Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-28
ART STUDIOS
BY MONA L. WHITE

hiot0 tHoh lilty pictures III ah-ih-
Guiding oils, water-colors and a few
strong pencil drawings. Mr.. Mocine has
been represented in all of the large
general art exhibitions during his five
years residence here. usually small
| sketches painted in the open air. Many
times their motifs were drawn from
the vicinity of San Pedro, for Mr..
Mocine is attracted by the weather.
beaten spiles and boats reflected in
the quiet water OF the harbor, under
gray aspects. Though these were
small pictures they never failed to
make an impression and they told the
story of a man of temperament. Since
| those days he has spent year and
| half in European study and travel.
Eight months were lived in Paris, six
months in Holland, then the remaining
| time he sketched in Italy and Spain.
This first opportunity of seeing COM
prehensive gathering of his work bears
out the good impression made by his
earlier ventures. Mr.. Mocine is so In
dependent thinker and painter that
| he has not been led Sstray by the new
| influence, and Holland, with her dikes
and sleepy canal life, with the moist
atmosphere, was simply larger OPP
portunity for the earlier grays that he
| had found at San Pedro The more
brilliant colors of italy and Spain have
given a richer tone. more depths to
| his grays, and one appreciates the
more settled technique. 1t is not sur
prising that he should invest with
subtle charm the atmospheric effects
| that he has painted, for he was born
and lived until a well-grown lad in a
| little hamlet an Oregon, which was
perched upon a mountain slope, backed
by thickly wooded country and fac
ing a shimmering harbor. Among
lumber and fishing interests he has
lived very near to nature and imbibed
her charm. The two most important
pictures of the exhibition are ''Moon-
rise-Oak Knoll" which is most SYM
pathetically treated, and EARLY Even
| ing-at the Plaza" where the diff
cult matter of expressing two lights
that of the coming night and the flare
/ of the street lamps upon the church
and the passing f1gures-is done with
| great richness of low tones. There is
| a certain bigness in the way that Mr..
Mocine treats his subjects, no matter
| what may be the dimensions of the
canvas. OF the fifty sketches shown
there Is uniformity of merit and to
select a favorite is largely a personal
matter. This exhibition will remain
in the gallery for two weeks.
| q
with the closing of the years school
work there Is a general scattering OF
the various artists in charge of the art
departments. Nellie H. Gier. whose
exhibition of the normal schools
classes was finer than ever. has al
| ready gone to her former home in Chi
cago. May Gearhart, with the cessa-
ton of public school duties, will sail
for England, to attend an art congress,
as will Mrs. w. H. Housh after which
an extended tour will be taken. James
E. McBurney of the high school is
too recently new to the beauties OIL
California to desire anything better,
and will spend the summer In sketch
ing about this locality. The closing
of Throop Polytechnic institute at
| Pasadena, which occurred last week
with a show of such fine work, brought
to mind how fortunate are craft work.
ers and students who receive the able
instruction of Ernest Batchelder,
whose knowledge in these lines has at
tracted pupils from all over this state.
Mr. Batchelder's reputation is SO
firmly established in eastern cities
that with the aid of corps Of able
assistants he will give at the summer
| school of the handicraft guild at Min
neapolis lectures and criticisms or
work each day during the session
| During the five weeks course or this
summer school, which occurs June 10
to July H. inclusive. there will gather
the advanced workers from long dis
tances. as this is one of the strongest
guilds of the ahandicraft workers
With the advance of summer, which
lis always a dull time in the studios,
one by one come the changes. 1t Is
far from a pleasurable sensation TO
announce the death of the local arts
and crafts movement and to learn tnat
the pleasant club room at 71S South
Snring street is to be dismantled. The
furnishings which formed so good
nucleus are to be scattered by sale.
r. Mackay Fripp has worked for the
advancement of this club with an UNI
firing ZEAL and it is with regret that
Ione learns of his probable removal to
the north, where he formerly resided.
The artists of any country need the
understanding interest and sympathy
from the people among whom they
live. Some of these things with some
is an inherited instinct. but a general
appreciation comes from study and by
surrounding ones self with beautiful
objects.
Regina OKane Is once more In her
studio in Cumnock hall, 1900 South
Figueroa street, after year of study
land travel ABROAD. MISS ~ Name re-
turns a veritable authority on the ma
tional gallery and has been asked to
share her knowledge. She comes back
rested and full of enthusiasm for the
classes in composition and design,
which she will resume July l. For the
second time Miss OKane was so for
tunate as to receive the criticisms of
Frank Brangwyn during his summer
class and no artist of the day is re-
ceiving more merited attention than
is Mr. Brangwyn for the splendid work
he is doing. Several of her studies
made at Montreul-sur-Mer are broadly
treated in low toned masses and are
full of sympathy. Miss O'Kane will
receive her friends socially on Satur-
day afternoons.
There have been going the rounds of
the press eulogistic notices of the pres
entation ceremonies to the University
of Nevada of the building for school
of mines, and the unwilling of the
statue which is to be known as the
John w. Mackay memorial, by his son,
Clarence Mackay. Considerable space
is devoted to minor details connected
with the occasion, but in no case is
the sculptor's name mentioned. That
he has conceived a creation to every
ones satisfaction and to his own credit
is apparent, as one writer says: with
the pulling OF the rope which fastened
the great American flag the magnif-
cent statue burst to view and a cheer
went up" The interested one remains