The San Francisco call., 1909-06-06
ARTISTS fit TO
VALE AND MOUNTAIN
Desert Their Studios and Yield
to the Lure of Sum-
mer Days
Pencil and Brush Are Busy in
the Many Beautiful Spots
in California
BY LUCY B. JEROME

The summer season is on, and as a
consequence artists are forming their
classes for sketching trips and out
door study, and brush and palette are
busy transferring bits of mountain.
wood or lake to canvas. Schools are
practically closed, last exhibitions of
the studies have been given, clubs
have held their last sessions, and in
the cities the usual summer duHness
in art circles already reigns.
However. the artists and students
nave gone off to the country full of
enthusiasm and capacity for a sum-
mer's work that will doubtless result
In many good things for the fall and
winter exhibitions California is full
of paintable spots, and to the true
artist California is always a joy.
Among the painters who have de-
parted for season is Theodore Wores,
who is at present in Los Angeles, where
he Is holding an exhibition of his work,
comprising Greenbrae and Mount Tam-
aipais scenes, with marked success.
Wores is well known in the southern
city, having resided there for about a
year after the big fire here, and this
is not by any means his first exhibit
in that part Of the state. Nearly all the
pictures shown in the present exhibit
tIon have been seen in San Francisco
and the excellence of both the portrait
and landscape work has been fayorably
commented upon.
Orrin Peck, who mas been in New
York for several weeks, returned the
early part of this month and left inn
mediately for Pleasanton, where he is
or crac crcJ
Hearst family. Those who remember
the delightful example of this artists
work seen at the last Bohemian club
exhibition will not fail to watch for
further work from his brush, his man.
ner of handling his subject and his
superb freedom of rendition being rare
qualities in an age given over to
somewhat loose methods.
One of the good things promised for
the fall will be an exhibition by w E.
Dassonville, whose remarkable work
has brought him prominently before
the art loving public. Dassonville's
studio, an exquisite place, decorated
with the greatest feeling for good
taste, harmony and a sensitive eye Tor
color schemes, will be the gathering
place for about 100 prints, both land
scape and portrait. These prints are
ren0ered on certain Kind of Japanese
paper difficult to procure, but lending
inimitable softness and life to the
subject.
The idea of the artist is to have a
two tone exhibition. The landscape
work will be shown in the studio
proper, where the walls are of a pre-
vailing subdued orange hue, while the
prints will be as nearly as possible on
the same tone. thus making an effect
at once harmonious and poetic. The
same principle will be followed out in
the arrangement of the smaller room
where the walls are or a light French
gray, where the portrait work will be
displayed in the governing gray tone.
Dassonvilles work is conceded to be
of a high order, and this, combined
with admirable taste and feeling, has
made his studio meeting place for
those who like to behold beautiful
things harmoniously arranged. A local
artist visiting the studio remarked on
leaving, after having inspected a num-
Der of the exquisite tones, soft and
brilliant prints, unique in their work
manship: II won't say that your prints
look like drawings, but merely that
I shall endeavor now to get my draw
ings to look as much like prints as
possible
The architectural exhibition held
during the last week by the Sketch
club in its rooms closes today. The