The San Francisco call., 1906-06-10


ripe and sparkling as the wine that
Iurked ruby-red under the dwellings, o-
the thrifty householder, gone the at
mosphere of Little 1taly-the intangi-
BILE thing that lured the artists 10 us
reet, and bade them set up their easeis
in it's shadow
old QUARTER, and aught that remains
is a memory.
Perhaps. though. 1T may come back
this little Italy-back to slopes thae
even now. are drawing upon their naAeo
sides a mantle OF green
But it win be new. with all the gar
ishness and pomp and arrogance OF
newness. and 1t will lack tone ana
background Tor its laushter-ioving
people
However. even memoirs worth
whilel
Trne IN his old love. Xavier Martinez
goes back 10 his studio at US MONT
gomery street IN a few weeks-tne
bsickmesons being willing.
The old building withstood the nre'
but got an awful twist from the shaAes
which came painfully near making an
angel OF Martinez.
Maurice Del Niue and others dug aim
ont of the debris. when he set out 10
save his pictures All Of these, m
Guiding the. rayer OF the Earth, were
moved as far as the hallway, Wnen
the soldiers ordered the rescuerS away.
Sadly the artist carried his brushes ana
easel-all he was permitted TO save
over the way to Del Mue's, turned the
key In the studio door. and left the
pictures TO burn
But by a vagary of fate. all Of the pic
lures were saved. and the brushes and
easel so eagerly carried to Del Mues
were destroyed. together with every
thing in the young painters studio
Martinez is planning TO arrange MS
studio precisely IL stood before the
hre-the only studio in the Quarter
that escaped
Lorenzo p. Latimer left for the red- =
woods about Healdsburg on Wednes-
day where he will camp with his fam
ilv through the summer. And in July
his summer class will be in Iuil sway
lust as though nothing at all had hap
pened. But that's way with West
erners-it's indigenous to the climate
like the Mariposa lily.
The first studio in town to be in full
working order is Ada Romer Shaw
hans, out at 1886 Sacramento street.
And prettier studio would be hard TO
find As matter of fact, Mrs. Shaw
han didn't find the studio-it found her.
Before the fuss" Mrs. Shawhan's
workshop, '-rhe Rookerie." at Sixth and
Market. was one of the show studios
in town. with it's roof garden and great
living-room-
Joseph Greenbaum has hiked on TO
Los Angeles, where he has become the
pet of the Ruskin Club-tO which. oy
the way. the debonair Sequoian takes
most naturally. The club has pro-
vided Mr. Greenbaum with charm
rr-ho has
time at portraiture- If he stays long
enough, every southern beauty VIII nno
herself upon cansas.
THEODORE wores is another local artist
transplanted to southern climes.
The wores method is especially
adaptable to sunny daylight express
sions. and while wandering about the
orange groves he's laying by some sood
studies.
Leslie Hunter. whose studio was To-
Gated in the building next to Coppa s.
and went both down and up on the
18th. is foraging for marerlal up IN
Lake County The poor chap lost
every one of the beautiful studies ne
brought back from abroad. notably the
things from his bonny ScotlandF-a loss
that only a fellow-painter can know.
Plans are afoot to erect a temporary
structure at once-the insurance peo-
pie making good-upOn the old site OF
the Art Institute. wherein TO house the
school of Design, the students or when
are importunate for the resumption or
work. And all the teaching force Is
ready.
Just what will be done with the
s150,OO0 insurance money is not vet de-
cided upon. a matter in which MT.
SearIes will have something to say It
is upon this errand that Captain Rob-
ert Fletcher is now in New YORK.
Let us hope that a suitable building
for exhibition purposes will be erected
"a fit home for the Art Association OF
San Francisco. fireproof, quakeproof
and above all. accessible,
Young Pfazzoni has made tremen-
dous hit in Rome. where at recent
exhibition all his pictures were hung
on the line.
Israel Putnam, the sculptor, with
whom the painter left San Francisco,
has also been successful exhibitor. his
masterful Puma being sold TO a noble
Roman.
A. w. Best. whose studio was one OF