New-York tribune., 1901-08-11

pupils come from everywhere. The school OF sum
art study is a comparatively recent develop
ment and has grown more the custom within a
few years since the landscapists have realized their
opportunities for teaching and students the priv
ieges of attractive study.
Arthur Dow. who in the winter is actively allied
with Pratt Institute of the earliest to form
summer classes. since it is fully twelve years since
he started the work at Ipswich Mass. 1t is
tanly picturesque point for study, and each
turning season Mr.. Dow is surrounded with greater
numbers of workers. He has a class of eighty this
summer, gathered from New-Oreans TO California
Many of them are teachers. and few weeks later
will carry TO their own classes the inspiration of
their summer study.
It is a dozen years since Mrs Z NJ Scott first
went to Quaker Hill. in Dutchess County, N Y
Her winter studio is, perhaps. Of the best
known in NewYork City, and for many years has
been the meeting place of men and women painters
and friends of art. For her painting of flowers
Mrs Scott has the affectionate title, the rose
woman" Her friends have named her summer
home "Emscot," and its scattered with
remembrances of visitors and associates in art.
over the great fireplace, where the crane has been
hanging, knows how many years is a deli
cately painted marine sunset by Henry B. Smell
Other bits by other artists appear in delightfully."-
unexpected places. Emscot is a lovely home The
house is rambling and old fashioned. dating beyond
trace of the Oldest inhabitant. It stands in the
heart of the apple country, and we'll pruned
orchards stretch either side. The house is on
a gentle slope that smiles toward the south. To
the east lies vegetable garden, where flowers run
riot along the border paths. Behind is the studio
once stable. 1t is framed in great pink peonies
Of which Mrs c. B. Conan made a capital picture
a few years ago The southerly view looking on
the line of hills Is favorite subject of Mrs
Conan and some OF her tenderest work has pict-
ured the upward slope Giant holyhocks grow in
the dooryard and beautiful rose garden is lodged
where it holds the eye 1t is bordered with arching
which heir daV N-eTlO
bloom in profusion
The house contains half dozen rooms for stu
dents. Two days each week are occupied with in
struction and the are filled with rambIes and
excursions. Yet there is never an hour when a
sketch umbrella does not stand in the rose oar
den with a worker in its shade whom the re-
sounding clap, clap of the brass knocker on the
house door fails to disturb in her revery Emscot
Is approached by six mile drive from the station
It is quite ten since Charles H. Davis found
palntaole spot 10 his liking Mystic Conn
ara he chooses 70 make his home there through
nearly the entire year. Pupils who 90 to him i'm
the summer see perennial beauty in the river the
liz MGol91 @ G Pans f ana the village spre which rises
The Chase School at Shinnecock Hills on Long
years ago. is better known than most The stndie len
around Shinnecock which Mr.. Chase exhibits in the
place. 7
Up in the Catskins, amid the strength of the
Much of the hest vrork ~ tb iy tuty e'fRt years
illustrated his attachment for Arkeville. Mrs
Conan has also frequented ArkeviIle and bae
brought away many bits of the hill country on her
0'
Leonard Ochtman finds Greenwich. Conn. a
happy hunting ground in the summer ana has NOT
wearied of ii in eleven years Charles Warren
Eaton also likes Connecticut scenery but goes to
Thompson.
Many delightful memories are associated with
South Farms Inn, LitChfeld, Conn. where Henry
- Smell was the leading spirit a small art COLONY
Inat survived a few years. Mrs. Clara Weaver
Parrish and Mrs. f. NJ. Scott were also connected
win South Farms Inn 1t is practically deserted
this year for Mr. Smell Is visiting new territory
haVln6 gone with class of forty to Grand Manan
y. t., on the borderland of that Acadia which has
In 1een a pToilhc theme for poem and story. Mrs
Parrish Will 20 abroad in the autumn
Perhaps there Is more interesting COLONY,
tnan that at New-Hope. in Bucks County Penn
where w. /. Lathrop finds home and studio His
friends: and early in its history. when they had
hoVered around his CHEEKY fire in winter thew bIt
upon the title Stove Inn The name cinFs ana
they always refer 10 il So Some of Mr. Lathrop's
best exhibition pictures reproduce scenes around
his own doOryard New-Hope where great svca-
more trees cast long shadows the grass
The spirit of colonization is strong within tba
artists. A few months ago George De Forest
Brush purchased three hundred acres at Dublin
N H, where another year a colony of his students
and pottery workers will join him for the summer
months. Abbott Thayer is likewise associated with
Dublin "
home at Lowell Centre, in Oxford County stands
al the foot of that mountain. Sabatos which gave
its name to the hand woven domestic rug that Mrs
Nolk has produced within year Mr.. and Mrs
work the greater part of the next year and a hair
in Maine W
Frank Vincent Dumond Is surrounded by a sum-
mer class at GTeenport. Long Island. and Mrs
Rhoda Holmes Nichols is sketching around quaint
old PFovincetowns on Cape Cod.