The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-22
FIRST VIEW
Of kILOHANA
Local Artists Show Many Fine
CanVases at Thirtieth
Exhibition

= view reception last nlght, tne occdslo
, being the thirtieth semi-annual exhi
, bition of the League.
The reception was very well attende
and pleasant evening was spent
wandering from one canvas to another
chatting with friends and slipping coo
lemonade.
Among those who received We're
Mrs. Howard Hitchcock. Mrs. ". NJ
Graham, Miss Grace Robertson, Mis-:
Alice spalding, Miss C. Garden, Miss
McStocker, D. Howard Hitchcock
Gordon Osborne, Chas. r. Frazier, DR.
A. N. Sinclair, J. H. Cation.
There are fifteen oils and thirty-fou1
water colors in the exhibition, of which
! D. Howard Hitchcock contributes thir.
teen of the former and twelve of the
latter.
The next largest exhibitor is JOS I
Whittle with twelve water colors
Alice Spalding comes next in number
of exhibits with four water colors
Otto Wix has three in this class.
While the number of exhibitors in
the classes mentioned is very small
the general standard of work is higher
than has been the case at recent ex-
hibitions of the league. Some of the
canvases are as fine as anything that
has ever been seen here.
The ceramics and modelling section
is well worth attention and contains
the work of such well known artists
as Jane Lishman More, Anabelle Low
Augusta Graham. Gordon osborne,
Mrs. L. Abrams, Miss McStocker, and
Miss M. E. Chapman,
The Photographic section contains
much fine work from che cameras of
r. w. Perkins, Chas. r. Frazier, A.
Gartley, DR.. A. n. Sinclair. DR.. w r.
Brinckerhoff, D. Howard Hitchcock,
and ]. H Cation.
The finest things in the oils are perA
haps Hitchcock's Barking Sands of
Mana" and Canoes
This artist has reached a higher
ideal in his present exhibits than he
has previously attained and is I'M
doubtedly Hawafis artist par excel
lence
In Canoes one sees three canoes
drawn up on. a sandy beach with
typically Hawaiian sky and sea to
lend the charm of color to the scene.
Barking Sands of Mana" shows a
hill of white sand on a sandy plateau,
with green vines climbing upward.
Behind are purple-brown mountains
and on one side the breaking sea-
Prominent in the picture is a pool of
still water in which the lovely blue
of the sky is tellingIy reflected
Grace Robertson has a graceful study
in oil of the Alamanda flower, which
was generally admired. The picture is
very tastefully framed.
Kauai Beaches by Hitchcock is a
fine sea effect and the distant table
land is tellingly done. The lauhala
tree which makes the centerpiece of
the picture is lffelike and the artist
has treated the effect of the wind on
the leaves very happily.
Trade Wind Clouds by the same
artist was painted on a mountainside
at sunset. Overhead great clouds ap-
pear to b e on the point of rolling
down the mountain, and looking at the
picture one can almost feel the night
wind blowing.
THE Shore Line, Kalalau'' by Hitch
cock is a powerful study and this and
the study of the barking sands en-
body the artists best ideals of land |
scape painting and are possibly the
finest work that he has done in this
particular line.
Inside the Reef" another Hitchcock, |
conveys all the sunny gladness of an
Hawaiian morning by the sea. In the
canoe may be noted small boy max |
ing a great show of padding while an
old man is seen to be doing the hard !
work
''Manoa from Waikiki by the same |
artist. is a sunset study. and is re-
markable for it's wonderful valley col |
oring which is an emerald blue, for
that is perhaps the best way to de- |
scribe the fairy light which sometimes |
floods the cleft of Manoa.
Hitchcock has two volcano pictures, |
''Halemaumau at Night" and Sun |
rise from Kilauea.''
The latter is a unique study and in |
it the fires of the pit are made to pale
the sunset rays flashing on the snow /
capped peak of Mauna I1oa. The atmos- /
phere of the pit is depicted in a great /
degree of its awesomeness and alto /
gether the picture is the most SEN |
sational in the exhibition.
Gordon sUsborne shows a miniature |
of his statue of the late President Nc /
kinney which is TO be erected in the /
new High school grounds. The pose
is excellent and the likeness of the
martyred president a telling one. Cor
don osborne is a sculptor Of more than
ordinary promise
Otto Wix, in his three water colors. !
is the same splendid draughtsman and +
good technician. His studies showed !
To fine advantage in the light Ia ST rfob+ /