The San Francisco call., 1908-12-06

craftsmanship are now on view. THE
exhibit ranges from pictures to candle
shades and beautiful things ere beheld
In, bewilderifg variety. Several well
known artists have embraced this op-
portunity to exhibit their work, and
the rooms are Well worth a visit. The
officers of the Arts and Crafts are re-
joicing in the promise of a successrul
and well attended exhibit F. H Never
is president of the associati ton. Douglas
Van Denburg, honorary vice president.
Miss Octavia Holden first vice Miss
Rosa Taussig, second vice. Miss Jeanne
Alferitz, secretary, and E. Meyer. treas
urer.
The exhibit of sketches and paintings
done while abroad by Mrs. Alice Chit
tenden, which closed yesterday. was one
of the most successful held this season.
Schusslers gallery. where the 40 can
vases were hung, held constant throng
OF Visitors VINO came not only to admire
but to buy. as the eight pictures sold
in one day testified. The presentation
of landscapes of European chara cter
doubtless appealed to a public some
whatmore familiar with the grays and
terra Gotta of California scenes.
An exhibition of the work of a proun
of local artists is scheduled TO talxa
place at the Studio building in Presi-
dio avenue some time ia the near
future. The Studio building exhibits
are always OF unusual merit and the
coming one may be confidently looked
forward to with expectations of
pleasure.
The American impressionfst. Mary
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cularly in France, than at home gave
an exhibition recently in Paris which
has attracted the attention of the most
able and critical figures of the art
world. Miss Cassatt Is distinguished
by being one oS the few women on
whom the French government has
bestowed the cross of the legion Of
honor. She was a pupil OF Degas.
the head of the impressionist school.
Exhibitions given by this celebrated
woman artist are. rare, and the occur
renee of one is the signal for flock
ing of painters and critics to the scene.
Regarding the conceded merit of Miss
Cassatt's work, the New York Times
has the following:
Miss Cassatt's place among the mod
erns will hardly be disputed by any
critic OF any country or period. She
has in the first place the power of
creating the appearance of life. not
merely resemblance to the visible
features, but that infinitely more diff
fcult likeness that dweIls in the sug-
gestions given by the features of their
ability to move, to change, to Quicken
into animation and to lapse into re-
pose. In her wonderful representations
OF women and children one sees that
the blood runs freely in their veins.
that they are sound, fresh and natural
creatures, with rich lines and easy,
ample gestures.
She has also, technique remarkable
for its combination of the virtues OF
two styles commonly considered antag-
onistic-the style of the impressionist
and that of the masters of line. Pos
sibly from Degas, whose Influence upon
her during the early years of her
career was marked. she learned the
almost passionate precision of line that
leaves no inexpensive contour or cur
sorry notation of fact At all events.
she achieved that mastery of linear
effect with amazing promptitude and
has never sacrificed it in her pursuit of
the fnnumerable other qualities of
great art for which the thoughtful
painter must needs strive
More slowly. and with occasional re-
verses. she gained an equal mastery
over the realization of different tex
lures and the representation of the
color and quality OF living flesh In
her later pictures al traces of hardness
have disappeared and the lovely and
simple modelling of her rosy children
In the arms of their mothers has sell