The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-10

into it. is full of beauty spots. MI
Scott soiourned there in the Forestry
cottage for eleven weeks and explored
every ward of it and painted many
such spots with redoubled ardour on
being Informed that the entire BASIN
which contains this hidden beauty Will
be cut out TO form a reservoir. 1t was
therefore with the most lavish PAINS
that he strove to depict 1t as II Is
The very place 1 bathed in When d
boy" one was heard TO remark. ms
picture is sombre in tone. Scudd4llS
clouds and mists drive across the lace
of the Pail ridge and threaten rain.
The dark pool deep under the banks OIL
rich brown soil heavily decked with
bind weed and wild plants and laced
and festooned most gracefully Win
branches of hau trees dipping TO the
pellucid water is quite charming. Inc
color though rich, is sombre and the
stvle and technique bold and hanuleu
with mastery skill. Underneath TINS
exhibit No. 80, "A Stream at sunset
Nuuanu Valley was another dark
pool but treated in quite another
fashion-late twilight with gold ana
rose and purple in the background.
tender in its harmonieS and fuH Oh
repose.
No. go Morning near Luakaha, Is
a. large picture and by far the finest
painting of Hawaiian scenery we nave
ever seen. Early morning again,
grey sky of pale clouds dissolving ana
melting. and the hills magnlhcentIy
and faithfully painted, the plush-lihe
look of this verdant covering express
ed with wonderful delicacy. Nearer
ridge after ridge of broken banks
trending to the river. clad with a car
pet of thickest Hilo-grass simmer
ing in the breeze and sunlight AGAIN
a pool and a we'll known one, in TINS
case view any one may ind. IL Is
known to all and it is a lovely ana
most covetabIe picture. No. 81. Inc
largest and perhaps most important
exhibit. catalogued, as The Pail and
the Coast''-not a bad title, for it en-
braces a very wide angle and must
have cost the artist many an anxious
moment in its intricate and difhcult
drawing. This picture is an object les
son in atmosphere. Here we nave
weird and dominating forms of vol
canic rock-as Mr.. Scott rather humor-
ously puts it in his catalogue, our
impressive old friend, the Pail. In
the hands of a tyro one could wen
imagine how hard and cutting these
most uncompromising rocks would De
depicted. Who has not heard the wall
of the amateur, Very fine, very strlk-
ing. but quite unpaintable; too vast
quite impossible for pictures! one
can almost imagine that Mr.. Scott, IN
the exuberance of his powers, has set
himself to show that the view from
the red gorge up there in the hills pre-
..l.. l,fFN hl
depicted IS late noon, when the sun
still high illuminates every ridge, but
leaves shadows in the deep vale be-
low the winding road. The bank of
Hilo-grass to the right rustles and gilt
ters in 1.-The wind that blows and for
ever seems to blow on that exposed gap
One almost expects to find some dodge,
some subterfuge in the drawing and
composition of such a width OF VleW'
but no. Again there is the same care
full fidelity. One could find ones way
across the canvas to the very dis
lance itself. And does the foregoing
imply hardness and painful exactitude?
Not a bit of it! The chief character
istic of this picture is its wonderful
softness. The lambent air of HAWAII
breathes all over it. 1t is
beautiful and striking work and we
say that it is the finest picture of this
world-renoWI ed view Which mas ever
been produced.
No. 81. Evening from the Pail" is
chiefly remarkable for its luminous
color an effect almost startling being
produced by the golden light on the
sky line with a large portion of the
d-distance and foreground being
dimly seen through the deep veil OF
of purple shadow thrown by the Pail
ridge. This picture is gem and has
been purchased by one of our citizens
for his English home.
No. IS. Might in the valley and
dawn on the hills is yet another as
pect of the Nuuanu valley. painted al
most a cock crow when the moon
flowers co cred with dew, carpet the
sleeping meadows. 1t is weird in the
extreme is the effect of gaunt trees,
struggling with choking parasites and
weird is the red flush that strikes the
crests of forest clad precipices whilst
below all is darkness.
No. ga, The Tai MahaI, Agra. In
dia,'' is a representation of the marble
tomb built by the great Mogue Jehan-
cir in memory of his fair wife Muir
Mahal. This superb building is visit
ed by thousands who all think it to be
beyond compare. In Mr. Scott's hands
it makes lovely little picture strong
in drawing. delicate in color and prac-
teal in feeling.
To conclude we would remark that
could the artist have heard half the
panegyrics bestowed on his refined
work he would be encouraged to stay
and paint more and more of our scene
ry which he paints so we'll