The San Francisco call., 1908-08-23

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'.on top Of the world otherwise in the
high Sierras. Not satisfied with reach
ing Kings canyon, he attacked the
peaks OF the highest mountains he
could see, and there, lashed by the
mightiest Of mountain winds. which
forced him TO weight his easel down
with stones and fasten his canvas with
ropes while the gale tapped his pal
cite back and forth like a feather, he
sat amidst natures wonders and drank
in the beauty and majesty Of the noun
tain sOlitudes which he means some
time to transfer 10 canvas.
There are no words to express it
said Breuer, when asked regarding his
experiences in the untrodden mountain
peaks. 1t is an indehnable something
which comes to man when he is alone
with God and his soul. The wind was
blowing so wildly that I could hardly
guide my brush, and yet the sun was
so hot that my thumb, where it came
through the palette, was burned black.
The glory and the loneliness of those
solitudes is ma gnidcent. Not that felt
lonely-not for an instant. There was
too much Of the sheer Joy OF life for
that Perhaps some Of the clean white
shine Of those peaks got into my soul.
MOUNTAIN GUIDES INTERESTING
I tell you it makes a man feel small;
"a real pigmy-tO get there. And the
mountain guides-stolid. silent men
interested ne. They are so used to the
splendor OF the snow and the mountains
that they seldom raise their eyes TO be-
hold il, but talk with one of them-get
him 10 trust you-and then suddenly
ask him some question about what he
has seen-the rising brilliancy of a
sunset or the faint glow of the dawn,
and then he comes 10 life with-'but,
there was once sky, or something 6
like that, and then you know what il
has meant 70 him. Something which
he has seen once and never forgotten.
Those snow capped heights DO put
something into man which never
quite leaves him
Breuer has taken up studio quarters
ii the city again. At present he is
situated in the Noorhies building in a
large. light room. with a fine view
OF the avenue and OF the life below,
with the blue bay cleaning in the dis
tance- Breuer is as big as his work
You feel that the broad, far seeing. Wig
orous personality he expresses somehow
gets into his canvases. He works
slowly-perhaps some two or three
canvases year-but his work is so
splendidly worth while, the impress
sion produced is 50 big and satisfying
that one doesn't mind the waiting be-
tween pictures. Perhaps the canvases
OF those Sierra peaks may not be I'm
ished for q long time. but when you
think OF the wonderful scene and the
man and the work that is sure TO come
you are content TO wait.
STUDIO BUILDING WANTED
Breuer IS a vigorous advocate of the
immediate need for a studio building in
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he says. real studios" and where rents
for such shall not be prohibitive- As
a matter OF fact there are few studios
in the city since the FIRE. those on
Montgomery street having disappeared.
except two or three on the lower end,
which are occupied by Piazzoni, Put
nam and Cummings. These are true
scuIptors studios; large. airy and bare.
with a glorious skyIight and Uttered to
the doors with plaster casts and work
in various stages of Development.
Touching the subject Of studio
building, the matter is being agitated
Just now by Eugene Neuhaus. who has
approached the firm of Hawks & Pen
nell with the proposition that the owner
OF the Thomas Clunie building put UP
a certain number of studios. Letters
have been sent to a number Of artists
inQuiring II they wish q studio, and
what rent viii be paid. What VIII be
the outcome remains to be seem
SCULPTOR REPRODUCES WORK
Haig Patigian, who returned last
month from a trip to Seattle, is al
work in his studio in Olive avenue
again. and has finished a duplicate Of
former work which was destroyed by
the FIRE The conception is exceedingly
graceful and beautiful Called The
Tnquiet Soul" it represents a female
figure leaning backward. one out
stretched arm supporting her body on
rough blocked plaster base. the other
thrown above her head, which is class
ically small and of Greek type Waves
typical OF a restless sea. are dashing
about her feet. The lines Of the body
are long and exquisitely graceful and
the attitude though perhaps 4 trifie
strained. unusual and striking This
was Patigian's first serious work,
though IN the first working out Of the
idea. a male figure was used. As the
lines OF the female figure lend them
selves more to beauty and grace" says
Patigfan. I made the change Other
wise. the concept stands exactly as 1t
was"
The sculptor is now at work on a
plaster has relief TO be used as panel
above the fireplace in the Press club.
II is about feet long by wide and
ter of the panel is the figure OF a
woman IN a somewhat careless pose,
one arm thrown negligently over the
back Of the bench on which she sits,
a loose curl escaping from her lightly
coiIed hair. and folds OF drapery lying
abcnt her feet and the lower part of
her body The upper part is in the
nude. In one outstretched arm she
holds a cat. which. declares Patigian,
is dear to the heart Of every true Press
club member.
PANEL REPRESENTS CAT
we had q cat in Pine street" says
the sculptor. which in some mys-
terious manner was burned. He was Jet
black. ard on that account was ap-
propriately named Tombstone After
his decease another cat was found,
also jet black. which went by the
euphonlous title OF Tombstone IL But
he went up in smoke IN the big FIRE,
and this third one. whose representa-
ton you now behold. IS Tombstone III
This is the explanation OF the cats
presence on the panel. which would
otherwise seem queer in a work Of this
kind"
In the lower right corner of the
panel are pile OF books and the con-
ventional skull resting thereon; In the
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