Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11
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artists being represented: Jean Mann
helm. e. A. Rogers, Norman st. Clair,
Granville Redmond, Mrs. S. G. Harris,
Ralph Dawson Miller and Joseph
Greenbaum. Pictures by all Of the
above named are also to be seen in
the Kanst art gallery. A scene on a
canal in Belgium, by Mannheim, is
pleasing in color and is painted in
this artists usual forceful technique
Two delightful landscapes, by Gran
vile Redmond speak to US of the
charming colorlng and beautiful trees
of Monterey, where he has been located
for some months. One Of these, called
Sunshine and Shadow" is particular
ly happy and cheerful in tone; the
other, "Sheep IN the Arroyo is
most restful composition, like an even
ing song, full of poetry and melody.
Joseph Greenbaum is represented by
a landscape, the subject of which was
furnished by a scene near the pigeon
farm, where a red bridge is feature
that suggests d Japanese composition.
Mr.. Greenbaum has handled it very
agreeably. Chinatown subjects, by
Charles A. Rogers, are attractive in
their oriental Colorings and subjects,
and this artist renders these scenes
with much feeling and understanding,
having spent years in studying the old
Chinatown of San Francisco, and since
the disaster has been a familiar face
around Apablasa street and Ferguson
alley, in Chinatown here, whose gay
balconies have been portrayed in these
paintings. Several characteristic wa
ter colors. by Norman st. Clair, hang
in the main gallery, and in the same
jdium are a number of small pic
lures by Mrs. Harris. Ralph Dawson
Miller is now represented in this gal
lery and shows a wood interior in
lower tones than is his wont to paint,
and with a remarkable effect of light
rays penetrating the forest. A South
ern California landscape, with pleasing
distances handled with painstaking
care, is the work of Eugene Frank. A
garden scene, by Theodore Wores,
shows a characteristic bit of the gar
den at Hotel Potter, Santa Barbara,
with the tropical banana amidst a
border of geraniums.
One of the most delightful small pic
lures to be seen there is a well por-
trayed papoose, by Grace Hudson,
whose paintings of Indians have be-
come we'll known, and as interpreta-
tions and expressions of child life are
very charming and rendered with
much skill.
OF special interest is an etching by
Rembrandt, bearing the date 1888,
owned by ]. A. Harvey, fine arts eX-
pert, and being shown at the Kanst
gallery. The subject is THE Descent
from the Cross" in which a number
of figures take their place about the
cross and the Savior's body, most ex-
pressiVe of agony and suffering in its
every line. The vast amount of work
and the exceptional depth in the pic
ture offer an interesting comparison
to etchings of the present day. Mr..
Harvey happened to find this old ex-
ample in Toronto, and several experts
have
an original Rembrandt.
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Carl Oscar Borg is spending a fort
night here, and brought with him a
number of his sketches and paintings
in oil color made during his recent
journeyings in Central America. They
are delight to the eye and salts
faction to the dreamer of romances and
localities, so beautiful are they in color
harmony and so rich in the portrayal
of poetic feeling and aestheticism. So,
also, do they call forth our admiration
by their technical merits, for they are
broadly handled and the blending and
contrasting of ringing color tones, rem
dered with easy grace. Evidently those
places of which the artist speaks to us
through these canvases appealed to and
inspired him beyond anything he has
expressed with his brush. They are
full of spontaneity and the thrill of
the scenes which they portray; they
bring to us vivid impressions Of types.
architecture and brilliant skies of Hon
duras and soft atmosphere of Guate-
mala. with it's splendid ruins that all
silently tell the story of the past, with
their destroyer, Mont Aqua. towering
smilingly above, clothed in soft and
tender greens.
The character of this locality lends
itself most delightfully."- to moonlight,
which phase Mr.. Borg has interpreted
with all the feeling and imagination of
the true poet; "Old Well" La An
tiqua, and Cathedral Garden Hon
duras, are such expressions.
Landscapes with amazing sunlight,
or hazy distances and purple shadows;
pleasant hills and sheltering trees
highways where we meet the Indians
carving burdens of various ponder
BUSINESS, but always running in fash
ion peculiar to them, their movement
admirably caught by the artist; a frag-
ment of some shrine where pictur
esque passerby kneels for blessing
and a prayer; imposing palaces of the
past where power and pride were once
so paramount, forsaken save by the
clinging vines and native children, who
find wondrous trinkets from among the
buried and deserted treasures, which
they value only as toys: the market
place with it's varied colorings and
aracteristic products both of nature
and natives; the village street, quaint
and quiet, the tiled or thatched roofs,
the glazeless windows, the proverbial
and insistent beggar uttering curses
when denied: all these we seem to see
and feel and know and hear, as we
bide a while with these pictures.
Among those of greatest Importance in
size and subject are: "Ruinas del Pal
acio, Arzobispal, Antigua; "Ruinas de
la Recollection. Antigua; La Cruz
del Milagro, Antigua; "Ruinas de
Crista," "Ruina de Santa Isabel
"Ruinas de Santa Clara" the latter
having been sold since Mr.. Borg ar
rived.
We may look forward with much in
terest to a public exhibition of these
paintings at a later date. The artist
will spend much time during the sum-
mer sketching on some of the smaller
islands.
Two collectors who have recently re-
turned from the orient, where they
gathered together craft work of the
Chinese, Japanese and East Indian, as
well as from the Philippines and Ha-
waiian islands, are Mildred Norris and
CYNTHIA Van Worst, who Travelled to-
gether through the various cities of
Japan and China, and bartered with
the natives and the shopkeepers for
their treasures, securing many neautl-
full and unusual things, in many IN
stances acquiring the personal adorn-
ment of some artistically clad lndlVld-
ual willing to dispossess himself for
cI1n collection