The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-29
SOME BAR HARB0R STUDIOS.
SOCIETY WOMEN wHo COM
TINUE SERIOUS WORK.
The Studios of Mrs. Montgomery
Sears, Mrs. j. Madison Taylor,
Miss Maria A. Beckett and MRS.
A. G. Barney.
j. c. IRWIN-MARTIN.

Amid all the beautiful and natural
attractions Of Bar Harbor, combined
with the social life of prominent lead
ers from New York, Boston, Philadel-
phia and Washington, cottage life is
This with the semi-weekly balls at
the Kebo Valley club makes this
charming summer resort a place of
lively entertainment. But there are
some few women in the fashionable
circle who have keen interest in
their art. and continue to work stead
lily during the summer months in their
studios
10 the many visitors who go to this
beautiful island in Frenchman's bay,
visit to the Bungalow is one of the
points of interest
Adjacent to one of the best known
and finest hotels, on a side street,
quite surrounded by Gotta geS, stands
this low. odd building, with it's fiat,
sloping roof. SO picturesque on the
exterior, one finds it more so in the
arrangement of rooms, panelling and
other decorations within. The "Bunga-
low" so named for it's similarity to the
dwellings OF the far east. is the sum-
mer home and studio OF Miss Maria A
Beckett. The way into the studio is
up a winding stairway, then through
a narrow hall. where firewood, pictur-
esquely covered with gay colored cot
tons, is piled until the door is reached
and Miss A. Beckett, Palette in hand
extends to all, strangers as well as
friends, hearty welcome.
India cottons and richly embroidered
silken hangings cover the plastered
walls, and serve as a back ground for
the numerous unframed canyases.
To the interested the artist tells how
color appeals to her buoyant spirit. st
is not enough to paint the sunshine
golden and the fields green. They are
so, of course. But how does the lover
see them? They are illumined for him.
For him there is splendor in the grass
and glory in the flower. Thus one finds
it merely peaceful with aDbenediction
resting upon it, Another finds it mock
harsh. cruel To paint the mood of the
man, and at the same time to repdo-
duce the place-that is the artists
province.
mo, l paint almost none of my pic
lures on the spot" said this individual
artist. as she placed on the easel a
moonlight scene at ''Biltmore,' the ia
nous North Carolina estate of Mr.
George Vanderbilt The intensity of
color of the floral and rhododendrons,
the atmosphere and unknown depths OF
the forest on MT. Craigie in this paint
ing makes it one of the most interest
ing in the collection.
a large part of these paintings are
not for sale, but retained by Miss
A. Beckett for her dearest object, to
endow a fund to assist struggling ar
fists, and will be sold after her death
for that purpose. Born in Portland,
Me-, Miss A. Becket's life has been a
varied one. Her early childhood was
spent in the far wild west, and her
courageous spirit was shown at an
early age in driving and riding her
fathers unframed horses.
Her love of the beautiful in nature
impressing naturally an artistic tenn
permanent. and her courageous spirit
| urged her to visit Paris and to seek
the great artist and teacher Daubigny.
Some previous study iunde William II.
Hunt in New York had given her some
hope that Daubigny would receive her
as a pupil.
Again and again she applied to his
| already crowded atelier to receive the
! same discoura cement.
A spirit like hers knew no refusal