The San Francisco call., 1910-02-27

All the glory of the Hawaiian islands
the golden sunsets. the purple dis
tances, the mist crowned mountains
and the luminous cloud effects peculiar
to the southern atmosphere have been
depicted in the pictures of the island
of kauai, some eight or ten in num-
ber, displayed this week at Schussler
Brothers in Sutter street. The pictures
are the work of Otto Wix. the land
scape artist who has made his home in
the islands for the last 10 years and
whose exquisite water color scenes of
his adopted country have found pur-
ehasers all over the United States.
One of the best and strongest on
view is large painting of the Ole
Kele canyon, a narrow strip of valley
tucked in between two ranges Of high,
rocky hills that stretch away until
the low drifting clouds obscure their
far off peaks in a veil of yellow mist.
The beautiful effect of light and sun is
brought out in sky and mountain and
in the silver river that runs through
the scantily wooded valley.
Two of Wix's coast scenes, also on
display, are even more beautiful the
subjects chosen. with their wonderful
play of color, being even more appeal
ing to the great majority than his
inland sketches The skies in the
Islands are forever clouding and clear
ing, bringing out strong high lights
against almost black shadows while
| the pearl colored haze of the atmos-
phere softens into strange beauties the
prismatic colors of the landscape and
the rugged outline of hills and cliffs.
In these two kauai coast scenes
this effect is shown. In one the black
hill touched by a threatening purple
cloud, the gold and blue in the sky
where the clouds have cleared a little
and the ocean with it's warmth of green
and blue and yellow are all blended to-
gether in a soft haze that blurs the
entire painting into a wonderfully soft
harmony. The second of Wixs larger
coast scenes brings out the softness of
the fog that touches with silver gray
the distant cliffs AMI the blue horizon
line.
All of Wix's work is done in water
colors and is faithful depletion Of
the islands and therefore of more than
scenery.
Word comes from Europe of the de-
| lightful trip that John NJ. Gamble and
| Willis f. Davis have been ejoying since
they left Egypt. Their course Of travel
| included a short side trip to Algeria,
and they have since journeyed by easy
stages through Spain and Italy. taking
innumerabIe sketches of places and
people en- route.
They are now domiciled in Nice.
where they expect to spend the COM
ing two months. and their trip is
| scheduled to include leisurely journey
through Russia, Denmark, Germany,
France and the British isles. so that it
will be nearly the end of the year be-
fore they are once more homeward
bound.
Another artist who has been spend
ing some time on the other side is
Miss Mildred Holden. She left Eng
| land for home last Wednesday, sailing
from Liverpool for New York. After
| a short visit to her sister, Mrs. Marian
Holden Pope, in Los Angeles she will
return to San Francisco and recon-
mence her work and her classes in
wood carving at the studio she shares
with her sister, Miss Octavia Holden,
and Miss Blanche Cummings, in Sac
ramento street.
The California art club. recently es-
tablished in Los Angeles. including in
its membership many of the most
prominent artists of both northern and
southern California, has adopted it's
constitution and by laws and arranged
for the regular jury TO pass on the
pictures submitted for the various ex-
hibitions planned under its auspices.
The first exhibition is to be held in
Los Angeles next week From there
ii will be sent to Pasadena, TO Long
Beach and then TO this city. where IL
will be displayed at one of the local
galleries.
A circuit system will also be estab-
lished, by which the work will be sent
as far east as Chicago Lidden is
president of the association, and he
recently appointed Wendt. Wagner.
Bischoff, Carl Oscar Borg and Austin
as members of the exhibition commit
tee.
The late canvases of Ferdinand
Burgdorff, some 20 or so in number,
will be put on exhibition in the Wick
cry, Atkins G. Torrey galleries in SUIT
ter street, Tuesday. March 2. Among
the most interesting OF the pictures
to be displayed is the series of desert
scenes in oils-the Painted Desert,
asst is called, as the whole gamut of