The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-04-10
SOUTH SEA CANVASES |
SOME NOTABLE PICTURES IN
WOREs' EXHIBITION.
Private View Of Theodore Wores' Paint
ings Attract Many Picture Lovers.
Hawaiian and Samoan Canvases.

The long promised and looked forward
to exhibition of Hawaiian ad Samoan
canvases by Theodore Wores was open
ed this morning i'm the art rooms of the
Pacific Hardware Company by pri-
waite view. The exhibition win De gem
orally open tomorrow and for a limited
period
Under the personal supervision Of the
artist the art rooms of the Pacific
Hardware have been turned into a re-
gulatiOn exhibition gallery with an eN-
CeptiOnally good light for viewing and
wall room for the Canvases. The win
dows of the south wall have been dark
ended and the whole length utilized as
picture space, the only light coming
from the King street end through half
shaded lights.
At first glance, taking in the Hawai-
ian and Samoan canvases which con-
stitute the essence of the exhibition, the
visitor is struck with the amount Of
work accomplished by the artist Some
few of the canvases are not completed,
one or two showing the scanty chalk
strokes where a figure is to be interpo-
lated later on and all of them will serve
as a nucleus from which many other
pictures will be painted here or In the
artists New York studio.
There are many completed and inn
pOrtant canvases however that will
form the topic of conversation for the
next few days and kept little groups
constantly around them this morning.
The present exhibition is a display of
the work OF the first really prominent
visiting artist who has made careful
and continued study of Hawaiian and
Samoan life and character with perhaps
the exception of Tavernier, who how
ever, kept within narrower limots.
The most striking canvas in the gal
lery, a characteristically exhibition pic
ture, is the Lei Girl" painted some
months since Daring in color, the re-
suit Is most successful, while the type
chosen in the model, preeminently Ha-
waiian is also extremely pleasing, the
expression, dangerous, tropical, but
happily free from suggestion of gross
ness or sensuality the Hawaiian face
at its happiest and best.
Moonlight at Waikiki" is one of the
larger Canvases. careful study of the
subtleties of Hawaiian moonlight car
rying far more color than the blacks
and whites of the NoTtern planet. Dia-
mond Head looms up in purple brown
bulk with fringe of dark foliage at it's
base. Along the beach lights flash out
from villas and track their reflections
across a sleeping sea, gently tapping
| the wet beach, where the reflections
from the brilliantly lighted windows
also gleam. The planet is not visible it
| is overhead, out of the canvas, but the
whole scene is bathed i'm moonlight and
in the foreground one lazy. lifting wave
breaks like a diamond flash as the foam
entangles the moonrays. poi is a
wonderfully natural study of a native
| child preparing to enjoy Il luncheon of
dried fish and the national dish. Mount
Kaala in two smaller CanVases is aglOw
with the color of Hawaiian landscape.
The Lilly Pond" and a Typical Car
den" both painted at Ainahau, are effec-
tive, brilliant canvases replete with To-
| cal color.
The "Fisherboy" and the Mat
! Maker" as life studies will attract at
| tention, as much by the originality of
| their pose as the vivid truthfulness of
| their surroundings, Two or three poin-
| cianas and a particularly happy "Gold-
| en- Shower" show that the flora have not
| been NEGLECTED.
| on the opposite wall, some dozen
| frames surrounding a central figure of a
! girl gathering cacaO show the wealth
| of coloring that awaits both artist and
| traveller in Samoa The difference, sub
| tie, yet distinct in the coloring of Ha-
waiian and Samoan landscapes also re-
veals the ability of Mr.. Wores to catch
! local color promptly and infallibly. The
! foliage in Samoa is more brilliant than
| ours, there are few withered leaves or
the palms and more tropical luXuriance
much apparently as Hawaii might have
| been when the forests oVerfiOwed the
| canyons. The Waterfall at Vailima'
will be to many the favOrite, it is paint.
ed forcibly and boldly and is rife witt
suggestions of tropical heat without ant
GOODNESS within this bath of the
! Naiads," where cascades splash and Sa-
moan nymphs battle all day.
The grayer tones of some of the wei
known Wores Japanese studies serve tC
| show off their own quieteT, softer de.
| lights and the more forceful canvases
of tropical subjects. Several cleve
portraits are on exhibition, two of then
! from Honolulu, besides a vigorous like.
! ness of Prof W. d. Alexander placed OF
| exhibition by the owners permission.
The exhibition is more than wei
worth a visit and will be paid a SECOND
and third one by many picture lovers
Several quiet notes made this mOrninl
will probably result i'm the securing o
| several of the canvases for local walli
before the artist leaves for New York
The light, it might be noted, is bette
for view purposes i'm the morning thar
in the afternoon, though good at any
hour between nine and five
1VTTEVGTn EVENING