The San Francisco call., 1910-12-04
Prominent Artist Will Not Hold Public Exhibition
OF His Wonderful Canvases This Winter
By MARGARET MARSHALL DOYLE

While he will hold no big public ex-
hibition this winter, G. Cadenasso has
some wonderful canvases in his stu
dio that it is too bad the world at
large is not permitted to see, for they
are typical of our California nature,
the great brown rolling hills, golden
in the sunshine in California is it was.
or skirted with eucalyptus trees. soft
ening the outline. in California as it
has grown to be under the hand of
man. These two phases of the country
side, in sun and in shadow, have proved
the inspiring themes for many of the
artists finest canvases, the result of
his summer and autumn of sketchfng
in the counties across the bay, and as
they are faithful depictions of favored
spots of nature. they are weH worth
seeing and studying
What Cadenasso himself considers
his masterpiece, a large canvas called
Eucalyptus Near Pool" is hung
among the group of paintings in the
new Bohemian club building in Post
street. 1t is an evening scene at Leona
painted in the dark, rich tones that
characterize the artists work, but
beautiful as it is, and pulsatins with
the warm glow of the sunset hour. it
can not in any way surpass Summer
in the Berkeley Hills" one of the
most masterly pieces of painting ever
seen from his brush
Cadenasso in speaking of this won
derful picture calls 1t "The Blue and
ha ie -
is-a glorified golden sunset beneath
a beautiful deep blue sky, with the
rolling golden hills of California.
touched with russet in the shadows
and dotted with scrub oaks, forming
the entire theme of the large canvas
The picture must be seen to be appre-
ciated. While many artists would see
the beauty In the bare brown hills
few would find in them alone inspira-
tion for a painting, and vet it is not
this difference itself which will make
the scene appeal, but its faithfuIness
to nature, it's breadth and its majesty
will speak for themselves. The deep,
dark almost blue black shadows of the
thickly wooded ravine in the hollow
of the hills and the grayness of on
coming twilight in the foreground
only throw into greater relief the
glory of the blue and the gold. the
whole forming not only a striking
scene but one that long will linger in
the memory as true to the beauties of
the hills we have seen thousand
times.
This is the largest canvas in the
studio, and is hung with 40 or so
sketches from around Lake Leona and
throughout Alameda and Marin coun-
ties. Four or five of these were pur-
chased this week by Mrs. H. H. Hart
of Berkeley as prizes for a bridge
party she will give shortly, among
them a beautiful little painting of
Mount Tamalpais, rising from behind
a bank of low hanging silver fog.
Cadenasso may send one of his large
canvases to the spring exhibition in
Rome. to which all of the prominent
American artists have been asked to
contribute. 1t would seem a pity, how
ever, to send his Summer in the
Berkeley Hills" as a scene so truly
and typically Californian should GER
tainly find a resting place in this
state.
The most important exhibition of the
week will be that of the California
Keramic Art club. which will take
place Friday and Saturday afternoons
in the concert room of the Palace
hotel. This will be the twentieth an
nual display of the club and will in
c1ude a number of interesting fea-
lures, to which all of the members
will contribute, as well as the separate