The San Francisco call., 1909-12-05

HouF- Ihls Is the only work on view
by ]. Willard.
Lucia X. Matthews has two flower
studies and Arthur F. Matthews is rep
resented by a landscape and small
figure painting entitled "A Ghost
Story
Evelyn Mccormick has only one can
vas displayed. 1t is called Houses
Djerny, France. 1t is rendered with
consummate skill in very pleasina,
tones of gray and light. fresh green.
Some of the works on view are by
artists whose names are not so well
known as yet in our local colony. They
give great promise. the samples dis
played showing what we are to expecr
from their hand. and as each newcomers
into the field has an individuality OF
style. each exhibition proves more in
teresting than the last That at the
Sketch club win last for another week.
closing Saturday. December IL.
The Sequoia club has what is known
as the little picture" exhibition. be-
cause most of the pictures are under
$50 in price.
Recently. in a lecture to English
artists, Lewis Kinds. in remarking ON
exhibitions, said:
He who paints large canvas nova
days is a bold man. or a man in easv
circumstances. for the walls of an orat-
nary house are not designed for tho
reception of six foot canvases. however
fine the painting NAV he
And this has proved true in the So
quota club display Where larger and
more ambitious pictures might have
been admired and passed by these
smaller and modestiy priced pasteIs.
oils and water eolors have been eagerly
sought. number having been mr.
chased on the opening day.
E, N Seawell and w. E. Dassonvi1a.
by their clever Photographic displays.
give change of tone to the exhibit,
which consists of so or 90 small views.
exquisitely handled by our foremost
artists.
From her studio in Berkeley Eva st.
John. Smitten has sent some really re-
markable little oils. In Autumn
Haze" being wonderfully true and
beautiful in its soft. yellow tones. Her
Moonlight" is in pleasing contrast.
showing a wooded hillside scene in
rich shades of dark green, bathed in a.
hoOd or silver moonlight
Evelyn WithrOw has two studies dis
prayed IN the delightful iridescent ef-
feets that has so characterized be.
later pieces
Fercy cray is represented by four or
nve OF his exquisite water colors. and
Myrtle Young by three or four soo5
pasteis' the best of which is termed
Evening Glow"
Japanese landscapes on view. and win
sparks clever oils. in their rich. dark
tones, nave been greatly admired His
summer is perhaps the best of those
hung in this view.
fhe exhibition will also continue
through this week. December IN also
being named as the closing day.
An interesting series of lectures will
be given under the direction Of the Arts
and Cras.= during the winter months
on various subjects of interest to arr
lsts ana art lovers The first of these
was given last evening at the studio
Of the Misses Holden and Miss Blancbe
cummings In Sacramento street. pro-
Iessor julien delivering the address on
book binding This series of lectures
viii be open to the public as wen as to
the artist colony, and the meetings
VIII be held once or twice a month az
the different large studios
OF great interest to San Franciscans
VIII be the news that the collection 81
water eolors by Goddard Gale. which
won the Grand Prix in the Seattle
Alaskan-Yukon exposition. win be on
view In this city for few days this
week. They may be seen at Rabsobn
4 Moreom's galleries in Post street
the exhibition TO open tomorrow after
noon and TO continue only for two or
three days after which they may be
seen at the artists studio in East
twenty ninth street. Oakland.
As these are the paintings that wera
awarded the highest honors over ths
foreign and other exhibitions Of wafar
color studies the view is more tba-
worth seeing, especially as they are
me work Of local painter and have
helped TO place California where she
rightly hclongs--in the front yanls y,
The art colonies of the world.