The San Francisco call., 1907-06-24
New School of Industrial Art to
Begin Work Today in Berkeley
BY Hanna Astrup Larsen

nied that there are some that indeed
serve the purpose of frightening the
large wall spaces of the Sequoia club
rooms, but which have not the intrinsic
merit that ought to be required. Ca
laveras Big Trees" by Chris Jorgensen,
gives the beholder a feeling as If the
trees were actually in the room and
threatening to crush one under
weight of wood and bark. There are
several others which have the mega
tive merit of being less pretentious,
but which might with advantage be
spirited away to give room for some
thing of more positive merit.
Maynard Dixon has just completed q
| decorative library frieze which his fell
! low artists think is one of the most
successful things he has ever done Il
is new departure leading him into
the held of mural decoration, zens
which he has for some time been am
bilious of conquering and which it
would seem that his gift for strength
or outline and clear, simple coloring
would make him fitted for. The ma
terials used are distemper colors and
heavy detail paper. The subject is
that of the Monterey hills and bit OF
beach showing the line OF the ocean it,
the distance The color scheme scalls
for the brown of the summer hills tom
ing into the old adobe houses, the gray
of the sky and the blue of the ocean
line with the blackish green of che oaks
and expresses jutting weirdly into the
long, level lines of earth and sky.
Dixon's work as an illustrator and
painter is of so Individual an excellence
that any new work of his must be re-
garded with interest. The frieze was
painted for the library of D. ]. Patter-
son.
In spite of his big commissions and
his regular work, Dixon has found time
to perpetuate a number of his fellow
artists and bohemians on the walls At
Coppa's, which will soon blossom out
In old time splendor. Among the art
lists who have promised to contribute
to the gallery are Martinez, Perry,
Newberry, Will Stevens and Mrs. Cum
ningham.
Ernest Peixotto arrived in Berkeley
| last week and will spend two or three
months there before returning to his
New York studio.
Keith's exhibition in Macbeth's gall
lery in New York has been quite pho
nomenal, every picture in the collection
being sold. The instant response of
New York art lovers to the California
artists work was shown by the fact
that nine pictures were sold during the
Theodore wores is spending the most
of his time in painting near San Rafael.
He is living in an ark and says that
the simple life is not all it is cracked
up to be. but that the oaks and marshes
of Greenbrae are worth the trouble,
however. Wores comes down twice
week to teach his classes in the sum-
mer school of the art institute,
L. P Latimer will leave in a day or
two with his sketch class for his usual
summer sketching trip. Latimer's ex-
hibition, which he had planned to hold
at local art dealers store, has been
postponed until September.
Arthur Putnam returned recently
from Paris.
Evelyn Mccormick is back from Mon
terey and has established her studio
in her home in this city.
Eva Withrow left last week for Eu.
rope. She will spend a short time in
Paris and will then go to Munich. where
she will continue her study of art.
Henry Raleigh is painting in Mexi-
CO. He is a former San Franciscan
who has made a success in New York
as a magazine illustrator
Eugene Neuhaus comes to the city
every week to direct the Saturday class
in the art institute.
Miss Frances Soule Campbell is
sketching at Carmel.
The exhibition of pastels by Anne
Pierce still continues at the quarters
of the California guild of arts and
crafts.