The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13

THE San Francisco Institute of Art
has been turned into delightful
bit of Holland for a week or two,
the picturesque Dutch scenes of Joseph
Raphael, sketched and painted during
his many years stay in Laren and
other towns of The Netherlands. hav-
ing been put on display last Tuesday
There are 100 or more pictures in
all in this view, showing the life of the
Dutch people indoors and out. in a
thousand little intimate ways that
win their own appeal There are
studies of children at play and at
work, bound for school or playing at
their mothers knee; there are tender
home scenes that are beautiful for
their very nominees. and oil studies of
the streets, with their busy life. of the
coffee hour and of the twilight that are
excellent. especially for the character
studies they show and their types of
village life
Raphael has only a few landscap pes
on view. but they lend variety to the
exhibition and show him along a new
! line that is no less pleasing than his
figure drawings. Among the best of
his smaller scenes is his Village Kir-
mess bright with color. life and the
excited action of the moment along the
streets bordering the town square.
.
are deliciously comical, Sunday Morn
ing" in the artists studio in Laren
being one of the best. The Exodus" is
a humorous sketch of the fitting dur
ing the conhagration of 1906.
The strongest and decidedly the best
Of the works on view is entitled The
Burgomaster, Captain w. n. Van Der
Brock, Entertains His Friends" This
was exhibited a year or two ago in the
Paris lafo in
Chicago and Philadelphia, receiving in
all of the cities the most favora Bile
praise that could be bestowed. IT is
one of the most striking paintings ever
displayed in this city, grouping, posing
and finish being perfect-the figures
true 10 life. even to the alert dog in
the background and the insinuating
cat luXuriously rubbing itself against
the skirt of the rosy checked little
maid in the foreground
There is every range of expression
depicted on the faces. The types of
the men are in pleasing contrast to the
rosy. bright eyed village maidens, with
| their fiaXen tresses and their baskets
laden with red checked apples
Bohemian and Peasant Girls" was
also exhibited at the salon. 1t is a
huge canvas, with life size figures
dancing across its surface in prettily
hued dresses. the peasant maids in the
foreground forming a picture of charm
ing rural simplicity against the more
worldly wise folk near the open door
way.
Rita. 2 painting of a Dutch maid
in the costume of her country. is one
of the most interesting on view, and
'On the Confirming of Yoncey" is a
pleasing scene of the home life on a
feast day in their lives.
Many of the oils displayed are por-
trait work. not the least good of which
is the artists painting of himself The
view viii continue until Tuesday Feb
ruary p.
An interesting exhibition that opened
Thursday at the Drummer Bach gallery
in Kearny street is the striking photo
graphic display of Herman s. Hoyts
work dating over the last four years
and ranging all the way across the con-
tinent from San Francisco to New
York Many of the pictures We're hung
last winter in the New York salon.
where they were awarded high praise
by critics.
The view includes in all 30 or 40
studies. beautifully finished and mount
ed. and worked out in rich tones of
gray, sepia and deep brown.
The subjects chosen are of great
interest, some for their local color
others for the scenes they represent
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ting and for the beauty of the land
scape. Perhaps the best of these may
be said to be his hunting scene in
which horse, dog and rider have paused
for q minute in the days sport on the
crest of Hill and are looking down
and over the deeply wooded canyon of
the valley to the distant rolling hills
The Bonfire" is another excellent
sample of Hoyt's artistic work. 1t is
little corner of Golden Gate park. with
a gardener raking around a big fire of
old leaves and twigs, the thick volume
Of smoke from the flaming heap soft
ening and blurring into strange beauty
the whole face of the landscape
A herd OF cattle driven along a dusty
mountain road formed the inspira tion
for another picture that ranks among
the best on display. a drowsy summer
heat rests over the scene, lending a soft
haze to the outline of the countryside.
an effect intensified by the rising cloud
of dust in which the cattle are slowly
advancing.
Hoyts Indian studies, taken among
the Navajo and Pueblo tribes, are
strong, as well as pleasing, and are
among the number that received favor
able criticism in New York. To us his
local Chinatown pictures will doubtless
appeal more, as they are, for the most
part. scenes taken before the fire and
lures taken along the water front:
moonlight effects: one or two good pic
lures of the little side scenes of the
disaster of 1906 and pleasing studies
of animals, among which may be spe-
cially mentioned burros and dogs, are
A few of the other subjects on dis
play. AS a whole it is good showing.
of unusual interest and is well worth a
visit. 1t is the first of monthly series
Of exhibitions TO be given at the Brun-
ner-Bach studio.
At Gump's galley in Post street the
exhibition of the late Indian studies of
Mrs Alice Coutts was opened last
Monday. They have attracted con-
siderable attention and no little praise.
as they show the artist at her best, es-
pecially in her child studies, which are
particularly charming and delightful.
There are 13 csnvases on display, all
representative of the Indian life OF
Arizona and of this state. Mrs. Coutts
having lived among the Indians
in order to more truthfully depict
them Her poses are natural and true,
because she wove into her painting,
with a landscape setting that is beau