The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-07
LAST WEEK OF
kILOHANA EXHIBIT

I Lahaina seems to have been the
favorite sketching ground for Art
League exhibitors this season The
largest canvas representing scene
there is one by Mrs. Frances Sroran
Molony, in oils, and lends an air of
importance to the waterfront quite
| fattering TO the present appearance
of our ancient capital. Much careful
! work is here repre- ented, and Mrs.
| Molony has two other large canvases
| which Will bear study, one of them in
! its vague browns being especially
! strong in feeling. The other I.ahaina
! scenes are represented by Mrs. Helen
! Kelley, Miss a. H. Parke. Miss Alex
ander and Mr.. Dodge Some small bits
| of Mrs. Kelley's taken from the part
lily ruined buildings are most suitabl
framed and original in their setting.
They have quite an old-world air
about them, though found quite tucked
away in this corner of the new world.
The field is varied in that picturesque
part of Maui, as the following titles
indicate: As, South Sea Islanders
Home, by p H. Dodge; %, "A
Glimpse of Lanai" by Miss Parke;
%, "Old Brick Oven,'' and 80, cold
Richards House" by Mrs. Kelley; 76,
Morning at Lahaina," by Miss Alex
ander; as we'll as many others depict
ing our island charms.
One feature of the exhibition is the
architectural work of five pieces in
plaster of Mr.. J. Rosenstein, which
shows great technical ability and ar
tistic execution. His STUDY of Man
goes 81 brings US back to Hawaiian ,
modelling, and one is tempted to visit
the studio of Mr.. Rosenstefn in the
Progress block, where he is .imparting
to students the knowledge which may
produce results like those here shown.
The work of Mr.. F. w Schultz is
varied and in large numbers, in oil, |
water color, pencil and inH not only {
upon the walls but in the portfolios. |
Beside the evidences of ability of |
this artist to depict animal figures, |
there are glimpses of scenes abroad |
treated in an attractive manner, and |
there is much to be admired which |
was CLEANED in his recent sojourn in |
the vicinity of the volcano. A bit of |
fern forest shows delightful certainty |
of the handling. In his portfolio are
characteristic book plates and other |
drawings or great interest.
The portfolios, which We're so we'll |
patronized last season, are especially
interesting at this time. Miss Parke
has one we'll filled with island bits and |
there have strayed over here a few
leaves from the work of Mr.. Mist in
Dresden. In the portfolio of Mr..
Dodge is a collection of sea and cloud
scenes, in which, perhaps, his most
successful work is depicted.
Mrs. Pierre Jones is represented in |
6S by one of her most original and at
tractive productions, and Mrs. Focke
contributes in 80 a refreshing sketch in
Italy A name which appears for the
first time is that of w. II. Fenton
Smith; represented by one number
also is Miss Bessie Browne, in a Ca
madam scene. The three young ar--l
lists, Cordelia Gilman, Eileen Nc
Carthy and Alice Spalding, are doing
landscape. and between them have
contributed nine numbers.
The miniature by Miss Nettie King,
81, will draw the especial attention of
those who are wise in that delicate
line of art. The likeness is not to be
and one wonders that
form, flesh tone and grace may be so
delicately rendered.
We speak last of those two glimpses
from California which have come
from the brush of Mr.. H. c. Best,
whose work is we'll known to some of
own townsmen. They are greatly adj
mired, and the larger of the two, the
only ora which was for sale, early
bore a card indicating that it had been
purchased by a Honolulu admirer. 1t
is a pleasure to have a. suggestion of
California sunshine between the
trunks of the giant redwood and these
canvases add quite a dignity to the
present eeXhibition.
The pages of the visitors book are
being slowly filled, and the public may
avail themselves of what the exhibit
ton affords through the remaining
days and evenings of this week.