The times., 1901-03-10

Ionged for a botanist at my elbow TO tell
me something more of them.
The technical skill shown here in the
handling of waterCOlor is simply consum-
mate. 1 never even believed il possible TO
arrive at such exquisite fidelity in so
many ingenious ways as these drawings
demonstrated is possible to the method.
Here are flowers wherein a maze of
stamens are woven together into forms
that suggest the wonderful and mystCri-
Gus lines made by a geometrical lathe
with barely a thought of that freedom
from mechanical accuracy which pre-
vents lathe work ever possessing the
beauty which belongs to natural forms
Among our own home flowers are many
familiar ones wherein the close observer
familiar with them may trace beyond
the close observance of natural form an
color an artistic temperament, delicate
and sensitive to the painter quality,
which nature never more than hints at,
a quality without which pa antings o
natural objects. however true, possess lit
tie more than scientific interest
Some pale Indian pipes those delicate
fungi, which, more than any natural OBJ
ject, seem the image of departed souls,
she has painted with marvellous truth to
that translucent quality-a sort OF ala
baster look, or like that look, pure white
blotting paper takes on when soaked
with water-au indeScrIbable som thlnS
which must have eluGed a less skillful
brush. 1t was a pleasure ani a priv ege
to have seen these paintings of Mrs.
Rowan. one may safely count on see
ing a collection of flower paintings 50
comprehensive and individual but once IN
a lifetime, and while there is another way
of painting roses and some few flowers
and that is, too, a beautiful way but way
in which it matters little whether you
are painting roses, fruit, or sea shells,
it is art, but il is not the way to paint
flowers. Mrs. Rowan has shown US how
to paint flowers. Personally, / feel CRATE
full to the Cosmos Club. and congratu-
late Mrs. Rowan upon worldwide recog-
milton and her many medals which one
has only to see these pictures to see how
clearly deserved is the fame she seems
so unconscious of.
In the Hemicycle Gallery. March to Il.
will be a free exhibition of watercolor
paintings by six young japanese students
now III the city. on the back OF the cat
aIOgue, conveying besides the titles Of the
266 watercolors exhibited is the following
i've statement signed by the artists
themselves. Who could read it without
having his curiosity and interest awak-
ened, and. truly. the pictures will not dis
appoint the busiest visitor who will take
the time to go and see them:
Our paintings on exhibition which follow after
the Western style, are very new features to IN
detake in country. We have had no time to
show any result.
We hope that the public will look at our work
as a plant just started, but which has not yet
grown enough to make the form. We only desire
that some time in the future 1t VIII be able 10
have the blossoms.
Hiroshi Yoshida. Hachiro Nakaeawa, Kunishiro
Mitsutani, Banka Maruyama, Shinzo hawai-,
Takeshro Kanokogi
These watercoIors are not conventional
japanese art, but done from the Euro
pean point of view and possess artistic
qualities Of a very high order.
The collection is unique and Will prove
one of the most interesting art shows ever
given here.
The artists are young men who contem-
plate further study in Paris, London, Mu-
Mich. and Rome on the termination of
their present American tour.
JAMES HENRY MOSER.