The San Francisco call., 1910-07-17

! Frank p Liddel, president of the
California Art club, arrived last We'd
nesday from Los Angeles and will spend
some months in and around this city,
devoting most of his time to water
color sketching in Marin and Alameda
counties.
Lidden, while devoting most of his
time to the banking business. is also
very prominent in the world of art and
while staying here he will visit the
various art institutions to gain ideas
and suggestions for the new gallery
to be maintained in Los Angeles by the
Art club. LiddeI's landscape work is
always an attractive addition to the eX-
hibitions in the southern cities, as he
has a strong and pleasing technique,
and ii is to be hoped that before re-
turning south he will let northern Cali
fornia see some of his work by holding
a display in one of the public galleries
of this city
Art circles of this country will be
interested in the news that Sir Casper
Purdon Clarke has sent in his resigna-
ton as curator of the Metropolitan Mu-
scum in New York. Clarke was brought
To New York from South Kensington
museum by J. Pierpont Morgan five
years ago He will be retired on full
salary, amounting to $4,000, for one
year from this month, and thereafter
will receive an annuity of $4,000 in the
capacity of honorary European cores
pondent of the metropolitan Museum Of
Art.
Ralph Stackpole, the talented young
sculptor who is rapidly striding to the
front as one of the foremost artists of
this city, has received so many i'm
portant commissions that his vacation
has been cut short. He has been spend
ing a few weeks at Tassajara springs.
resting UP for his winter work, but
he has been obliged to change his plans
owing to pressure of business. One of
StackpoIe's latest commissions, recently
completed, was the group of Mrs. Max
Sloss and her three attractive children.
Children are always a favorite theme
with him, and he handles them with a
strength and delicacy that is his force.
Theodore Wores is devoting his time
mostly to portrait painting these days
and has Just finished portraits of DIR.
Louis Deane S. NJ. Worthington and
Miss EVELYN Sheldon. He is busy at
present on one of Miss Frances Jolliffe.
All of these are still in his studio
in California street together with any
number of interesting Japanese and
Hawaiian scenes and a few strong Cali
Fascinating of his paintings is ''The
Spirit of the Lotus" a really wonderful
piece of work, dainty, ethereal and full
of a strange, quiet, compelling charm.
II represents field of lotus in full
bloom Pale green and blue compose
the color scheme with the sky and field
warmed with deeper purple glow, the
only darker tone in the whole canvas.
The spirit Of the white flowers is
REPRESENTED by the figure of a beauti-
full woman resting lightly in the midst
of the field of bloom. Her figure is seen
through a misty, vaporish silver gray
light. iridescent and sparkling in ef
feet. The whole picture beneath the
golden sunlight glow is wonderfully
odd and unique, with a something
deeper shown which wins it a first
place among the many efforts from the
brush of Wores-
Mrs. Rose Hooper Plotner has re-
turned from Honolulu, where she has
spent some months at her miniature
work. and is at present established
for few weeks at her country home
at Mayfield. In two months she will
return and reopen her studio in this
city, as she has number of miniature
commissions awaiting her.