The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-18
ITEMS OF MOMENT TO THE SOCIETY WORLD
Luncheon Parties at the Southern Club-Mss Carrie
Hills Painting of Scenes Around Birmingham-En-
gagements--Events to Cone---Dinner Partes-Visi-
tors-Other Topics

F, it is painted in just that spirit of love
and pride that has enabled her to get the
| best out of every landscape, and which
equps her for the novel reputation which
she hopes to attain-that of being strictly
a Birmingham painter.
The changing seasons are indicated in
Miss Hils paintings-winter with it's
gaunt trees, desol4te wastes empty
cheeress parts through forsaken wood
lands autumn with its browns, yeliows
and grays of tree and Sky, and its dreamy
sadness; spring in all the gladness of its
blossoming She loves trees and has
painted them with more feeling perhaps,
than her brush has shown to any other
object.
There is a delightful little canvas in her
collection whose subject is a bit of HE
winding jagged stream that escapes iror
Village creek at one point The clear
little pool of water which is lazily drop
ping over obstructins sticks and stones
is oNershadowed by the trunk of O large
tree whose roots are exposed through the
persistent washing of the brooSlet. 1t is
just a glimpse of the woods-just a fras-
ment indeed, but those who have gath
cred wild flowers in tnat locality will lie
captivated with the whole of the little
scene. Very different in feeling is a little
painting done at ldlewild, of several trees
in the leafy freshness of spring, the bril-
nance VI sunny udy. Inc lOldSe al
most touches the ground, and cleVaf
feacture is the slant of their big shadows
which appear to be coming toward you
as YOU examine the painting The shad
ows make it rather an unusual study ard
Miss Hills whole conception of IL is
charming.
At Edgewood she painted the peach and
plum trees in blossom-and proved Eer
keen appreciation of color. The young
a "a IL
diers. have the loveliest masses of faint
rose and lavender, the tone of the blooms
and of their shadows Distance is in6i-
Gated in this one, and where earth and
sky seem to meet, the colors, blue and
green are delightful. In this as in sew
eral of her other new spring sketches
Miss Hill has used her colors with rare
delicacy. The big trees in the Perry yard
at Edgewood are beautifully treated, and
on the opposite side Of town a bit of Miss
Hills back yard at home is as pretty. 1t
was done this spring and there are shady
places and tell brown fence, and aprle
trees and peaches just showing a few
budding flowers.
Returning to Idlewild, she has a can
vas painted from vantage looking to-
ward town. Its central object is the gas
plant whose tall spire shows among the
verdure. On Shades mountain she has
painted a quaint little tumbledown cabin,
horseback riders who frequent the bride
paths over the mountain. 1t is a very
| spring like scene and sympathetically
| terated.
| A very small canvas has hit of Village
creek scenery painted on the same road
| as the larger canvas, which tells of rhis
pretty place in autumn, and which was
| so vastly admired when exhibited last fall
| at the State fair. II think | have been
pretty true to nature In that" Miss Hill
| says of it, in her modest way. Il doitt
| think ! have romanced much And IL
| does seem very true, tue pine trees at the
side, slim and stately and cold: the green
of the pine needles, ard the pale yellow
of the bending sedge grasses.
| From tile, crest of 1'wenty-first street,
on the north side, she has sketched
scene strikingly familiar; the little cot
| ta6es and the bit Of sky with the clouds
overhead and the trees in their spring
dress making a personal sort of appeal
Another was painted near Martin school,
\ which is glimpsed In hazy fashion,
| misty and indefinite among its trees
And at Ensley. in larger way she re
Gently completed a painting which dem
onstrates the downright prettiness of even
| Birmingham's industrialism, for factories
| and furnaces in their clouds of pale
smoke, aft among the trees are as subtle
and almost as colol fdl as the pink and
white of the dogwood blossoms in the
Lee Bradley yard at Idlewild or ,he
blush of the redbud at Roebuck Springs
or the pale little clouds in sea of blue
which she has so delightfully."- placed in
enc of the little ''lone tree" appreciations
of Glen Iris. Miss Hill really sees them
all with the eye Of lover as well as an
artist. Her paintings--most of them-are
tiny things, but she has handled her oils
well and they show real merit. The civic
pride in her treatment Of her Birmingh M
landscapes is doubly commendable be-
cause it Is so beautifully expressed