Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-02

marines and murals are
distinctly southwestern His series of
murals of the cliff dwelling and In
dian country in the Indian Arts build
ing at San Diego have been admired
by the ereat throngs at the EXPOSE
tlon. He Is finishing two murals for
the Hotel Grammatan in BronNville,
New York, situated in the midst OF a
Famous art colony. He also has COM
for Minneapolis and other
large cities. Several of his paintings
are the property of the museum. He
at one time lived at Albuquerque.
Versatile Artist.
Carlos Nierra. Who inherited his
artistic temperament from portu-
guese parentage. first gained promi-
nenee as an illustrator for the New
York magazines and then as a marine
painter He has sailed the seven seas
and served before the mast In the
southwest he quickly acquired the
spirit of the mountains and the mcsas,
the sunshine and the atmosphere His
admirable paintings of the New Mex
leo missions and puehlos in the New
Mexico building at san Diego, divide
favor with his wonderful mural paint
ings of the Maya cities IN the Cali
fornia building and which were
painted under a commission from the
state of California. II Is n matter of
no small pride TO the Museum of New
Mexico that the state of California.
which proclaims itself as the Italy OF
America, Just like New York art low
ers, come to the Palace of the Gov
erners at Santa Fe for the highest cX-
preston in art, and commissions ar
lists attached TO the museum to paint
for them. Mr. Nierra is at
work upon the mural paintings for
the new meuseum building by the
late Donald Beauregard and which
will be the gift of New Mexico $
great patron Of art, Hon. Frank
Springer.
Another Pair of Artists.
X. NJ. Chapman. another artist at
the museum, Is working with Mr.. VII
ezra, on the st. Francis murals for the
New Mexico building. He, too, is an
illustrator who made the drawings
for the monumental works Of Hon
Frank Springer ON paleontology Mr..
Chapman Is equally at homo in land
scape and figure work and Is also
lutte clever as eartoonist Mrs.
Chapman, too, is an artist, a graduate
IF the Philadelphia academy.
Member of the Salmagundi Club
Sheldon Parsons, who was well
Known in New York as portrait AZ
well as q landscape artist, has had a
studio at the museum the past few
Years and his pictures have found
heir way to many exhibits in this
country as well as into the homes of
lrt lovers. one Of his more amhi-
ious landscapes hangs in the home Of
he late e. H. Hartman on Fifth ave-
nue.. New York, a great patron of
lrt. He has an exhibit at present at
he Country club at Albuquerque. He
belongs to the Samagundi club,
Three Other Artists.
Miss Benson the Deming artist,
las been painting in and about Santa
Re the past summer and fall and Is
finishing n commission for illustra-
ions from an eastern publishing
'irm
Mr.. Millesen the Chicago artist,
pent the past summer at iiarvcy's
'anch above Las Vegas, producing 4
iegies of canvases that were simply
They were exhibited at
he palace Of the Governors which
Turing the past two years has had
scores Of exhibits by noted artists,
iome of them exhibiting their pictures
here before the great public Of the
zig cities had an opportunity TO see
hem.
irt Treasures In Museum.
The beautiful murals of Carl Lotav,
n the Puye, Rito de los Friioles and
'estibule of the museum, have been
admired by tens of thousands and to
hose unable to visit the cliff dwell
ngs have given at least vivid inn
PRESTON of their grandeur and beauty
o take with them and to lure them
,ack to Santa Fc. Mr.. Lotav was for
while an artist on the Denver Post
nd is now connected with New
forks civic art commission. The
Of the New Mexico missions,
" Karl Flcischer, Hungarian artist,
re now on exhibit in the New Mex
co building AT San Diego, and Will he
to the museum. Artists like
HARP and Cassidy have presented TO
he museum paintings, which togcth-
+ with the Bcauregard paintings and
he murals by Lotav. Bcaurcgnrd,
Terra. Chapman, ard the pictures of
an Arctic landscape Of Da-
is, form the beginnings Of state
TT gallery. The Lotav murals arc
he gift If Hon. frank Springer.
Allen Topper True. whose splendid
are drawing crowds to the
museum at present, is typically a
for he was born at
Il Paso and while he studied under
}rangwyn and abroad feels at home
MY in New Mexico and Colorado. lis
pent tho summer in the vicinity Of
;anta Fe ana Taos, painting az he
vent along. the result being some fifty
ketches and finished pictures that re-
lect the very spirit of forest noun
ain and plain.
State Art Gallery Under Way.
The state art gallery in the new
museum building will have the latest
nd best lighting effects and it Is thcl
Ian Of Mr. Springer to devote an en-
ire room to the paintings Of the late
)onald Boauregard. an adopted son
# New Mexico and d westcrner by
firth. Mr. Bcauregard studied in
'aris Munich and Berlin, and prom
sed to become one of the really great
rtlsts Of America. His pictures.
through the generosity of Mr.. Spring
+, are on exhibit at the San Diego ex
osition, but viii be returned TO Santa
e for permanent installation. 1t was
1r. Beaurcgard too, who planned and
egan the work ON the mural panels
g.. nd Tt,f ~