The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-13
I"MY IDEA is TO MAKE MY EXHIBIT AN AN
NUAL AFFAIR SA VS. MISS LUCILLE DOUGLASS
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persuade themselves that TO make any
sort Of impression on the public, it is
| necessary to cultivate generally to their
own disadvantage artificial effects, 1t Is
sincere pleasure to find a young
woman talented, original, clever, and
spontaneous, like Miss Lucille Douglass.
who has bade adieu to these artificial
| tiles and paints nature as she really Is,
and who holds nature in the highest es-
TEEN, and loves to portray her in her
happiest and most sympathetic moods,
giving those a sane singing, ringing.
poetic, nterpretation-witnout which no
real artist can ever hope to attain the
title.
An exhibit of this character, Miss
Douglass Is now holding at the hand
somely appointed rooms OF the Equal
| Suffrage association, and as n prelude l
would say that the langues OF her pic
lures deserves a note of commendatlon to
begin with, since it is done with discrimi-
mating care and a judicious distribution
of the various representative groups.
something generally regarded as super
fiuous of attention, In many far more
ambitious displays.
The group of probably so pictures rep
. resents Miss Douglass work for five
weeks in California, also her visit ex-
| tended over four months, with here and
| there q Spanish sketch, used merely be-
cause of its relation to color and fire.
in these wonderful sketches of the west
Miss Douglass talks charmngly OF her
Impressions of that wondrous country
and the opportunities the colorist has,
and the tremendous scope the imagina-
ton is provided with, under the blue
blue, western skies, with the majestic
Pacific in the backward, furnishing light
and color to the ensemble. =
Most of the sketches are Of the mag
nificent trees and sand dunes of Cali
fornia, and among those which attracted
especial attention at the exhibit yester-
day was Evening On the May of Mon
terey." The coloring is remarkable for
it's nuances and shades the wonderful
yellow glow pictured by the sunlight, al
most unbelievable in it's vividness, and
tones, and the clouds like misty chiffon
draperies floating aimlessly above, but
all that the golden glow of southern
California suggests, makes this beautiful
picture unusual in Its conception.
THE Sand Dunes At Carmel repre-
sent the wondrous blue of the Pacific
with the snow white of the dunes like
immaculate riffs on snow in the dis
tance-majestic, royal, regal, in their
beauty
Where Stevenson Lived is a pastel
of remote little house, suggestive of
the '"reller of Tales" as the Samoan
Na1 1O1
wrote many of his most remarkable
books in this vine matched cottage. A
tremendous tree of gigantic proportions
shelters the little hut from the wind
and the storm and its superb branches
enfold the earth beneath like a protecting
mother enfolds her children.
Twilight" describes a tree in an old
Spanish cemetery at Monterey. The air
of distinct mystery that these trees of
the west possess is different from all
other trees-is shown by the celorist's
brush, with the duh gray setting, while
the lovely stiffness of the twilight is
actually felt by the critic, as he remarks
the picture-done by master hand.
81 have come home, filled with ambi-
tion," said Miss Douglass yesterday,
land a desire to do big things" When
look about in this wonderful district
and see the opportunities offered to the
artist. | am appalled,. The more one sees
of other sections of the country, the
more the originality of subjects that this
district offers, Is impressed upon one
Take the furnaces, for instance In no
other section of this country are such
possibilities offered"
The Cubists. the Futurists and the
Post-I -Impressionists, would be in their
glory with such subjects" I suggested
"Tm not at all in sympathy with the
cubists." said Miss Douglas as she
smiled. 81 don't think we can ever ap-
preciate what we don't understand, and
don't believe anybody, not even the
cubists themselves understand what they
are trying to do. I believe, however
that this new movement In art, whether
sane or not, has done a great deal to
awaken interest all over the art world
Take the international exhibition in New
York last February. 1t did more to
enighten art than anything that has hap
ppened within the last decade. Whatever
their cult, the new movement is striv-
ing for something that hasn't been done