Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-12-04
WOreS' Art Receives
Favorable Attention

San Francisco. Nov. 16.-Theodore
Wores' exhibition Of pictures in the
jinks room OF the Bohemian Club d.
week with the fall water-color show
at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art.
II is year and half since Mr.. Wores
left California for the islands of the
Pacific, and the fifty!nine pictures
which he now exhibits attest that he
has had busy as well as a delightful
trip. The club arranged 1t so that
last Tuesday and Friday should be
"ladies' days" which gave some fifteen
hundred people the pleasure Of seeing
the picturesque life of the islands as
interpreted by keen observer and a
sincere artist. For week more the
paintings will hang In the Bohemian
Club to be seen by the members and
their men friends. After that Mr..
Wores will pack his canvases and go
for an exhibition. Later he may show
his work in London. At any rate, he
will go eventually to Europe. and 1t
will be regrettably long before he re.
turns to his home in California.
The Wores collection is literally ed
ucative as to the native life of the isl
ands. Word pictures OF these inter-
esting places Of the tropics are always
available. but comparatively few pain.
tiers have remained among the people
long enough to get anything OF per-
manent value for the world of art.
This Mr.. Wores did. His Samoan pic
lures are particularly attractive. Some
of them take us to the haunts of Rob.
ert Louis Stevenson at Vailima, in
Apia. One portrays native girl
picking cacao at Vailima In the grove
planted by the hand of the great wri-
ter and another pictures the waterfall
and the pool which was his bathing
place.
The picture which Wores has chris
tened In Banana Groves" is one of
the most striking of the Samoan can.
vases. II portrays a comedy native
girl enjoying the cool shade of the
spreading banana leaves. The figite,
graceful and happy in outline. is well
modelled, and the color treatment is
particularly good. The atmosphere is
full of tropic shine and peacefulness.
The home life, the occupations and
the pleasures of the Samoans, who are
still measurably free from the conven-
tons of higher civilization, make pic
lures one may be forgiven for covet-
ng.
Hawaii has yielded to Mr.. Wores'
for the larger part OF this al
ogether interesting and unique collec-
ions OF paintings, and naturally so,
because of its greater variety Of land
icape and fora and It's native Me
here. In the glorious red bloAn of
he ponciana regia Mr.. Wores found
he masses OF color In which he de-
lights, and these trees and their sur
were the inspiration Of sew
sral OF the most cheerful pictures In
he collection.
Water Lilies and Cocoa, Palms at
Waikiki" is the title of an exceedingly
sOOu plCtuTt. ne iti nuhcib, thc
nat weavers, the fishermen, tho stur-
ly native boys and the big-eyed native
girls, are the subjects OF pictures
which attest the skill and feeling Mr..
Nores puts into d. his work. These
,alntings will certainly attract atten-
Ion at the East. Three portraits of
girls, with just enough ma
i've blood in their veins to give them
'reat soft eyes and creamy skins, have
Ieen much admired.
Unquestionably one Of the best
shown by Mr.. Wores is a
moonlight of the bay of Honolulu,
oolsing toward Diamond Head from
This was given the easel
4 honor.
Mr.. Wores has already made several
ales, and 1t is probable that more of
hese island pictures will hang on the
walls of San Francisco homes.
Fine Job Printing at the eulIetia !