St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-10-23

painters are doing.
The pictures will be on view until
after Sunday, Oct. ~, and Judging
by the number of people Of all ages
who stop to study them, 1t appears
that st. Johnsbury appreciates her
own beauties viewed through the
eyes of the trained artist. Mr.. and
Mrs. Kaula have studied and exhibit
ed largely, both abroad and in this
country, but are now devoting them
selves entirely to art in America,
proving that nowhere else is nature
more prodigal with her beauty, than
right here at home.
Mr.. Kaula gets his inspiration di-
rectly from the landscape in this vi
cinfty, and apparently no aspect of
the subject has escaped his observing
mind He has feelingly expressed
the gray days-he has glowingly set
down the brilliant autumn ones, and
has noticed how our hills appear in
brilliant sunshine-how they melt
away in the tender colors of the late
afternoon-and how they sleep when
the moon hides high at night Some
of his cloud effects are very wonder
full, showing great power over mind
and paint, in imprisoning on canvas
with such accuracy and at the same
time so much feeling, those great
eVer-changing masses of light and
color with which our skies are filed.
The selection of the right FORMS to
fill the sky of particular landscape
is the work of a master, and any
observer will notice how soon an as
pect of nature has passed away, rea-
lizing how surely and quickly the
artist must get his impression Of the
thing as a whole, in value and color,
before nature has painted the land
scape all over again, using entirely
different color and lighting scheme.
But Mr.. Kaula is versatile enough to
follow nature in her transformation
scenes, and presents to our view the
surrounding country of st. Johns
bury in all its moods and lenses, from
summer green through September's
brilliance, to October's duIIed
warmth of subdued richness, and all
this viewed through an atmosphere
charged with sunshine or with mist,
and lighted by an tnnumerabIe
range of quantity of light according
as he has chosen midday or evening.
Among those which seemed to be
attracting more than passing inter-
est were Evening (34) and The Last
Rays CAD and for autumn beauty,
Danville Hills (10) and An After
noon RambIe 600, while Clouded
Sun (12) and Sunlight and Shadow
CD were among the strongest cloud
effects and the Burke Mountains in
Vermont landscape (23) was ex-
tremely beautiful in color. Mrs |
Kaula shows only figures and has
found the models for all her compo- !
sitions among the young beauties of |
CT T0hnchTru Tho T1rOd141ffOr 0f fIa J
Pageant this summer brought out of |
seclusion many beautiful old gowns
of earlier days and some of these are |
used to produce wonderful color |
notes in these truly glowing can
vases.
Besides the real aesthetic pleas
ure one gets from these pictures,
from the color and pleasing COM
position, there is the feeling of salts
faction derived from the sense of |
clever and sound draughtsnlanship /
The heads are beautifully modeI ed,
and the hands and arms are splendid
Iy constructed and forehortened.
The delight the artist herself took
in producing these pictures is felt by
the spectator who views them, who
in his turn gets the sensation of en-
ioyment made upon him by a beau
tiful color combination, and proving
that Ruskin was right when he said
that color" is meant for the perpet-
ual comfort and delight of the human
heart" Peonies is particularly salts
tying in color and complete in COM
position.
St. Johnsbury is indeed fortunate
TO have such a collection of this !
years paintings hung where every
body is welcome to go and enjoy
hem.
MARY ROSS KELLEY.