Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-27
RARE WORKS OF
ART ARE SHOWN
Valuable Pictures Included
in Collections Exhibited
at the Fair.

An encouraging feature of the art
exhibit at the fair this year is found in
the number of really good pictures and
other works of artistic interest shown.
For the first time adequate wall space
has been given for hanging the pic
lures and sketches.
The word sketches" as distinguished
from pictures" is used advisedly, for
the work at the fair ranges from the
beautiful portrait painted by Mrs. H.
p. Ashby in Paris and exhibited In the
salon, the Grand Palais de Champs
Elysees, to the simple woodland
sketches of the "wanderer on the trail"
were bits of color and suggestions OF
form dashed hurriedly together after
the campfire has been put out and the
horses are being made ready for the
next pull up the steep mountain side
Mrs. Ashby's work has received the
highest honor accorded an artist--en-
trance into the old salon, the Champs
Elysees in Paris.
1t is good to have her and her beau
tiful work in Idaho. Mr.. Collins has
also received honors in other lands. as
has Mr.. Edward Smith. AS Mr.. Smith
| is the president and Mr.. Collins the vice
president of the Idaho Artists league,
which is trying to promote a stronger
interest in art in Idaho, the state has
in this regularly organized art body, at
least three members who have had
both honors and unusual opportuni-
ties for the study of art abroad.
EXQUISITE PAINTINGS.
Mrs. Sisson, who has also studied
abroad, has a whole gallery Of exqui-
site paintings of the Washington coast
to sh.w for her summers work, besides
many of her examples of Idaho see
merry. The artist colony is rejoiced to
see a Collins in the exhibit. II is II
very sincere piece of work that Mr.
Collins has placed on view. 1t is of
the Twin Falls and adjacent section
and the purple lava cliffs, the yellow
bloom and dull green of the sage de-
pict the still unconquered wastes of
southern Idaho with truth.
Miss CahooL has a notable, small
collection with one tiny point of broken
color in a wee canvas that is piquantly
refreshing.
Miss Fowler is represented by some
of the dainty heads by which she is
known best. A note of something bet
ter, Il distinct gaining of strength is
shown i'll two small figures, while the
young artists closely finished sketch
of johnson Creek" is as someone eX-
pressed it, "A poem"
DECORATED PORCELAIN.
From the Helfrich studio comes the
usual beautiful display of decorated
porcelain The exhibit is even finer
than usual. An unusual bit of painting
is exhibited by Miss Judith Watts. 1t
is painted design of yellow daisies on
boiling cloth. The work is known as
"'Kensington," or pen painting. Few
have ever seen such dainty yet rich
design as Miss Watts has traced on
the sheer material and which until
told, they think is needle work. The
attractive industries of basketry and
pottery are represented by work in
native clay, and the utilization of ma
tive grasses in basket and other orna-
mental weaving proves the possibilities
of even the lowly carpet of nature.
FANCY WORK.
Over in the fancy work department,
among the antiques, are found some
rare and fine examples of samplers, one
dated 1715. Accompanying these are
an old-time copper warming pan Of
real artistic value, and a beautiful old
hand bag of knitted silk and colored
beads, the beads knitted into the silk
in a sort of tapestry design.
The warming pan, with its long
handle of polished wood. once warmed
the feet of one of the ancestors of a
popular society matron of Boise. No
doubt the same ancestral home was
graced by the fair English maid who
worked the sampler of 1715, which is
valued possession of the matron in
question.
The art department this year is I'M
der the capable management of Miss
Marie Irwin and the work is arranged
with artistic feeling in the several
classes. A bit of art news, interesting
to all of the profession. comes this week
from San Francisco, where the deci-
sion of the Art association to retain
the Palace of Fine Arts at the exposi-
ton grounds as a permanent art mu-
scum for San Francisco, has been an
nounced to the great satisfaction OF
that art loving metropolis.
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Painless extraction of teeth by nerve