Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-29

ELDOM has Los Angeles been
privileged to view such works Of
- eminent foreign painters as are
now being shown at the Salon dart
These pictures include works by Sir
Francis Van Lemputten, John Terris,
Max Won Muller, Indoni, Simonetti,
Casslers, Wadham and Pyne. besides
several we'll known local painters.
Sir Francis Van Lamputten, whose
gold medals, numbering fourteen,
would make a catalogue in themselves,
aside from the salons in which he has
acted as a member of the jury, is
represented by one canvas in the local
collection, and which is the only one
of his works on the Pacific coast, If not
in the west.
It is q Holland scene, with peasant
woman driving the sheep home in the
foreground, while in the background IS
the Inevitable windmill and some red
roofs which add a pleasing bit or
I brightness. The sky Is a picture In it
self. SO admirably are the cool grays
handled. The foreground is in cool
browns and greens and gives a sense
of broadness, while in reality 1t is han
died in a very smooth manner.
Symphonies In Brown
Two of the gems of the collection are
water colors by John Terris. THESE
paintings reach depth seldom attained
| in oils and are simple in motif, while
having that indescribable something
which attracts the beholder. In eacn
case an old English house is given, with
| a winding street and a distant sunset
sky. From the sky to the nearest
foreground they are symphonies IN
brown. with a bit of red In the roofs
and passing peasants as rellet.
Whistler has admirably described the
scenes:
And when the evening mist clothes
the riverside with poetry. as with
veil, and the poor buildings lose them
selves in the dim sky, and the tall chim1
neys become campaniles, and the ware
houses are palaces in the night, ana
the whole city hangs in the heavens,
and fairyland is before us-then the
wayfarer hastens home; the working
man and the cultured one, the wise
man and the one of pleasure, cease to
understand as they have ceased to see,
and Nature, who, for once, has sung
in tune, sings her exquisite song to the
artist alone, her son and her master,
her son in that heiloves her, her master
| in, that he knows her"
"a Village in Surrey" and An Olo
Part of CORNWALL are entirely differ
ent from anything ever shown IN Los
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local artists.
Mr.. Terris freely scrubs" his works
which gives them faraway elusive
ness, while retaining the depth Of th'
4 subject.
Entirely different is the treatment o.
| Cassier5 in his street scene in the ole
| country. He also uses browns to q
great extent, but of a different tone
as well as handling, the latter being o1
! a harder and precise nature, while COM
bining atmosphere in 1t.
F. Charlet, winner of a gold medal
at the ST Louis exposition, has two
works in the local exhibition which are
as different as the north is from the
south, yet much the same in subject
Mother and Children" in water colors,
is full of the gray and cold atmosphere
of old Holland, while Sunday" show
ing a man and child, is in oils and Is
in bright colors, yet handled in cool
tones, but is vivid in contrast to the
first. Both are well in their styles, and
present characteristic life in Holland.
The old English school is represented
by Thomas Pyne. Mr. Pyne works in