The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-02-17

in our midst and rejpire to claim Mrs.
Samuel Colyer as our own.
Miss Curtiss has classes in drawing
from still-ife and water color.
Mrs Savage and Miss Lancaster do
most beautiful china painting.
In Olympia there has always been
more or less interest taken and Mrs.
Aver has proved leading spirit.
In our own little town we could hardly
expect much, but still We have at least
contributed a small part to help swell the
whole.
In Mrs. II. r. Owens nee Alice Clark
there has always been marked talent
shown. and she is recognized a. n factor
in the art circle in which she lives.
Balfour ker, a youth who has almost
grown up among us and who is now
studying in Washington, ID. c., We all
hope to hear from as among our future
great ones. Ho is working hard, report
says, and rs he has undoub,ed talent it
only requires the right direction to bring
| forth fruit.
Miss Gertrude Morrison is Yakima
girl who has taken up art as her life work
and the reports of her successful work at
the Cnwles Art School, Boston, is most
encouraging. Among the ladies' there is
more or less artistic interest and in an
amateurish wav quite little art work
: "a i'll don bt loss suppyisn "a ,nol many
that in Klcki,at county, across from
Arlington, Oregon. there Is quiet
modest man working who has achieved
the goal for which all artists strive-that
man who will not talk OF himself has ex-
hibted for nine years, and this year as
usual hassent his picture to the Paris
Salon
At the time of the Indian Jubilee he
was with Us busily making his studies OF
the Indians for future work. having
taken them up as a special study.
Mr.. +. |. Couse was born in Michigan
and went to Paris, France, expecting to
remain but one year, as that was all his
funds would allow.
His first entry to the Salon was at
cep'ed and sold for one thousand dollars,
and since then he has exhibited for the
past ten years with the exception OF one
year when he did not send a picture. In.
stead OF remaining one year in Paris he
was there nine years. While there he
WAS a favored pupil of BongnereaL and Of
Dagnan- Bouverct. He married Young
lady, Virginia Walker, also studying art
in PARIS, who was brought mp in Kiicki-
tat county, state of Washington.
Five years ago they visited this coun-
try, and while here visited Slmcoe Reser-
walton, where he painted a picture en-
titled "Mourning the Chief" 1t is a
powerful work and excited both for it's
execution and novelty considerable atten-
tion at the Salon of 'o3
The picture is of a dead chief in all his
war-paint lying upon couch of skins
At his side the crouching figure of an
Indian woman, giving vent to her savage
grief,
'Unloading the Boats" in the Salon of
'96, and Peasants Praying for the Souls
of the Dead" both painted at Elaples Pas
de Calais, France, are strong and well
painted pictures, and especially so the
sorrowfu figures at the graves of their
dead, but they do not appeal to me, I'M
familiar scenes as they are, as does the last
picture sent to the Salon this January.
In the distance are our own barren hills,
with the moon just coming up behind
them. In the nearer background is
group of tepees and horses surrounded by
sage brush-our own sage brush-and in
the foreground is a real indian pony,
white-haired and with pink-lidded eyes,
held by scantily clothed Indian brave.
1t is a scene We have all seen and it
appeals to one very forcibIy.
have also photograph of a picture
being finished, to send to the National
Academy of Design, of New York, to be
exhibited.
1t is winter, and standing upon side
hill, with its bleak bluffs, is an Indian
warrior, watching with absorbed atten-
ton some distant object; bis arrow rest
ing ready in his bow to rise and shoot.
At his feet is hare, yet quivering with
life, an arrow sticking from his side. Mr..
Couse is industriously working and ex-
poets to hold an exhibition in Portland
this fall From there he will 90 to take
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