Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-24
Art Notes
BY ELIZABETH wAGGoNER

NT ANY Of California's well known art
h lists are represented in the perma-
IH nent exhibition at Ilington court,
which opened with a reception and
private view Thursday Among those
whose work is on view in this attractive
gallery are Harry l. Bailey Mrs. Elizabeth
Borglum Mrs. Nell Danely Brooker. Helen
E. Coan. Frank Coburn. Lillian Drain,
David Dunn. E. c, Frank. Louis Flecken-
stein, Nellie Huntington Gere. Martin j.
jackson. Ellen Kleinschmidt Jakob Koch.
a. Montgomery. Grace McKinstry. Charles
Nemethi, Regina OKane, Emily Perry,
chaTles A Rogers J. w Theiss DetIet ftIet
Bracken Wendt
While the gallery is devoted mainly to
the work Of local artists. we ind an occa-
sonal surprise such the small copy from
Rem brandt signed II. Raschell. a beautiful
bit Of painting. portrait of Judge Mayo
by Grace +. McKinstry occupies a prom men t
pace pace, IN tne gallery. and a number OF Miss
Mckinstrys watercolors. quaint old Dutch
interiors and picturesque fisher maids. are
also shown. That section of the gallery
where hang a number of monotypes by
Lillian Drain color etchings by Nell Danely
Brooker and artistic photographs by Louis
Fleckenstein Is especially pleasing. and in
this same corner we find a number Of re-
liefs by Emily Perry. The three sculptured
other room. her recently completed portrait
relief Of Carl Oscar Borg being among
them.
In going over the collection we find the
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presses us with it's quality. A group of
landscapes by Nellie Huntington Gere are
exceptionally good, done in charcoal and
wash she uses so successfully. A study of
tall eucalyptus trees against beautiful
California sky is most artistic In arrange
ment and In handling A landscape in oil
by Regina o'Kane is notably strong in
treatment, and a water color by Helen E.
Coan, showing a street In Chinatown in a
rainy twilight, is indescrlbably charming.
Her view of the mission Of san Juan Capis-
rrrtfL NfA h1agu 1lF0eu aI In
its courtyard, is also most delightful.
David Dunn shows q small marine that is
very nice in color, as is a Chinatown sketch
by Harry L. Bailey. although we always
like his splendid horses best. Martin j,
jackson shows some misty moonlight effects
that are quite unlike his earlier landscapes;
Frank coburn exhibits one of his effective
scenes OF the clty's streets on rainy night,
and ]. W. Thesis is at his best in some of
the California landscapes.
The courtyard with its surrounding gal
leries is a most enticing pot and Mr.. Boyd,
the manager Of the new art gallery. intends
to make It a home OF art that shall be open
to the public every day of the year from .
O'Clock until G. Thursday has been set
aside as a special reception day when tea
will be served IN the patio, and on one OF
two evenings of the month the galleries
will be open for social gatherings
Warren f. Rollins left this week for La
guna, n M. where he expects 10 live for
an indefinite period while working at his
series Of paintings of The Vanishing
Race" While in Los Angeles Mr.. Rollins
sold every canvas in his collection and his
return to civilization again with the result
of the study he has in view VIII be awaited
with interest.
Jack Gage Stark was in the city recently
en- route to Taos, N, NJ, where he and f.
A. Burbank will occupy the studio Of f. P.
sauerwen for a year or more during the alb
| sence Of Mr.. Sauerwein in the east.
The Fine Arts Journal, published in Chi
cago, contains in its April number the first
of a series of articles by Everett C. Maxwell
on the Art and Artists Of the Great South
west" The opening article deals with the de-
velopment, conditions and future or southwest
ern art and Is beautifully illustrated with re-
productions Of the work Of the Wachtels,
Hanson Puthuff. John W. Gamble, William
Wendt and Julia Bracken Bendt The May
number will follow with an article on the
work Of Elmer Wachtel and Marion Kavan-
augh Wachtel.
Miss Georgia w Kelsey gave a most en-
tertaining lecture at the Simpson auditorium
Thursday evening Rembrandt and the
paintings shown at the Hudson-lrulton expo
sition. The lecture was illustrated by the
stereopticon and several hundred beautiful
lantern slides used In the course of the
evening. Miss Kelsey is an easy, graceful
speaker and the evening was an artistic sue
cess. Archibald Sessions gave several numbers
on the organ as prelude to the lecture that
added to the enjoyment Of the evening.
Ernest Browning Smith is holding the sec
ond annual exhibition Of his paintings at
Blanchard hall, the large gallery being hung
with some twenty large canvases, all Cali
fornia landscapes. For those who have not
seen Mr. Smiths earlier work 1t is diff
fcut TO measure his progress, though he is
evidently a student as all painters must be,
and Is working out for himself the endless
problems Of the art, 'The Hilltop" is one
Of the most pleasing in color Of the can
vases shown and starlight is effective in
composition and color Several OF the scenes
shown were painted at Catalina where Mr.
Smith spends his summer, divided between
his profession as a musician and his evident
pleasure in painting