Evening star., 1901-03-13
WONDERFUL PICTURES
TRANsPARENCIEs
FOR BUFFALO EXPOSITION.
Artist Killers Preparing the Beautiful
Exhibit for the Interior
Department.

Advancement in art has been notable in
no direction more impressively than In re-
gard to photography and its development.
and while the reproduction on the sensi-
tized plate in the camera Of the actual col
ors of the landscape or other view focused
by the lens is not yet attained, it has be-
come possible for a photograph on glass to
be . deftly treated by an artist in that line
that every hue and tint, each light and
shadow, is given with natural fidelity. At
the head of such artists Mr.. John X. Hill
lers of this city occupies unquestioned
place. and his work has been honored at
all recent expositions. including the worlds
fair at Chicago, with medals and certifi-
Gates Mr.. Killers executed the remark
able colored transparencies sent to 1.-The
Paris exposition by the division of forestry
of the Agricultural Department, and is now
completing series of exquisite views of
the wonders of America for the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition, under the authority of
Prof. Clark, who is in charge of the In
terror Departments exhibit for Buffalo.
Some of these beautiful productions are
unusually large, being 40 py SO inches in
dimensions. They are being made at Mr..
Killers gallery. a three-story building in
the rear of his residence. No 23S 1st street
southeast which is one of the most COM
pletely equipped photograph establishments
for scientific and general purposes in the
United States.
Life-Like Reproductions.
Particularly striking is the picture Of the
Bad Lands of Dakota" enlarged from a
negative taken by Prof. Darton, one of
the biologists of the United States geologi-
cal survey. The marvellous colorings OF
the strange country, the pink clay columns
capped with sandstone, the ochres and
umbers of the cliffs, the blush green OF
the sage brush and the vari-tinted hues of
piEnacles and towers are reproduced Won
derfully and the treatment of lights and
shadows is equally effective.
THE Temples in Zion Valley" Utah,
showing the Rio Verge river flowing
through leaf-covered banks over a rocky
bed with the great golden temples in the
middle ground and the silvery chalk cliffs
beyond is exquisitely treated and there are
two remarkable pictures of the Yosemite
Valley. One looking down shows COM
manding Ell Captain rising it's sheer height
1000 feet to the right with the Merced
river shining like a silver ribbon between
banks lined with quaking asps whose
leaves are touched with autumnal tints
and with every surrounding feature re-
fected in the river.
The other. also an autumn scene. both
being taken by Mr.. Killers late in Novem-
ber, shows the full valley of the Yose-
mite looking up. Here the Merced winds
in and out through vast meadow nestled
among the heights, and the quaking asps
are yellow hue and mingle with the dark
red of the dogwood and the living green
of the pines. Each hue and color, each
light and shadow has been caught and pre-
served as though prisoned by the lens
themselves
Natural Bridge of Virginia.
The east as well as the west is included
in the series, and Pan-American visitors
will be enabled to view the Natural bridge
of Virginia in all it's perfection of color
and surroundings This beautiful work is
enlarged from negative made by Director
Wolcott of the United States geological
survey and is triumph. The blue lime
stone of the bridge and the cliff, the stream
fretting over the rock-mattreSsed bed, the
board walk skirting it, whence visitors
view the mighty marvel; the autumn hues
of the dogwoods and naples, oaks and
larches, and the vivid greens of the spruce
and cedars are given with a detail that is
truthfully effective.
An unusual picture presents the Great
Fails Of the Yellowstone, from view taken
by Mr. Killers eminence above the
falls and about mile from them, which
looks down upon the water and into the
deep gorge where the falling water forms
stream. 1t is q poem of color and light
and shade, and away in the distance, over
leagues and leagues of mountain tops, show
the far-off range, gray in the horizon.
superb Sunset Scene.
One of the most effective works in the
series is picture of the explorers col
umn in Canon de Chelly, Arizona. 1t is a
sunset scene and the red and purple cliffs
are bathed in glorious radiance In the
foreground, scattered over turf of green,
are the white tents of the outfit of Mr.
Killers, and seated upon small cliff under
the column are two men, their puny fig-
ures giving by contrast a striking idea of
the immensely of the surroundings There
are other pictures, including one of the
Canon de Muerto. Arizona, where the In
dians bury their dead. treated with the
same wonderful fidelity, and to one to
whom many of the views given are famil-
lar their reproduction in tone and color is
truly marvellous. An effort will be made to
nave the collection exhibited in this city
before sending 1t to Buffalo.