The San Francisco call., 1910-09-04
I'm Gohe Art World
By Margaret Marshall Doyle

Word has come from Europe of the
1attering success of young Armin C.
Hansen of this city, son of the famous
painter of that name Among the 5000
paintings recently submitted from all
parts of Europe for the famous annual
Brussels art exhibition his marine
study, entitled Low Tide" was one of
the 500 accepted and was hung in
very prominent place. 1t has received
highest art critics of Belgium as show
ing great promise for the future along
line of his own as unique as that of
his ilIustrious father
Low Tide is a canvas nearly FIVE
feet square. showing a number of
weatherbeaten fishing boats drawn up
on the shore, with the water receding
from the warm. moist sand. The whole
is worked up in a minor key, soft and
rich in color and low in tone, blended
to harmonious whole beneath a sky
golden in tint from the beauty of the
late afternoon light.
Since he left for Europe four years
among Germany. Holland and Bel gum,
studying in all three countries. 1t is in
Belgium that he is at present located.
his studio being at Nieuport, a few
miles out of Ostend, where for the last
year and a half he has been estab-
lished in colony of congenial artist
spirits like his own. 1t is at Nieuport
that he has turned out his best land
scapes and marines of the North sea
and the shore line of the countries he
has visited the fisher folk of the coast
appealing particularly to his genius.
In fact, the fisher and peasant life is
practically the work he has decided
upon for his life career, and only a
lover of human nature could depict, as
he does so intimately. the side of the
life that will appeal, with its simple
pleasures its pathos and its all pervad-
ing breath of home life and home love,
that always touches special chord of
its own. In this he is unlike his father.
whose scenes of the desert and the
plain are for the most part full of stir
ring vigor and vital action, intense
with the raw frontier life they depict.
Hansen has also had paintings ac-
cepted by the Munich academy, where
his energy of style and hneness of
color have won him special mention from
the critical art jury.-and later on, be-
fore returning home. he viii submit a
painting to the Paris salon. Even
tually, however, he will return to Cali
fornia and open a studio of his own in
this city.
Charles f. Sabolet, who has begun
what promises to be most Successful
city, left last night for Paris to con-
tinue his art studies. A farewell din
ner was given him by A. w. Best. a
number of his former fellow pupils and
two or three other artists, so in all be-
ing present to give him a fitting send
off. w. r. Davenport was toastma ster
on the occasion. W. Keith and others
responding. as we'll as Sabolet.
Nearly all of the artists of the local
colony who have been away on sketch
ing or teaching trips for the summer
have returned to this city, and the fall
season promises to be a most active
one In art circles. Severaf important
exhibitions are being planned in the art
galleries and the private studios From
southern California we shall have a
chance of seeing some of the work of
Ferdinand Lungren. whose desert
scenes and studies of the Hopi Indians
have made him famous; OF Franz Bish-
off, who recently returned from Cata-
lima and Topanga, and OF Benjamin c.
Brown, John Gamble and Hanson Put
hoff.
A. W. Best recently returned from a
summer sketching trip to Cazadero
and has 80 or more interesting sketches
to show, as the result of his summer
work, at his studio in Bush street.
Mrs. Alice Best will also hold a small
exhibition of her water color studies
there, although she has definitely de-
cided to establish herself at Carmel.