The Washington herald., 1907-09-29

where one may lead the simple life 10
ones hearts content such are Annis-
guam and East Gloucester At the lat
ter fashionable hotels are creeping In,
but they have not yet taken possession
of the land. Here the artists and lit
erateurs congregate with simple folk
who seek the country for rest and rec
reatOn. At Annisquam are sand dunes
impossible TO be found anywhere this
side OF England and these are dearly
loved of the artists colony. Rocks and
sea and picturesque fishing smacks
abound all along Cape Ann, and prove
an irresistible magnet to the artists
When asked what there was about
Gloucester and East Gloucester TO make
these places so alluring to artists, MIR.
Walter L. Dean gave. a most attractive
description of life on Cape Ann.
Il occupy a cottage in East Glouces-
ter" be said, through June, July, Au-
gust. September, October, and Novem-
ber-sIx months Of the year. My studio
is at Rocky Neck. on a wharf, which l
also own and which affords me a good
landing place for my float stage at the
end Of the wharf My little yacht, the
Cltheroe. m0ors in the cove and is but
a short pull from the landing. Glou-
cester holds me because of the fact that
l know of no other place so convenient
to Boston and New York and other
large centeTs that furnishes so great
variety of material for dTtistS-shlpping,
rocks and surf. beaches and landscape.
1T is a good place for boating. That
and the fishing vessels and other ship
ping furnish the principal attractions
in my case II also is a good place from
which To depart on a cruise. l had a
cruise this summer with the Boston
Yacht Club on the Maine coast 10
Booth Bay and beyond. There are many
other artists here now. and Duveneck,
Metcalf, Hassam, ThWachtman, Church
i'll. Walter Clark, Pot<hast. Case, and
many others have been here in previous
years.
MY yacht Clitheroe. by the way is
a Herreshoff production. and took first
prize in the third class on the Boston
Yacht Club cruise from Marblehead to
the Isles Of Shoals"
Mr. Walter Dean rarely begins work
until September, when the days are
grayer and the boats begin to return from
the hanks. Mr. Buhler also has a studio
and class He has just completed a pic
ture of an old fisherman listening 10 a
girl reading. and is well on the way with
another Of lifesavers. Mr.. KitsOn, q
sculptor, IS spending a few weeks in this
favored spot by way Of recreation.
Miss Jean Oliver and Miss Tilcomb are
sharing a studio together. and, like Miss
AtwateT. close by. receive visitors on
Saturday afternoons
Miss Celia Beaux is one Of the we'll
known artists who summers at East
Gloucester. Her studio is Green Alley, at
Eastern Point
Mrs. Rhoda Holmes Nichols has cozy.
attractive studio at the Sign of the
Ship GloUcester's 'teahouse." She and
her daughter live at the Hawthorn Inn,
and her daughter IS one Of the popular
girls Of the younger set. She is a friend
of Miss Margaret Overton. whose por-
trait Mrs. Nichols has been painting this
summer. The Overtons and the Berrys,
of Frankfort, KY, are lifelong friends,
the families having been friends for five
generations. Mr.. Edison Bradley, Of
Washington. and Mr.. Berry are intimate
friends and business associates Miss
Overton gave a tea al the sign Of the
Ship" for Miss Gordon, Mrs. BerTy's niece
and adopted daughter, this summer. at
which Miss Nichols was one OF the
guests. Mrs. Nichols is at work on a
life-size figure of an auburn-haired girl
of eleven years. She has also had class
this summer, the work being done en-
tirely out Of doors in the open. with Sat
uTday feyiews at the studio.
Mr.. Eric Pape Of Boston. had his
summer school near the famous Squam
Willows. at Annisquam. Another at
Annisquam is DR.. II. II. GallisOn.
Faithful to his sunsets, Mr.. William
P. Burpe goes forth at dusk to transfer
the beauty Of the sky to his canvas. Mr.
Parker Mann is AT his charming house.
Windover, ah Niles Beach. and the artist
laureate of tie downs and dunes is early
afield. Miss HelteT. Mr.. Buhler. and MT.
Valenkamph are a their studios at Rocky
Neck.
Miss Clements. Of Philadelphia, is IN
her sea girt summer home at Folly Cove.
while Mr.. Crafty is busy with clay and
trowel AT Lands End
Mr.. Charles Abel Corwin. whose clever
Gloucester studies are attracting much
attention. also is here. Miss Fletcher is
just in from Paris, where her last Salon
picture was hung on the line.
Mr.. Everett /. Warner, Of Washing
ton. is a familiar figure along the water
front
Others still are working at Pigeon Cove,
ROCkpOrt, among the pines al Beaver
Dam and along the wild upland waste
known as Dogtown Commons, a bleak and
bowlder strewn area as dreary and for
bidding as the entrance to the inferno.
Thus IS old Cape Ann encircled and in
vaded by It's beauty loving and beauty
seeking friends. IN every coign Of van
tage at every wharf among the fish
fakes and boat houses, they set up their
tripod easels. and, far and wide, over
down and dune, upland. marsh and
meadow, their white umbrellas the domi-
nant note. the high light on GlOuCeSter's
somewhat sober colored canvas. CLEAN
like an army of mushrooms.
It has been said that there is not an
other studio 10 be had in the Latin Quar-
ter Of Cape Ann for love or money
On the rolling downs Of Eastern Point
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has her summer
cottage, and here she gets inspiration for
her literary work, while the quaint old
town Of Gloucester, with its crooked,
winding streets, its fishing vessels, and
OF salt fish, has been the scene Of several
of her stories.
ALEXANDRIA.