed a fascination.
Men and women who have won distinc-
ton in the art centers of Europe turn a
longing gaze to the bay of Monterey.
Memory holds images of land and sea and
sky of surprising beauty. The seasons of
California have been divided by the poet
into "half year of clouds and flowers,
half year of dust and sky," but the di-
vision cannot be applied to Monterey in
the sense that is applicable to the foothill
regions. ALI the year round Monterey is
a delightful place. The flowers bloom al
ways.
At one time the artist colony at
Monterey represented many of the best
known painters Of California. They lead
life free from care and convention
ality, finding the conditions of tranquility
and repose which frequently produce the
greatest pictures.
That Monterey is to have a renaissance
new birth in artistic recognition
is highly probable. Charles RolIo Peters.
who returned from Europe several months
ago and established studio at Monterey,
speaks of the many artists abroad who are
talking of coming back to America for a
season of work, recreation and reflection
at the old capital of California.
Harrison, who has gained fame and sue
cess as an artist, recalls with delight his
outings in California nearly twenty years
ago, when Jules Tavernier, Denny, Ham
ilton, Paul Franzeny, Lizzie Strong, Virgil
Williams, Julian Rix, J. d. Strong, Yel-
land, Holdridge and Nellie Hops were
representatives. of the art colony at Monte
rey. He told Peters that he would never
be entirely happy again until he was set
tied in studio on the shores of the bay
of Monterey.
Lizzie Strong. whose talent has been
recognized In London and Paris, and
whose pictures are admitted to the salon,
never ceased to dream of the halcyon days
at Monterey, during her long sojourn
abroad. Her dearly cherished desire to
return and renew acquaintance with the
scenes so vividly impressed in her mind
has been gratiied.
To her studio in the old town she will
bring her pictures. 1t is her purpose 20
make another step and exhibit her entire
collection of paintings in the town. Word
comes that other artists will follow the ex.
o-A RAS "a @AA- CNO4o anu U4tSS OlIOuR, dHQ
settle down for a season of work and solace
In the old, familiar place.
1t would not be strange if Thomas Hill.
the most successful of old California paint
ers, should not leave his summer abiding
place at Wawona to loiter in the winter on
the beach at Monterey. Fred M. Yates.
now one of the celebrated portrait painters
of England, Will be in California in few
days. He is sure to bring news of other
artists coming home to the scene of their
early struggles and first triumph Should
1t strike their fancy to hold a reunion at
Monterey, the convention of artists would
present some striking figures.
Jules Tavernier, Virgil Williams, Denny.
Julian Rix, Joseph Strong and Others.
constituting what may be classed as the
early group of artists, painted old mis-
slons, the colonies of fishermen, whales
ana whalers, with an occasional study OF
senorita or a tempest bruised cypress
standing on the outpost of the forest as a
sentinel to challenge the sea- 1t is DOS
slble and much to be desired that the
painters of the renaissance should study
the historical phases of Monterey, and,
taking suggestions from the Historical
Society, tell US something on canvas oil
the men who framed the constitution at
Cotton Hall in 1S49, how they passed their
time when the convention was not in ses.
sion, and of the senoritas to whom they
paid their compliments
With whom did these charter-framers
mingle2 Where did they Iolter in their
hours of leisure? The historical societies oi
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
and Virginia have preserved in literature
and paintings the striking personalities
and scenes In the founding Of their re.
spective commonwealths, but the failure
OF California in this respect is Iamentable.
We know that the delegates Assem- bled
Saturday, September l, 1s49, and ad-