Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-29
Art Notes
BY ELIZABETH wAGGoNEK

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Steckel gallery will be continued /
"A indefinitely and is one well worth
repeated visits. The paintings are eN-
ceptionally well hung and have been
carefully selected. one wall devoted to
the canvases of Jules Pages would
alone induce visitor to linger in this
quiet room, restful in its subdued light
and color harmony. Mr.. Steckel is
the fortunate purchaser of Mr.. Pages /
salon picture Of last year, but equally
full of interest are the artists be
witchng views of St. jean de Luz his
Garden at -Bretagne,' splr-
tied bit of brushWork, Back From
Market" charming with its deity
handled touches of exquisite color, and
the "Old Well in An Abandoned Con
vent" rarely good in technic and re-
fined in color. The paintings are not
new to Los Angeles having been shown
here for some months, but they only
grow in charm under close study. The
collection of paintings by local artists
is superior to some of the earlier eX-
hibitions of the year The work OF
Hanson Puthoff especially has contin-
ued to grow in Vigor and breadth "i
handling, and Carl oscar Borg in the
treatment of his fascinating subjects
shows marked advance both in
technic and in artistic feeling. Tho
most casual visitor could not fail to
note the dominant quality Of the single
canvas by Jean Mannheim. The swift
dfrectness of the handling makes this
landscape one of the distinctive ones
OF the exhibition.
Among the paintings now being
shown at the Kanst gallery is a charm
ing figure study by Carl A. Freiseke,
one of a group of half a dozen young
American artists rapidly achieving
distinction in Paris who sent over
number of their canvases for a joint
exhibition a year or so ago The paint
ing shown here is one of those eX-
hibited in the eastern galleries and was
one of the conspicuous ones of the eX-
hibition. 1t is very beautiful in its
arrangement of blues and green's, from
the dark blue of the bowl raised in the
hands of the seated figure, down
through the blue green drapery into
the foreground while the delicately
rendered flesh tones and mellow golden
background lend a permeating warmth
of color. Very thinly painted, the pic
ture is distinctly decorative in quality,
in marked contrast to the vigorous
handling and strong human interest Of
the Lancerotto Madonna hung on
the same wall. A number of small land
scapes by Granville Redmond are a
feature Of this gallery and recall the
fact that the first painting purchased
at the Alaska-Yukon exposition was
from the brush of this artist, sold to
the governor of Washington before the
exhibition was fairly open.
Mrs. Herman j. Hail. during her re-
cent sojourn in Los Angeles in the in
terests of the art gallery of the Acad-
emy Of Fine Arts of Chicago, ar
ranged for an exhibition by the paint
ers of Southern California to be held
in Chicago in the autumn or early
winter. Not more than thirty or forty
canvases will be shown and these Sc
lected with a view of making it truly
representative exhibition. Since Will
liam Wendt has made the peculiar
charm of California landscape familiar
to the art-lovers of Chicago and Nor
man ST. Clair also found ready appre-
citation Of his interpretations of the
same subjects in watercolor, there is
no doubt that the exhibition will be
a noteworthy one and result in bring
ing the painters of the Pacific coast in
closer touch with those of the east and
middle west.
At the opening of the state normal
school in September Miss Gere will
have a capable assistant in the art de-
partment in Miss Regina O'Kane. Any
school is fortunate in having this
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teachers possessed of such genuine ar
tistic feeling. The work of both of
these artists ranks among the very
best of the women painters of Califor-
MIA. Miss Gere has exhibited, both in
Chicago and in Los Angeles, number
of delightful landscapes. One of these
in particular, "a Vista in the Arroyo
Seco," will be remembered as a notable
expression of the rare loveliness Of
California landscape. One of the most
vital paintings shown in the spring ex-
hibition of the Fine Arts league was a
landscape by Miss O'Kane, charming
in it's spontaneity. Miss Helen Chanler,
who so ably assisted Miss Gere last
year at the normal school, has re-
signed from the force of teachers in or
der to devote her time to painting. She
is particularly happy in her treatment
of landscape, both in charcoal and in
color, and is spending the summer
sketching in Monterey, where, the ar
lists say, one gets the nearest in this
country to the ethereal quality of the
Mediterranean. Miss Chanler will go
from Monterey to her beautiful new
studio now being built at Berkeley,
overlooking the waters of the bay.
With such ideal surroundings and leis-
ure to devote to painting we may hope
to see something from her hands at
the exhibitions of the coming year.
The Elbridge T. Fowler memorial
tablet recently executed by Julia
Bracken Wendt, was to have been in
place for the dedication on Wednesday
of the new wing of the Pasadena hos
pital given as a memorial to Mr.. Fow-
Ter by his wife and daughter, but ow-
ing to delays in the casting the tablet
will be installed later. 1t is a beauti-
full example of Mrs. Wendt's mastery
handling of low relief Poetic and
thoughtful Is her creations always are,
it is most satisfying as a memorial.
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It is reported that Alexander Stirling
Calder and his talented wife are soon
to go to New York city to remain in
definitely. 1t is to be hoped that other
commissions such as the important one
Mr.. Calder is now executing for the
new Throop institute in Pasadena will
ultimately recall him..
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Southern California will not be slow
in awakening to the tremendous possl-
bilities of sculpture in correlation with
the architecture in which it is so pre-
eminent and will sooner or later grow
to be the Mecca, not of painters alone
but of sculptors as well. Nothing can
bring this about more speedily than an
adequate place for the exhibition of
sculpture. When the plans of the Fine
Arts league have taken form in per-
manent building, including a spacious
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