The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-27
Notes on Pieces in KilOhana
Art League Gallery.
A HIGH CLASS OF WORK
OIL Paintings and Water ColorS-
Hitchcock Tells What He Likes.
Other Contributors.

hibition now open at the rooms of the |
Kilohana Art League the best yet |
produced by local talent, but to the !
most casual observer a marked i'm |
provement over any preceding exhibit |
is felt, and, to one who has followed |
the growth of the league from its be-
ginning, the appreciate advance is |
most gratifying and not little sur
prising.
The present rooms of the league are
larger and much better adapted to the
needs of the society. The tinting and
of the walls are we'll adapted
to the purpose and prove an excellent
ly lit background for the pictures, off
setting, but not interfering with them.
The catalogue of the spring exhibit
ton shows 104 numbers, of which "a
are oil paintings, 40 water colors, 16
black and whites and several exam
piles of typography and wood carving,
in all very satisfactory and credita-
bic showing, although the line of china
paintings, usually SO prominent fea-
tUre, is missing.
| The largest single exhibitor is ID.
Howard Hitchcock, who also shows the
largest canvas. His exhibit embraces
a\wide range of subjects and shows a
marked versatility of treatment. His
largest canvas (Konahuanui, No. 49,,
perhaps attracts most attention, and
has already found purchaser
In talk with the artist one is rath
er surprised at his expressing a pref
erence for some of his smaller can
vases Said he: THAT soft, wet even
ing effect (No 20, Waiakea) embodies
much of my inner delight in dealing
with soft greys and quiet, subdued col
or as does the canves next it (NO. %
When All Is Sweet and StilD, only, as
you see, in a differing color note; the
one cool and gray, the other soft and
warmer in the subdued, mellow light
of twilight, and it is these soft, quiet
effects, rather than the stronger, that
appeal most deeply to my inlers con-
sciousness."
The artist also mentioned Nos. II
and 81 as canvases he enjoyed paint
| ing.
Turning from his own work to that
of Mott-Smith, he spoke in the pleas
ATTEST manner of the rich, glowing
color Of that artists work. "Alive,
he called it, and of his ability as a
portrait painter, of which the two
studies, Nos. Is and "a, are but indi-
cations of wider abilities, and which
1 he hoped the patrons of the exhibit
| lions will have fuller taste soon.
| Mrs. Helen Kelley shows number
of her daintily colored. pretty flower
pieces, and also a number Of land
scapes in water color. The latter,
however, do not equal her still-life
and flower studies, which are always
sweet and fresh in color.
Nos. 81 and As are particularly
pleasing to the casual visitor. 1t is
| in Nos. 53 and 60, however, that one
feels the artist has caught some of the
spirit of art in higher lines, and al
| will look for further advance along
these same lines.
1t is a pleasure to have Miss Parke
clear, crisp water colors among those
on the wall. Nos As, so and 60 are
particularly pleasing in their clear at
mospheric qualities and strong, sure
| handling, points that carry them
| much higher than many of the neigh
| boring pictures.
Among the other contributors in wa
ter colors one notices the advance into
more free and broader style in the
work of Mrs A Willis, who exhibit:
quite number of studies ant
sketches.
| A new name among the exhibitors Il
that of Mrs. c. F. Pond, and a premis
ing addition to the ranks Of local tai
ent, Judging from her water colors
which express strength and feelln;
for color that many of our local paint
ers may we'll emulate.
4 Other contributors to this truly IN
fteresting exhibition are Mrs. H NJ
Won Holt, Mr. Philip H. Dodge, Mrs.
A. Campbell, Miss Irmgard Macfarlane
Miss Helen Jordan, Mr.. H. Mist, Mrs
e. a. Jones, Miss Hoffman, Mrs. W. y
Graham. Mr.. Walter Pinkham an
Mr. Yeong Chong.