The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-14
I'm the ART World

Preparations are now under way for
nine days in November in the tapestry
room of the st. Francis hotel, where
$50 sketches of India and Indian life,
with portraits of many of the most
prominent Indian princes, will be
shown.
The affair is being planned on a mas
sive scale The walls will be hung with
cloth of gold, as fitting background
to the dun colored frames which will
Offset the canvases, with their rich
oriental color. A miniature cypress
forest will be transported for the occa-
sion and. small lake will add the fin
ishing touch to the setting. The WORKS
to be displayed are those of Hugo V.
Petersen, the Danish artist, who has
been occupying the Charlie Dickman
cottage in Monterey for the last three
years.
Born in Copenhagen, Petersen studied
his art in his native city and in Paris,
started out on the Is year tour of the
world that has made him famous.
Twelve of these years he passed in
Sumatra, India, Ceylon, Java, Burmah,
Siam, Japan and China, coming by way
of Honolulu to California. Paintings
done in all of those places will be in
cluded in the view he will hold opening
November 8. Many of the paintings are
portraits, among them being the ma
harajah of Burdwan, the late maharajah
of Mysore, Lord Curzon. Sir Andrew
Fraser and other prominent personages
equally we'll known.
Among the best of his landscapes are
TAI Mahal'' by moonlight, and THE
Pride of ASIA a scene by the Tai
Mahal river. Besides these, the variety
alone. of the display will be worth the
seeing, including as it does rare scenes,
from the borders of civilization, into
the lavishness and richness of the old
world countries, with their inexhausti-
BILE sunshine, their vivid tints, their in
teresting side life and odd, bizarre cor
ners. From the picture of the emperor
of Soerakarta, painted for the queen of
Holland, to the coolie rickshawman of
Singapore, they are all true to the peo-
pie and the life they depict.
The exhibition here will be repeated
in eight of the large cities of the United
States, and the same canvases will also
be shown in London, Paris Dresden,
Berlin. st. Petersburg and the artists
native city, Copenhagen. After his ex-
hibition tour Petersen will return to
this country. as he contemplates per-
Sea, and has already taken steps toward
the erection of studio there.
Many of the California artists who
have been away studying in Europe or
travelling in the east have returned to
this city and as result of their, trips
number of Interesting exhibitions are
promised for the early fall season
Among those who have just arrived are
orrin Peck and Albert Hooper. The
latter has been studying in Rome for
the last four years. but he will now
establish himself in local studio Will
lam Carrigan is also back, but only for
visit, as his field of work lies in New
York for the present.
Mrs. May Curtiss Richardson has just
returned from New York, where she
held a successful exhibition at the Mac
beth galleries. She has reopened her
studio on Russian hill and later will
hold a collective view of her PAINTINGS
at vickery, Atkins & Torrey's, in SUIT
ter street. At this gallery a couple of
canvases by Carrigan are being shown
and some exquisite little water color
sketches from the brush of the late
Sydney Yard.
Before her return to New York some
of Miss Susan Watkins portraits will
also be shown at this gallery, done
since her arrival on the coast Among
those she has painted at Hillsboro are
the three little Clark girls. the daugh-
tiers of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Clark, the
Robert Coleman children and a number
of others.
A number of striking late landscapes
from the brush of w. F. Jackson of