The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Sculptor at Work on
Gate for University
Earl Cummings Chises Vases and Panels for
Costly Gift Designed for Mrs. Sather
By LUCY B. JEROME

entirely unlike any ever seen before.
The one picturing Carmel bay on
starlight night-a gray wash over the
entire canvas. but with the indeter-
inmate and tender hues so cleverly, SO
exquisitely and Understandings blend
ed as almost to make the subject
symphonic fairy tale in gray-is one
I of the most charming things seen in
long while. The evening star trembles
above a silent, gray sea, inself in
mist of softest gray, while one or two
delicately poised blue stars shine
family through the observation. Moth
ing but wash of gray-and yet what
meaning, what tenderness, what quail
ity of the exquisite starlight night is
and perception in this canvas and it is
attracting wide attention.
The two other oils-one showing Car
mel water by day, the other by night,
are on the same order, save that the
waters and land are more distinctly
defined. and the sea beach OF swirling
sand remarkably we'll painted. This
faculty of placing suggestions on can
vas with apparently a single color or
two is most pleasing and distinctly
original in its results. While Burg
dorff's work may truly be called fan
tastic, 1T yet bears the imprint of
mind which sees exquisitely, feels un-
derstandingly and executes boldly.
There is a future for the artist II he
continues to grow along the right lines.
The three water colors have been seen
before, but will be remembered by all
who saw them at the last Bohemian
club exhibition. where they were first
placed on view.
The Walters collection of European
paintings. about which there, has been
so much controversy, has been recently
adjudged to belong to the Art insti-
tute. This Is the latest decision and it
is to be hoped that the case will not be
reopened again.
"A paragraph in the New York Times
| gives such unmitigated praise to a
! work of the California painter. Emil
Carlsen. that it is reproduced here for
the benefit of those who may not have
seen it:
Emil Carlsen's magnificent Moonlight on
hattegat' not Anly gives the facts Of nature
Raphaelite dreamed of-but its subject is pow
! erfuly impressive. The clouds permeated with
| the heavy moisture OF the ocean are gathered in
! ferns that suggest Shakespeare's cloud capped
| towers and gorgeous palaces: the white orb of
the moon and the pale blue of the gently tapping
| water flooded with light produce magical effect
| and convey the impression of vast soiitudes and
distances. of tremendous natural forces and ele
mental energies. There is none Of the darkness
of night. yet all of its mystery and majesty as
! the ocean reveals it.
Frederic Junior. the well known art
/ collector. who has been making his
| headquarters at Santa Barbara for
some time. will leave in a fortnight for
Chicago, where he will open an exhibit
tion of paintings by William Keith
Thad Welch. H. w. Hansen, Henry
Raschen, Gordon Coutts and some other
artists of note. Juniors last exhibitions
in Chicago and Milwaukee were highly
successful and he was asked to come
again. Eastern buyers who formerly
bought largely abroad are now very
much interested in the work of the CAL
done by Junior is bearing substantial
fruit.
II. w. Hansen and family will leave
next month for Europe. where Hansen's
son has been studying for the last four
years. According to the things written
by the critics about the younger Han
sen he has developed into a painter of
prominence.
II. w. Hansen is undoubtedly one of
the most famous painters of horses and
Indian life on the desert. A great many
of his paintings have sold abroad, one
| of them going to Count Ooshkoff of
Moscow This nobleman has invited
Hansen TO come to Russia for the pur-
pose of painting a Cossack picture for
him.
/ Hansen's most recent canvas, show
piece of the first rank, called After the
Roundup" Will be among the paintings
shown in Chicago by Junior