Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-13
HIGH STANDARD SET
BY PAINTERS CLUB
LOCAL AND FOREIGN SCENES
ADMIRABLY TREATED
Landscapes Predominant, but Por
traits and Historical Subjects
Occupy Honorable Place
in Varied Display

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Los Angeles Painters club sets STAN
GARD very encouraging to lovers of art
on the coast. 1t promises to become
an annual event to be much looked
forward to, and fulfills to a gratifying
| extent all the expectations aroused by
the inspirations of California's climate
and the infinite variety of subjects
| treated.
The exhibition covers wide enough
range to yield credit to state pride;
and there Is just enough foreign tone
to it to set off we'll the Californian's
love for his own. One accustomed to
eastern art exhibits would notice this
at once, while not the less acknowledge
Ing that the local choice of subjects
has added greatly to the pleasure of
viewing the exhibition.
Some of the paintings are sure to
be purchased for their historical value,
particularly those in which Charles A.
Rogers and Martin ]. Jackson have
caught with such fidelity the quaint
| ness of Chinatown scenes. Mr.. Rogers,
too, has preserved scenes of the San
Francisco of the disaster in his
Ruined Columns of the San Francisco
City Hail." and After Quake and
extremely difficult subjects. His
painting. "Chinese Kitchen" is an
admirable color handling, but he is
perhaps at his best in THE Way to
All Lin's Abode" and in another oil
painting, 1.-THE Balcony"
There are many fine marines and
coast scenes, David Dunn, Albert
Clinton Conner, Norman st. Clair and
| Carl Oscar Borg being leading con-
tributors. The unusual painting-and
no exhibition Of paintings is complete
without one-is Carl Oscar Borg's
large oil painting, 1.-The Seal Hunters,
Island of Santa Cruz" The feeling.
grouping and color in this canvas are
more than admirable in their combin-
alton. One of Mr. Borg's latest paint
ings, pelican Bay, Island of Santa
| Cruz" is among five by which he is
Hunters" and in contrasting treatment
is his La Mission de Santa Barbara"
Inland Scenes Depicted
David Dunn's best marine painting
is his ION Laguna Coast" but there
is also quality in his inland studies,
and particularly in "Showery at
! Rubio."
Albert Clinton Conner also has not
confined his selection to the coast sub
! jects, and "Midwinter in San Gabriel
Valley and two other country studies
by the president of the Painters club
add to the quality of the exhibition.
Norman ST. Clair has contributed
some excellent landscapes in water
color. Frank Conner exhibits some in
! teresting marines.
Those who look for William Wendt's
work will not be disappointed. Be
sides a characteristic poppy field he
shows other spring paintings of spe-
cial interest, including a rich view,
| entitled 'Cloudland."
A charmingly variant note in the
exhibition is found in the softly vague
paintings exhibited by Frank Elwfll
Evans. One of these, '"The Call of the
Brook" represents the Indian maidens
coming to the brook to battle just at
dusk, and the detail is softly subdued
with just the right touch. Mr.. Evans
has a faculty of aptly fitting his titles
to the style of painting he excels in,
as his "List'ning to the Song of the
Moon" evidences.
Frank r. Lidell is prominent as
water colorist and his "San Bernar-
dino Mountains" and Approach of
Night" present his style to advantage.
Landscapes predominate in the eX-
hibition, but the quality in Hanson
Puthuffs Portrait Study of Miss s."
would give it prominence in larger
number of similar studies. Lack of
room prevented the placing of the
painting to the advantage it is de-
serving of. Among the landscapes Mr..
Puthuff's "On the Mesa" holds
leading place, as does A. e. Kilpat-
riek's coat Mountain"
In his treatment of horses heads
Harry L. Bailey has admirably
handled a difficult subject, and he is
we'll represented with "The Workers
and "Dobbin," although his work is
not confined by any means to animal
paintings.
Charles P. Austin has some inter
esting impressions in pastel and char
| coal. Burton S. Boundey has con-
tributed a number of neighborhood
studies in oil, and his charcoal STUDY
in Oaks" is an attractive bit of work.
The black and white collection forms
q feature of the exhibition, and in this
the work of j. w. Theiss, who also
has a number of water colors, is prom
inent. His study of "An Old Adobe"
! is a characteristic pencil sketch, while
in pen and ink work he has caught
in a fine manner the possibilities of
"a Foggy Day" He has a sepia
drawing worthy of special mention in
"The Ruin"
The exhibition of the Painters club
will continue at the Blanchard gallery
until October 81.