The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-27
Yates RECEPTION
KilOhana Art !LeaguG Crowded
With Art Lovers.
VALUABLE PORTRAITS ON VIEW
Artistic Work by One of
England's Artists.
Honolulu People Who Have Sc
cured Paintings - Exhibition
Continued Today.

| iC LbhibCt VI pCOplt DIGScul III the
rooms of the Kilohana Art League
last night to view the portraits and a
few landscapes done under the brush
of Mr.. Fred Yates was very fattering
to that talented artist From until
| 10 o'clock the rooms were filled. and
when the time came to depart. there
was reluctance to go, for the portraits
were beginning to grow on the peo-
pie, and they wished to remain longer,
to more fully comprehend the feeling
put into the various faces painted On
the canvas. Comments were freely
expressed and congratulations as free
ly given Mr.. Yates ON the success of
his work
Mr.. Yates method of handling is new
to Honolulu and except to those who
have visited the salons during recent
years or who have kept pace with
progress in art, it may not be pleasing.
He is unquestionably the master Of
his profession, a fact evidenced by the
remarkable freedom with which ne
treats subject. He makes no at
tempt at posing those who he is TO
paint; in this he lets nature take
its course" and paints what he knows
to be the most natural position of his
subject. This may not always be sa-
tisfactory to the sitter who has been
accustomed to having a head rest jaD-
bed into his neck by the enterprising
NInf !, hut Ill
in this exhibition that the best results
were obtained by Mr.. Yates where ne
was allowed freedom of action.
In the three canvass on the makai
wall, President Dole, Judge Hartwell
or Rev. G. NJ. Hyde are in positions
quite natural to those who have called
on them at their homes. Of the three, |
the artist will tell you he prefers the |
portrait of Judge Hartwell, because it |
is more artistic; the handling is broad, |
and the tout ensemble is perfect in the |
mind of the true artist The same |
may be said of the portrait of Miss
Hartwell, painted at time when NJ.
Yates was not rushed and was enjoy
ing sweet idleness.
Few artists of Mr.. Yates years be-
come as versatile as he; his lands
capes or marines exhibited last night
show the same broad handling and
pardonable absence of detail which
marks the best of his portraits and yet
the effect is there. Some artist, with
anected nonchelance. would call them
CLEVER bits" but Mr. Yates values
these Hawaiian scenes, for their ar
tistic merit more highly than his por-
traits and the doors of the academies
and salons of Europe will be opened
to him when he offers them for exhi
bition there on his return. Fred
Yates has ability for above the average
artist who visits Honolulu and those
people of means who have neglected
to take the opportunity to secure por-
traits from his brush will regret il
only once. but that once will last a life
time.
Mrs. c. l.. Carter kindly received the
guests of the league.
The main room was prettily decor
ated with sprays of the passion vine
festooned above the portraits. artistic
ally arranged on the walls. The port
RAFT of Mr.. George Alfred Rogers, OK
hibited at the Salon. 1895, and that of
Nine. Du Maurier, exhibited at the So
ciety of Portraits. London. 1895. held
the place of honor TO the back of the
stage
Among those present were Mr.. and
Mrs. S. NJ. Damon. Mr.. and Mrs. James
G.. Spencer. Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Thurs
ton. Mr.. and Mrs. Melanthon NJ. Hurd
Mr.. and Mrs. +. A. Jones. Rev. S. E.
and Mrs. Bishop. Mr.. and Mrs. James
II. Pratt, DR.. and Mrs. ]. S. B. Pratt,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Torbert, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. W. Harris. DR.. and Mrs An
1rews. Mr.. and Mrs. William Graham,
Mrs. Castle. Mrs. A. F. Judd Mrs. p.
Mrs Henry " Castle I
5. c. Allen. Mrs. Pierre Jones. Mrs.
Parmelee. Mrs. c. H. Eldredge. Mrs
n Damon. Mrs. Thomas G.. Thrum.
Mrs. \. L. Smith. Mrs. Peter High.
Misses Kate NcGrew. May Damon, q.
VI. Alexander. K. Pope. F.
B. Snow. y. z. Hammond Carrie Gill
man, NJ. Denzer, z. Danford. Edith