The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22

of commentator that can be given
them
Among others whose contributions
nave also won favorable criticism are:
Mrs Rudolf Buckly, Mrs Adolf Gar
tenlub. Mrs. Charles Miller, Miss Cecilia
o'Reilly. Mrs. c. S. Sargent, Miss Eliza
beth Scofeld and Miss Florence Stull.
Miss Mildred Holden, who was ex-
pected back in time for the exhibition,
is still in Los Angeles visiting her
sister. the we'll known landscape artist,
Mrs. Marian Holden Pope. Miss Holden
will be back in a few days and will
resume her wood carving work in her
studio in Sacramento street. Later in
the year the Holden sisters will take
studio down town.
Prior to his departure for the summer
on a sketching. and teaching trip to
Greenbrae, A. W. Best has placed some
of his late canvases at two or three
of the local galleries. Two of these are
seen at Schussler Brothers in Sutter
street, both being views across the
bay taken in the foothills of Marin
county from the other side of Tamal-
pals. One is just a choice bit of wood
land scenery, showing the mingled sun
and shadow beneath the arching oak
trees along cow trail leading to the
distant gray hollow. The second can
vas is study of valley Aafld rolling
hill, with Tama lpais in the distance,
in their brightest and freshest of green
spring coloring just before the first
wild flowers bud. The foreground is
in deep shadow from the nearby oaks,
but the fields are bright with February
sunshlne. The cows in pasture, the
broken down gray fence to the left
and the trodden ground near the trough
all give to the painting a familiar air
that makes it appeal quite apart from
the natural beauty of the setting.
In the same gallery is shown a late
Gamble, large ambitions canvas, full
of color and vitality. 1t is handled
In simple direct way, showing the
spring season at its floral height. The
only break in the profusion of spring
color is in the low sage brush bushes
the rest of the scene is a vast sweep
of orange and blue purple, almost too
lavish and too startling to be real
CANDLES work in his wild flower
scenes, however, is true to our Cali
fornia fields, even though at first it
strikes the unaccustomed eye as slightly
exaggerated, but to many his work
appeals the more when it is shown in
a quieter tone, some of his late land
scapes with their evening skies and
twilight glows being among the best
things ever shown from his brush
The annual exhibition of the Cali
fornia School of Design at the San
francisco Institute of Art, which closed
last evening, was one of the strongest
and finest of its kind held there in
several years. The pupils have done
some remarkable work, which promises
big things for our coming artist colony
The life class had a specially good ex-
hibition, pencil or charcoal, oils or
water color, being the medium chosen.
The modelling class also had a good
group of figures displayed, and the
class of design under Charles Inger-
sons instruction has made some re-
markable forward strides in the seven
months it has been in existence.
In connection with the designs, book
covers, portfolio and magazine fronts
and conventional drawings, some en-
bossed leather pieces added greatly to
the credit of the design class workers.
The sketch class had some striking
the perspective, anatomy, antique, por-
trait and illustrating classes had good
showings of the terms work.
Miss FLORENCE Nutting, who won the
Julian academy medal last year, re-
ceived a high mention this year, and
her work will be among that sent on
to the famous French atelier. Every
year the best life class work of the pu-
pills of the institute is sent on to Paris
to be judged by French jury, and the
winner receives medal and years
free tuition
The instructors for this year at the
Institute of Art have been: Theodore
Wores, NJ Earl Cummings, John A.
Stanton, Robert A. Fletcher Henry
Everett Anderson, C. Chapel Judson
and Alice B. Chittenden.