Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
Art Notes
BY Elizabeth waggOner

In an article on 1.-THE Art and Artists
of the Great Southwest" the third of
a series appearing in the Fine Arts
Journal Everett Maxwell pays glow
ing tribute to the art of the Wachtels,
who form the subject of this chapter
of the series. He speaks of Marion
Kavanaugh Wachtel and Elmer Wach-
tel as those welded painters who for
a score of years have interpreted the
southwest in paint as 1t has never yet
been portrayed" and says; These
two, the former working in pure
aquarelle as purlne as light ITSELF
the latter in oils as limpid and lumin-
Gus as the vibrating atmosphere of the
land he paints, are worthy to become
the opponents of this new school which
must one day compel the art loving
world to pause and give heed to its
mute appeal. No modern painters will
be so readily appreciated or welcomed
by the unspoiled who delight in pure
romance and still live in the halcyon
days of Sir Galahad and the Golden
Fleece Both present their subjects
through a focus of love and reverence
which concentrates the sentiment OF
nature as a sun glass centers the rays
of light. 1t appeals to the imagination
and conveys a feeling too subtle for
the superficial mind to comprehend y
Mr.. and Mrs. Wachtel returned to
the city for a few days after a So
journ at Taos and are again off on a
summer sketching tour.
Reference to Taos recalls the recent
death of q prominent member of the
little colony of painters who make their
headquarters there. Frank p. Sarwein.
AS Il painter of the Indians and their
desert land he had become widely
known and was frequently represented
in the exhibitions of Southern cali
fornia. The Corn Song" will be es-
pecially remembered as one of his fin
est canvases.
Franz Bischoff is at Laguna Beach
| for an extended outing, which he VIII
devote to marine painting-the branch
| of art in which he has scored such
notable success in the past year.
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The annual exhibition of the School
of Art and Design will be held Mon
! day evening and Tuesday afternoon,
! June 20 and 21 The exhibition of Mon
| day evening will be in the nature of a
reception for the students and their
friends.
The class just graduated from the
! College of Fine Arts, U. S. c., leaves
! as a memorial in the grounds of the
| college a beautiful sun dial, the stan
| dard of cement and the dial executed
in metal, the work of the students OF
| the class under the direction of Fred
| A. Zimmerman, who designed the
| whole.
OF the many school exhibitions of the
| mast few weeks, those of the art de-
| partments in the various schools OF
! Pasadena have proved of exceptional
| interest. The public schools of that
! city united in securing for exhibition
! purposes a building centrally located
| in Raymond avenue and gathered there
| the art work of all the schools, from
| the lowest grades to high school, the
| showing thus made was most credit
| able one, and this mode of eXhlbltlon
! seems an excellent one for giving the
public an opportunity to judge of the
general trend of art education IN the
| public schools. -.
The exhibitions at Throop polytech-
| mic institute are always of interest
| from an educational as we'll as artistic
| standpoint The work of the art de-
| partment under Miss Margaret Donald
| son is of the highest order. The work
| in composition is strong and especially
! noteworthy are the landscape COMPOSE
| tions in charcoal. The still-life studies
| in water color and colored chalks are
|
! sketches, in which the picturesque
| building of the art department is in
/ troduced and interior sketches in the
/ same medium indicate that the study
| of irrespective has been made most
| interesting one.
Throop elementary school also made
a fine showing, the exhibition room
! being unusually attractive, and wlth
| the many pieces of handmade furni-
! ture and pendant lights made by the
nupils of the manual training depart
| ment under Douglas Donaldson, the ar
rangement was a most effective one.
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The exhibition of the art work al
| the Harvard school, held Friday after
noon. was a most creditab1e one. The
work included charcoal, pen and INK
water color and pastel, as we'll as some
good clay modelling, all showing the
| foundation of sound artistic training
/ Miss Jessie Downey Jones, in charge
of the art department of this school
has been most successful in obtaining
earnest work from her students Al
the close of the school year she VIII
go to Chicago to take up some espe-
| cial work at the Art institute during
/ the summer months.