Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-16
Art Review
BY KATHRYN FUCKER


its monthly meeting last Tuesday
evening, is constantly increasing
in numbers and Importance From a
small group of workers it has grown to
body of about forty, having among
its members able professional men, con-
noisseurs and art patrons. F. w.
Blanchard, Charles Goskill and Rev.
Benjamin Hartley have recently been
accepted as associate members, and at
almost every meeting new names are
proposed and others previously passed
upon accepted. In accordance with the
purpose of the club, work by each of
it's active members is presented every
month for criticism, by which advance
ment and higher standard are sought.
s.
Martin J. Jackson is now at work
upon a large canvas, the subject of
which is a landscape taken near the
Church Of the Angels. The painting is
to be entered, together with another by
this artist, in the fine arts exhibit at
the Alaska YukOn-Pacific exposition
Mr.. Jackson has just completed an il
Elimination on parchment in the form
OF memorial, executed for an organ
ization of railway conductors. The
work was admirably done, further i'll
Illustrating the versatility of this artist,
who works also in water color and de-
signing. One of his most important oil
paintings, called Near Antwerp" was
lately purchased by several members Of
the Jonathan club as a presentation
gift to prominent citizen.
Southern California will be we'll rep
resented in the fine arts at the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific exposition. Among the
Los Angeles artists who will exhibit
are William Wendt, Charles A. Rogers.
Joseph Greenbaum, John A. Donovan
a nd
Barbara will be represented by Fer
nand Lungren and Rob Wagner.
John A. Donovan, who has returned
from Santa Barbara, gives us the liz
teresting news that Rob Wagner has
received commission for the portrait
of Milo Nj. Potter. His portrait of the
Graham children was accepted with
great enthusiasm and a reception held
by Mrs. Graham for a private view of
the painting, which was admired and
appreciated by all. Rob Wagner's por-
traits are uneXcelled on the coast and
rank with the best in the country or
Europe, and We hope he may exhibit
again in Los Angeles.
Two Of Mr.. Donovan's marines were
sold from the Steckel galleries during
the holidays
Among the many interesting paint
ings to be seen at Charles A. Rogers
studio, Chamber Of Commerce build
ing, are two recent ones of local sub
jests-one Gen. Otis outpost, Holly
wood; the other an old adobe near San
Gabriel mission. They are handled with
fine understanding and portray the
local color and atmosphere most admir-
ably. His tones are clear and ringing,
those in a low key being as much so as
the more vivid ones, a quality which
lends great charm to his work. His
studies of Chinatown are full Of rich
color, well drawn and composed, and
gre records that will be of increasing
value with the passing away Of that
locality as it now is, just as with San
Francisco's Chinatown with its Fish
alley" and Church alley" which have
been destroyed forever, but which will
live in the minds Of many through this
and other artists pictures OF that sec
ton. MIR. Rogers was for thirty years
a resident of San Francisco and a
PAINTER of her surrounding landscapes,
characteristic street scenes and pecu-
liar corners, finally sitting among her
ruins, portraying as sad sentinels the
lonely columns of the city hall, which
told a graphic tale. Since being in Los
Angeles he has fully grasped the posi-
bilities offered by our more brilliant
sunlight, and has lost no opportunity to
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through the medium of his brush and
palette.
Elmer and Marion Wachtel will oc-
cupy the Blanchard galleries during the
entire month of March with an exhibit
ton of their paintings, oils and water
colors.
Ralph Fullerton Mocine has estab-
lished himself independently in adver-
tiCJnO art in Cf1TdfOC in the hIliI6incr
at Second and Spring streets. Mr.. Mo-
cine has been for several years identi-
fed with the Read Advertising agency
and his excellent work in this line will
assure his success individually. Much
attention is being given this most prac-
tical branch of art just at present, and
an effort is being made to establish the
correct standard: There should not
be two standards of art. The art of
the advertising pages should be in the
same class from an art point of view
and produced by the same sort of men
who illustrate the body of the book we
find expressed in the current Interna-