The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-07
VII | STAY
IN HAWAII
Mrs. Grace Hudson
Will Paint at
HiIo.

artist, who has been sojourning for the
past three months in Honolulu. declares
herself a victim to the charms of Ha-
wall, and has determined to remain in
the Islands indefinitely
| She has taken up her painting and
! finds the Hawaiian, Japanese and Chi
nese children of Honolulu's cosmopolitan
| population so attractive from stand
point of art work that she, intends open
| ing a studio and deyoting her attention
| to Island types. From the splendid
sketches that have already come from
here, it is safe to predict that the famous
little artist whose reproductions of the
Indian juveniles of Mendocino county
have occasioned comment and praise
from art critics in France and England
as well as all over the United States.
will make an equal success of her paint
ings of the small specimens of Hawaiian
humanity.
Mrs. Hudson will not however, remain
in Honolulu, much to the regret of the
many friends she has made in this city
through her charming personality, aside
from the interest which attaches to her
by reason of her merited fame as an ar
fist. She leaves for Hilo on June 18th,
there to open her stueio and resume her
work in earnest.
II have been idling long enough" said
the ambitious little woman last night in
an interview. land / feel that I must
| I'll
to Hilo instead of remaining here be-
cause they tell me it is so much easier
to get models over there Do you know,
have had the hardest work getting
models? They run away from me.
used to kidnap my little papooses when
L painted the Ukiah Indians, but I find
that difficult here. They will come once,
and promise to sit for me again, but they
don't return, and how can 1 find them?
When | ask them where they live, they
make wide sweep of the arm that may
mean anywhere from Diamond Head to
Punchbowl, and SO I can't go after them
and bring them here to my rooms in
the hotel. When / get settled in Hilo
will live right next door to them, as
it Were and L will just reach out and
get them, paint them in their homes.
have no scruples about stealing in
fants, and have done it many times. Once
| get hold of them / can manage them
pretty well, by means of gumdrops, and
that kind of thing. / think there is a
great opportunity for an artist here in
the Islands; there is no place like 1t for
coloring. | do not, as a rule, however.
landscape. l have found great oppor-
tunity in the Hawaiian children"
Mrs. Hudson is great curio gatherer
also, ana has just shipped off to the
Mainland the enviable collection of ISL
and curios she has gathered up while
here, together with the paintings she
has completed, except those that have
been sold. OF these there were two. Mrs
Hudson did not seek to market them,
protest. Mr.. H. 2. Baldwin. seeing a
study head of little Hawaiian girl,
wearing a ragged waist fastened with
one button and gay lima lei, insisted
upon securing it, and another sketch of
a small Celestial sitting in the doorway
of a "Pake shop was purchased by Mrs.
A. J. Campbell, who desired it too much
to allow it to be sent out of the Islands.
The half dozen other studies painted
by the artist have been sent to her San
Francisco dea4er, with the exception of
nal finished painting of a lei girl. in
exquisite color.
WI NILS. I1uNSou oSIIlNSu LII
III last January she intended remaining
only for few weeks, and she came only
in search of health, but Hawaii, she
says, has got her under its spell of
dolce far niente,' and she has fingered,
deferring her departure. She has now
altogether abandoned her proposed trip
to Samoa and Tahiti, and will remain in
Hawaii indefinitely.
In an interesting scrap album the lit
tie artist has hundreds of clippings from
metropolitan newspapers and magazines,
press notices in recognition of her talent
and fame She has many medals won
in various art exhibitions, and one of her
paintings hangs in the Minneapolis Art
Collection, which is the finest collection
of paintings in America, and has been
given special place in the exhibit
Personally Mrs. Hudson is a very in
teresting woman aside from the gift that
has combined with her perseverance to
make her one of Americas most famous
artists. She was born and grew to wom-
anhood in the mountains of Mendocino
county, California, and her girlhood was
spent in the wholesome outdoor life that
strengthens and beauties womanhood,
both mentally and physically and lends
buoyancy of spirit and lightness of
heart. She was fond of hunting and be-
SeihS d NSIildplc DiIDFOQ with ner gun IN
the Mendocino woods. 1t Is said of her
that she shoots as well as she paints,
which is a splendid compliment to her
craftsmanship. From babyhood she had
fondness for the brush and palette
and without instruction worked her way
through the rudiments of art When
grown to womanhood she spent one year
in San Francisco art school, and this
is all the direction she ever received,
her success and fame being the result of
her own observation and study She
stands without rival in the painting of
California Indians, and her work will in
crease in rarity and value with the years.
and the type of red men she paints is
rapidly tending towards extinction.
The first honor won by Mrs Hudson
was the Alvord gold medal, which was
presented to her by the president of the
San Francisco Art Association, for the
best full-length study in crayon from a
cast. A San Francisco paper of the day
says: The young lady had returned
from the school week before without
any idea of the honor that awaited her.
That she has succeeded Is sufficient proof
or the ability and industry she possesses,
for she is young, both In years and ex-
raor Ct1 I,.-