The San Francisco call., 1910-02-06
I'm GIh@ ART World
gv MARGARET MARSHALL DOYLE

t\VFHILE the date for Mrs. Grace
NJ Hudsons exhibition, scheduled TO
be an event in art circles OF the
early spring, has not yet been an
nounced, about 16 of her late canvases
have already been sent down from her
Ul<iah studio and are on view this week
at Shoussler Brothers in Sutter street
Her style, particularly in her Indian
studies, which have proved her favorite
medium Of work is we'll known In San
Francisco. her 4Indian Madonna and
Child" and her Little Hunter" having
been displayed here before. The other
canvases are new, however, and are
particularly fascinating, especially III
the tones in which she deals with child
, life among the Indians of the reserVa-
tion near her home. One of the best
of these is a little wondering wide eyed
papoose, strapped in it's basket, and
left for the moment. charming spot
| a gainst the dark green bank of the
roadside. The sober solemn little Wis
ge with its tawny colcring is looking
out on life from behind its bright blue
!
and pink blankets with a world of baby
questioning in its bright eyed gaze. 1t
is a very charming picture and decid-
edly one Of the most attractive in the
group.
Another splendid sample of her style
is brown, naked baby rolling and
basking in great content in the high
ierI, hat
touches the landscape with golden
light and brings into play the richer
tones of the oYerhanging blackberry
and elderberry vines that form back
ground. An alert black and white dog
has mounted guard alongside of the re-
oumbent form, and is not the least
charming part of thoroughly charm
ing picture.
Then there is a good study of half
grown Indian maiden in an i'll made
dress of striped red and yellow calico,
who has posed for second against
field of high green grain, and, grasp
ing tightly to her sides two struggling
cats, is having her picture taken. The
messy hair hanging in black streaks
against her eager little face and tho
general pose of the 1.-THE body, care
| less and lightly poised. are particularly
well handled. Next to it hangs little
barefooted maid in red, with her doll
of home manufacture in her hand, who
has been arrested for a second in her
| flight across a field of daisies. Besides
these there are several heads on view,
characteristic studies of the tribe, with
the bright, alert, half smiling, wholly
quizzical expression. back of the some
what stoical questioning in the dark
eyes
Only one large canvas is shown in
the numbeF 1t represents couple of
Indians seated on a fur mat before the
golden embers OF a dying campfire.
The old man in the painting, with his
wrinkled face, his hair and beard tinged
with white. and the careless droop of
the body in its garment of fur, is we'll
drawn, the traces of time being par
ticuIarly we'll brought out, in contrast
to the vigorous youth and ronndness OF
the squaw squatting at his side. She is
regarding Win eVident SdllsidCtion her
just finished piece of basket ware. As
a study of the people and the life the
work is splendid, but it lacks the ap
peal Of some of her smaller canyases.
1t is in these, and especially in her
sketches of children and of child life,
that we see Grace Hudson at her truest
and best.
Word comes from Los Angeles that
the $4,000 painting of Lucky" Bald
win, which was ordered by the late
millionaire on his deathbed has just
been completed and is on view in the
artists studio in the southern city.
! III. H Cross. whose studies and sketches
of life on the plains have made him so
| famous throughout the United States, is
| the artist who undertook the commits
| sion, and his canvas, 6 feet by 3, has
been the work of many months Those
who have seen it pronounce it1excel-
| lent.
The picture represents herd of buff
! falo in mad stampede. with Lucky
Baldwin holding to the long hair of
/ the leading buffalo and so being car
rled to safety. He Erasped the ami
malls hair 1t bore down upon him.
and the escape. with all the thrilling.
intense action OF the moment. the artist
has wonderfully caught and depicted.