The San Francisco call., 1909-09-26
California Artist Shows Good
Work, Including Two Splen-
did French Scenes
By Margaret Marshall Doyle

By Margaret Marshall DOYLE
Charles Dickman, who has been away
on sketching trips at intervals during
river and TO Woodside. has reopened his
studio in Montgomery street It is To-
Gated in an interesting old building that
somehow escaped the devastation Of
1906 and is more than worth a visit for
the remarkable canvases on view. Al
together there are not more than
dozen paintings. but each is striking in
its own way. There are eight or nine
good, strong landscapes in oil and two
or three beautiful heads. and while SUBJ
Jects near home have appealed TO his
genius, two of his French scenes are
worthy of more than passing comment
One of these. a Brittany subject, is
painted in the early blue moonlight
that sometimes comes with the twi-
light The scene represents an old
Brittany home just as the day is dying
in the hour just after the afterglow
and just before the night. The toll
worn figures in the foreground are
trudging weayily home after the days
work in the fields. their rakes over
their shoulders. And it IS the true
home touch given by the artist that so
strongly appeals.
Very exquisitely is the light of home
brought out-a patch of warm, well
coming, golden red filtering through
the window easement. This dash of
rich light brings into greater contrast
the coidness of the moonlight. the early
moonrise effect that is painted in as
high a key as it can possibly be han
died.
The quaint old house, the trim gar
da-,
silhouette against the wall make the
painting wonderful. but the warmth of
home and the peace and rest it implies
render it doubly attractive
The idea for another meritorious can
vas was CLEANED from the northern
coast of France. 1t is a particularly
strong marine scene. painted in the
moonlight with the moon well up over
the water. Nearly every color the ar
tist has brought into play. purple.
green. blue. yellow, all deiicately
blended into a perfect whole Both of
these paintings have been completed
recently.
A scene nearer home is entitled
Dawn" II is done in the early morn
ing, after a heavy storm, and before
the sun is up. 1t is really beautiful-it
is so wild and wind tossed and storm
bent. and it is pity that Dickman
does not decide upon having it hung
somewhere where 1t viii show to bet
ter advantage.
Dickman is at present engaged on
the painting of the panel for the wine
room of the new Family club house. 1t
is a large canvas to be set in a bas
relief which Haig Patigan is design
ing. The woodwork of the room is to
be gray, and the setting for the paint
ing gray, so it is really to be mono
tone in light gray. and should be most
effective and striking. The scene of
the panel is the Family farm at Wood
side with the trees. the tents and the
distant blue hills well brought out
The canvas is flooded with silver moon
light, and in the center stork. the
emblem of the club. throws a brilliant
artificial light on the assembled fam
ily." 1t is a very beautiful canvas, the
artificial and moonlight effect being
very wonderful in combination.
Charles Roilo Peters contempIates
returning to New York in the near
future. His friends are rejoicing In the
fact that before the close of October
he will have most of his late canvases
on exhibition at one of the large New
York galleries. His family will shortly
join him in the east, and before winter
they will all sail for Europe. as Peters
contempIates king London his head
quarters for the present.
His work has made a decided hit on
the other side, London critics praisins
it very highly. 1t is so famous here
that little need be said in praise of 1t.
His forte has so far been mainly moon
light effects, but his paintings that
have won such favorable comment in
London have all been rich with sun
light.
He is making a special study Of sun
light just at present. and most of the
canvases to be on view are in this new
note Those who have seen his work
in his London studio say that 1t is ex-
ceiIent. and his coming exhibition will
draw an unusual amount of attention.
as IL is almost as we'll known in the
east as Ii is here
Some very striking pictures are at
present on view in the Del Monte art
galleries, and before winter most of
the artists who make Monterey, Pa