The San Francisco call., 1909-12-12


carried out viii appeal to grownups
as well as to the younger generation.
Copies of this work have been on
view at the SeqUoia club exhibition and
they may also be seen at the artists
studio in Hayes street and at one or
two of the book stores
The Walters collection of European
paintings has been put on public view
at the San Francisco Institute of Art.
The exhibition opened Thursday night
with private view to club members
and invited guests. and was thrown
open to the public Friday morning.
This is a splendid group of foreign
paintings, numbering more than 400.
and will be displayed for the present
in the main hall of the institute pend
ing the building of private hall for
their special accommodation.
In bequeathing this valuable gift to
the city of San Francisco the late
Emmanuel Walter also left the sum of
$4,000 for their special care and an
other $4,000 to be spent for the salary
of his nephew. who is an artist and
who is intrusted with their supervision.
The Walter collection consists OF
originals of many famous European ar
lists. They were collected by him
on his travels through European coun-
tries. They are in oils. watercolors.
worries. charcoal studies. pastels and
crayons and included in the bequest are
some fine pieces of sculpture.
There are twenty-six canvases hung
in the exhibition of the recent work
last Tuesday at the HeIgesen galleries
in Fillmore street. This is the first
private view Del Niue has held in this
city. and his work is shown to much
better advantage than in any of the
public views in which of late it has
been displayed.
Some one has complained that Del
Mue's paintings are cold in treatment;
this can not be said of any of those
on view now. They are for the most
part rich and warm in coIoring and
show keen appreciation on the part
of the artist of the moods of nature.
He has studied nature faithfully and
as faithfully depicted it. for it is in
his landscapes and his marine views
that he is seen at his best
His Winter Evening" is in a very
dark key, dreary. desolate and some
what somber, but painted with
beauty that appeals. There are dis
tant purple hills. cold as if swept by
recent rains. There are trees. half
stripped and wind tossed. to the side.
The sky is touched kith purple clouds,
and over the lonely. gloomy landscape
the early winter twilight is settling
like pail. The whole suggests a win
try setting, cold and dismal as a coun-
try winter often is. and yet through
IT all is one impressed with the real
underlying beauty of the scene. and
from the home in the center of the
canvas shines out one ray of rich
warm home light that is the perfect
finishing touch to the scene. 1t gives
suggestion of light. warmth and
fireside in contrast to the dreary out
of door aspect
Early Morning shows rosy pink
and lavender clouds sweeping away
before the rising sun. There is a soft
radiance in the sky of early dawn. The
east is suffused with a growing. golden
glow. while the foreground is stnl in
the half gray light preceding the
dawn, with the long shadows of early
morning particularly well handled.
Between Showers" and Dying
Day are contrasts. Both are marine
views the former in tones of gray.
The threatening sky overhangs long
stretches of a leaden sea The second
scene is in vivid sunset tints. Purple.
orange, red. lavender-every color. in
fact. is caught in the heecy clouds
around the setting sun, which reflects
a long shaft of golden light in the
gray-blue ocean
Spring in grass, flowers. blue clouded
sky, and the breeze bowed trees
gives Spring Morning it's name. The
picture sparkles in the sunshine be-
tween the showers
This view began last Tuesday and
will close Monday. December 20.