Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-06-06
RECEPTION AND
ART EXHIBITION
Tomorrow and Wednesday
in Historic Reception Room
of Old Palace
PAINTINGS or ". {. ROLLINS
Public Invited to View Notable
Canvasses of Celebrated
Artist.

Artists and lovers of the beautiful
viii have an exceptional opportunity
to enjoy a choice collection of paint
ings on southwestern subjects during
the next few days. w. E. Rollins, the
celebrated delineator and colorist of
Indian life. will exhibit some of his
southwestern canvasses at the his
toric reception room of the old Palace
beginning tomorrow. Tuesday, June I,
and continuing for two days. closing
Wednesday, June s. The exhibition
will be under the auspices of the la
dies board Of the School OF American
Archaeology and the affair promises to
be of unusual brilIiance. There will
be three visiting sessions daily. dur
ing which the paintings will be open
to the public, from 10 to II mornings,
from TO in the afternoon and
from to 10 eVenir Light re-
freshments will be served during the
afternoon and evening hours each
day and the exhibition will be in the
nature of reception to which all are
cordially invited. Mrs. Nathan Jaffa
will preside Tuesday afternoon and
evening assisted by the following pa
trOnesses: Mrs. James l.. Seligman,
Mrs Paul A. F. Walter, Mrs. Sylvanus
G. Morley, Mrs Francis C. Wilson,
Mrs. ]. E. Wood, Mrs. R. ]. Palen,
Mrs. A. NJ. Bergere and Mrs. B NJ.
Thomas. Wednesday afternoon and
evening, Mrs. R. j. Palen will preside
assisted by the following patronesses:
Mrs. Nathan Jaffa, Mrs. Arthur Selg-
man, Miss Massie, Mrs l.. A. Hughes,
Mrs. Jacob Weltmer, Mrs. Hamilton
Rapp and Mrs John r. McFie.
Mr., Rollins, the artist from whose
clever brush come the canvaSseS
which are to be exhibited. is a Cali
fornian and for some years devoted
himself to marine subjects in the pOr-
trayal of which he is acknowledged to
be without equal in his own state. His
pictures have hung in art exhibitions
in Boston, New York, Washington,
Denver, Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco and everywhere they have met
with favorable mention and well mer-
tied reception
1t was a commission from the Lew
is and Clark exposition which first
turned Mr.. Rollins attention to Indian
life as a subject for his canvasses,
and he at once sought out for his
models. Indians who still follow their
primitive customs and methods of
life. Unlike many artists who only
paint from the outside and gather
their impressions from the windows of
a Pullman car, Mr.. Rollins has lived
right among the Indians not for weeks
only but for several years, and has
gathered and reflected in his paintings
a faithful picture of their life
Perhaps Mr.. Rollins masterpiece is
his painting of the Grand Canon of
Arizona, now owned by President Rip
ley of the Santa Fe road. One of the
chief attractions of the coming exhibit
will be the original study from which
the Ripley picture was made.
Other canvasses of note will be
San Gabriel Mission, The Old
Church at Taos" THE Old Model,
and number of studies made recent
ly at the pueblo of Laguna.
Mr.. Rollins accompanied by Mrs.
Rollins, who is herself a writer and
student of Indian life, will spend the
summer at Taos, but will remain in
the city until after the close Of the
coming exhibition.