The San Francisco call., 1910-12-18
BY MARGARET MARSHALL DOYLE

ing unusual by the fact that three pic
lures are framed in one. giving a beau
tiful stretch of oak fringed meadow
land with nearby bay and distant low
blue lavendar hills. This panoramic
idea has enabled the artist wonderfully
to exploit the singular beauty of the
landscape, the scene apparently being
one from near Carmel
1t is executed with a vague half
misty loveliness, augmented by the low
hanging gold touched clouds near the
horizon line. by the quiet of the blue
green bay and by the view of homes
nestled in the hollow beyond the roll
ing Sreensward The tones are still
and rich. The color is marvellous. and
1t is one of the finest of the four or
five paintings by McComas now being
shown at the gallery.
McComas is also holding an exhibit
ton in New York at the Macbeth gal
leries with s of his Arizona pictures
on view. These are for the most part
paintings of the Bad Lands on the desert
and of the Indians of the southwest and
range from the cold greys and blues Of
Rim Rock to the warmth and luxury of
color of the Walpi canyon and the
orange mesas, made so famous by the
brushes of more than one of the fore
most california painters.
Ferdinand Bursdorff has returned
from his recent sketching trip TO the
desert and is once more established at
his Carmel studio. where he is busiIv
at work in preparation for his coming
exhibition at the Vickery. Atkins and
Torrey galleries. scheduled for April
This display promises to be an eNcep-
tional one, as Burgdorff'S trip was de-
To int
tured into the heart of the desert.
stopped at the Enchanted Mesa. passed
a couple of weeks in a nearby Indian
village, put in fortnight at the Grand
Canyon and throughout Arizona and
New Mexico generally, everywhere
painting as he went
Scenes of the mountains and the
rivers and the broad pIateaus i'm the
moonlight as we'll as his favorite
theme of the mesas with their brilliancv
of color, he has brought back with him
as material for future canvases He
took his southern journey when the
country was at it's most beautiful and
its best, with sunsets that flooded the
landscape with all the glory of fairy
land, and with moonlights almost silver
blue in their high brightness of tone
His coming exhibition in consequence
promises to be a remarkable one and
will certainly prove of vast interest TO
those who love the desert and the
great southland. Burgdorffs work is
as a rule delicate in tone and soft and
luminous in color, with touch that is
distinctly the artists own and giving
individuality to whatsoever he depicts
The 40 Italian and French scenes by
Charles Turner, which have been on
exhibition at the Sketch club in Post
street, will be displayed for another
week. the view being open to the public
daily from 10 a. m. until ) D. m They
include sketches or Venice. OF Rome
of TivoI and Florence, in all the
warmth and gold of the southern sun
shine. Turner handles his work with
great delicacy and his sunlight is done
in a remarkably high key. that is true
to Italy His hill town scenes are
particularly picturesque and are bring
ing great praise to the artist at his
first collective display since his recent
European trip.
The exhibition OF A. ". Best and Mrs
Alice Best at the st. Francis has also