The San Francisco call., 1908-09-06

r1HE biggest item OF news current
In the artists world is that OF the
4 erection of a studio building de-
signed expressly for artists and
their needs, occupying one of the most
desirable locations in the center OF the
downtown district. The name OF the
persons interested in the erection OF lne
building will not be made known until
next week The plans, as outlined can
for a large court on which the loWei
rooms will open, thus securing tnS
best light, while the rooms aooNe viii
have long French windows opening
into balconies extending across tue
width of the room. Every convenience
In the matter of lighting and space
will be considered. even 10 the pro.id-
ing of so called studio apartments aller
the manner of studio buildings In Ne"
York. where an artist and MS fattiiis
may live very comfortably, or Whefe
bachelor maids can take up their quar-
ters with the assurance of real WORKING
studios, where they may work ana
live at the same time. The studlo
apartments will contain living room'
kitchen. sleeping rooms and bath-
There also will be a large room on the
ground floor for Photographic uses ana
perhaps an exhibiting gallery me
building will be three stories high, ana
will contain "a studios, practically all
of which have been spoken for The
idea has created much enthusiasm
among the artists, who have suffered
in various ways from the lack or de-
sirables quarters and who are conf
planning vigorously of the ineonveni-
ences of work under present conditions
1t is desired to begin work on the
building next week in order that IL
may be finished and ready for occu-
pancy by the first OF the year. A
number of the best known artists have
signified their intention of coming
downtown to the new building, and al
together the enterprise seems cer-
tain to succeed,
DECORATING OF HOMES
Dickman, who has been hunting stu
dio headquarters without success since
coming up from Monterey, where he
did good work with the cypress trees
of the IL mile drive as his subject, has
new scheme in hand. 1t is nothing
more or less, than the experimenting
of the furnishing and decorating OF
homes along artistic lines 1T is. the
bane of the American home says the
artist, that there are so few directed
with intelligen taste or discrimination
with view TO q harmonious ensemble.
instead of the value of a single article
or two. Most Of the homes where
money has been spent lavishly are
shrieking horrors; the colors and pc
riods a perfect tumble, all swearing at
each other as the French say, and
thrown together only with regard TO
the liking for Individual objects in
stead Of with regard TO an effort to pro-
cure beautiful background for the
people who are to occupy it, For that
| is what a home should belt should be
Hike stage scene.
1T doesn't take any more time or
money to procure a harmonious envi-
ronment than 1T does to accomplish
hideously ugly one. So why shouldn't
people who are building homes have the
best there is? 1t is the same with pic
lures. Most people have blank space
or two which they want filed. A pic
ture is the first thing that occurs to
them, simply because it is the custom
to hang pictures on walls. So they take
the measurements OF the space and go
to the first picture dealers they think
of and find a picture-generally one
which tells story (which is a serious
defect in an artists eyes)--and buy
big gilt frame and are satisfied ever
after with their artistic discernment.
"A picture that tells a story-that is.
one in which the painter has confined
himself to rigid idea with a definite
outline in his mind as to what he in
tended to PRODUCES like a map. 1t
grows unspeakably monotonous Its
boundaries are fixed. 1t is like a
phonograph repeating the same tire
some phrase endlessIy, till it drives
you to distraction, whereas a picture
which only suggests and leaves you to
form your own ideas concerning il
gives scope for thousand fancies.
Each study of it reveals something
new; 1T is like delicate fantasy for
ever revealing undiscovered beauties
When a person is educated alongs these
lines he begins to see and understand
the real value of painting.