The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-20
The Spring Exhibition
Of KiIohana League
on May 22nd. :
GREAT PREPARATIONS ARE MADE
Gifted Folk of the Islands viii Send
The Best Efforts of Brain and
Hand to Grace Exhibit.

Plans are well under way for the
spring exhibition of the Kilohana Art
League Work will be received on the
9TH of May, and ten days will be al
lowed for hanging the pictures and
making other arrangements. The 18th
will be vanishing day, the 21st for
members private view, and the exhibit
ton opens to the public on the 22d,
three weeks. The pictures
will be on view daily and on Wednesday
and Saturday evenings.
This year, on account of the plague
and the quarantine, the artists have not
done so much work as usual. Accord
ingly the bylaw of the League which
prohibits the exhibition of work ever
before exhibited in Honolulu has been
for the time suspended. The exhibit
ton will contain the new work of the
local artists. or such of 1t as is far
enough advanced; and also some of the
best of the work of preceding years.
which will be new to many of the spec
tators. 1t will probably be as good an
exhibition artistically as the preceding
ones, If not better, in spite of the fact
that not all OF the pictures will be new.
In former years this rule about old pic
lures has been rigidly adhered to, but
the committee on exhibitions has wise
ly decided to abrogate ii for this ac-
casion. Ii will probably be restored to
force for the autumn exhibition.
A jury consisting of Mr.. ID. Howard
Hitchcock, chairman; Mr.. Harold
Mott-Smith. Miss Anna Parke, Mrs.
Kelley and Mrs. w. VI. Graham has been
chosen to pass upon the pictures offer
ed. The League has large amount OF
wall space in its rooms in Progress
block. and 1t Is hoped and expected that
this will be well covered. Some well
come surprises are in store for the art.
loving public.
p ID. Howard Hitchcock has painted sc
many good pictures of Mauna Loa IL
eruption that he is often spoken of a!
the artist of the volcano. This year HI
has superb picture of the last erup
ton. quite above the other pictures tina
have been seen in character and In fin
ish. 1t is particularly well composed
The crater, from which flame ant
smoke are spouting fiercely and strong
| ly, is a little to the left of the cente
of the picture, and the molten law
| flows down to the right, coming wei
into the foreground, and revealing bit
kof the fiery red mass underneath
through cracks. The mountains ant
the sky in the background are yer.
effectively toned down by the smoke. 81
that the vivid light of the flames come
out the better for the contrast, ant
lights up the whole picture, dominat
ing even the red hot cracks in the Law;
and forming the apex of the picture.
1t is a good example of idealisti
realism successfully applied.
The artist has also another pictur
of Mauna Loa. In this case the vol
cano is smoldering and pouring on
| big masses of white smoke, benin
which the mountains show clearly be
| low the blue sky. The idea here
that of slumbering. quiescent powe
which may break out at any time.
| Much more pleasing than this, and a
least as artistic, though not so strong
is painting of Mauna Kea just afte
sunrise. In the foreground is a littl
piece of water with the tones of earl
morning on it, and just beyond, in tn
middle distance, is a delightful grou
of houses and trees. Beyond rises tn
side expanse of the mountain, wit
faint mists drifting away from its bias
at the sides. The broad side is re-
between pink and scarlet. and repre-
sents an effect which Is seen for only
few minutes on any day.
. What Is really finer piece of wor
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striking, is a piece of rural scenery
which trees and grass and running W;
ter have been we'll composed. tt
merit in it is the good handling of SCI
eral greens. Another fine picture is
sloping pasture at sunset, with beaN
clouds lowering down so as partly {
hide the sun, which faces the observe
Mrs. Kelley will send seven or eigl
water-color pictures, two or three
which have special interest from IL
subject and the treatment. The best
the landscapes is view of the Ri
fields behind the artists house, stretcl
ing away to a row of palms. beyor
which the ocean and the sky are II
troduced to heighten the effect. I'll
rice has just sprouted above the su
face, and the peculiar reflection OF Il
sky on the surface of the water amor
the tender shoots in the little squa
patches is pleasingly executed. Nj
. Kelley has lived so long in view
these rice fields that she has come
love them for their beauty, and her pi
ture shows that she has come TO unde
stand how to reproduce this beaut
Along tie little ridges that cut up the
fields are several Chinese at work, al
these give life and action to what won
otherwise be purely still life.
: A portrait of an old native womi
affords a striking contrast between {
mass of white hair, rolling back fro
the forehead, and the deep brown of {
mrch-lined face. Mrs. Kelley will al
send to the exhibition another pictu
of the rice fields, painted at less !