The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22

One of the principal works of sculp-
ture now being wrought in this city is
the massive and beautiful decoration
intended for the establishment of the
entrance gate presented by Mrs. Jane
Sather to the University of California,
to be placed at the southern end of the
campus at the intersection OF Telegraph
avenue and Bancroft way, Berkeley.
The gate which Is nearly 100 feet wide,
win be wrought in marble, granite and
bronze. and while simple in design is
t of great elegance and of classic aspect.
John Galen Howard is the architect,
iwhile Earl Cummings has accepted the
working out OF the sculptural designs.
-Four large vases of Italian marble,
each six feet high. standing on pedes-
| tails three and a half feet in height. will
bear different friezes representing
| childhood, youth. men and philosophers.
! The first vase to be completed will bear
circle of children intertwined amid
a garland of fowers; the second a
group of students engaged in athletic
sports, while designs for the remaining s
/ two have not yet been decided on.
Eight paneIs-for female figures repre-
senting agriculture, art, electricity and
architecture. with four male figures
! picturing law, letters, medicine and
mining. also carved in Italian marble
will occupy appropriate positions in the
iarch. These figures while conceived
with the utmost simplicity. are noble
and graceful in outline and dignified
and chaste in execution. 1t is probable
/! that there is nothing in the west to
compare with this entrance gate. at
once simple and beautiful, classic and
/ severe. The cost of the structure is es-
.timated at $4,000.
I Cummings has also completed two
/ tablets commemorative of Senator
| George Hearst, which will be placed in
the mining building in the university
/ grounds. One tablet shows a bas-relief
/ nortrait of the senator, while the other
| is lettered with an inscription begin
/ ming. This building stands. as a me-
mortal to George Hearst, a plain, honest
man and good miner" Both tablets
are about feet by 3 and Will be cast
in bronze.
/ Theodore Wores has some new and
interesting bits in his studio. the ideas
I for which were gained from his usual
4 summer sojourn. in Greenbrae. The
most important of these is scene de-
picting an old oak, The Patriarch of
| the Woods" which occupies the greater
part of the foreground, while in the
distance is a glimpse of a blue lagoon
1 with Famalpais in darkest hues of pur-
lple towering above all. The oak is
/ firmly rooted and the feeling Of sub
/ stantiality and strength well carried
out
Another scene shows the Drexel
house in the ocean boulevard. The
yellow lupin was in bloom at the time
/ this picture was sketched and the
4 flowers are royally painted-great
stretches of yellow in the most vivid
coloring Imaginable.
Several Japanese paintings, notably
one OF a street in Ikao at the foot of g
4 line of pale green mountains, have beer
resurrected by Wores, and are charm
/ ing in their pictorial aspects
/ Eugen Neuhaus has resigned his po-
sition on the staff OF the Art institute
and his class has been consolidated with
that of John Stanton. Neuhaus has
I however, opened private classes for in
struction and appears to be as busy as
/ ever It is his intention to hold an ex-
hibition of his many paintings at the
new quarters of Vickery, Atkins &
4 Torrey some time in February. in the
meantime he will soon have number
! Of paintings on view at the Sequoia
! club rooms in the Mercedes building
which fact Will be appreciated by his
many friends, who are anxious to sec
n collective exhibition of his works
where they may be hung to advantage
Ferdinand Burgdorff has on exhibit
3tion at Sehusslers six most fairylikc
1 and charming small paintings. three
water colors and three oils. The oils
ali represent Carmel scenes, though the
artist has handled them in manner