Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-20

BY Marie Hicks Davidson In San
Francisco Examiner.
Ambrose Patterson, societaire du
Scion d'Antomme, Paris, who is show
ing his paintings at Helegesen's studio,
S45 Suffer street, is having his first
elimpses of San Francisco, and like all
painters is seeing the infinite possibi.
lities for pictures of fogs and hills and
waterfront and sand dunes.
He recently went through the same
ecstacies OF discovery at Hawaii, and
his canvases now on exhibition con-
yey to his public some of the emotions
which he there experienced. OF
course both San Francisco and Ha-
vail have been discovered in the same
way by scores Of other artists, but
each paints his impressions in diff.
ferent manner. Else the world would
be full of cut and dried pictures
which would be Illustrations. merely.
When Madame Melba, an Australian
compatriot. discovered in New York
and acted as fairy godmother to
Ambrose Patterson, sending him to
Paris. she made but one request. It
was that he should study under Whist.
Ter, and he did. +
Hawaii was the last place visited
before he came to San Francisco, and
through the medium Of number OF
characteristic Hawaiian canvasses,
the largest of which is his Kilauea,
now hanging in the foyer of the Fair.
mont hotel. he introduces himself to
San Francisco.
Cuneo and Patterson have not met
for years, but upon arrival of the
latter in San Francisco few weeks
ago he met Rinaldo Cuneo, a younger
brother of the comrade of the Paris
student days and together the two are
exhibiting their work.
Patterson's contributions depict the
flamboyant colorings of the tropics.
There are glimpses of sun-lit hills,
stretches of tropic waters of unbe-
llievable colorings, peeps into Ha-
waiian carnivals, limitations of native
rites and festivals, corners of the Ha-
waiian Chinatown, with its kaleidos-
copic hodgepodge of kimono, holoku
and trouserette. .."
There are twenty canyasses Cata.
logued at Helgenen's besides the big
seven by four" of Kilauea at the
Fairmont. OF these half dozen are
quite notable. There is a Honolulu
lantern parade, with good treatment
OF figures and a mastery composite.
ness. There is hula dancer, grit
with ii leaves and gyrarting in the
light of sputtering lamps for the de-
lectation of a motely crowd in an
isolated loggia. -.
On a cliff jHtting over trans
lucent sea. against an apalescent sky
grows the Poinciana Regia, a flower
ing tree which drips yermillion. It
was painted in June or July, for only
in those two months does it produce
such riot of colors. In this picture
Patterson has caught the tourists
idea of Hawaiian flora.
Color and Action
The Honolulu fish market, homely
subject, Is glorified by being bathed in
color and whirled in action.
A section of Honolulu's Chinatown,
"Maunakea street." is very like a San
Francisco Chinatown, which is as il
should be technically. If a Chinatown
in either place is to be considered
typical of China. 4
The beaches and the waters ar,
rested as they break on the sand are
lovely in their color and treatment.
Two woodcuts supplement the oils.
They are a small picture of Hawaiian
palms and a decorative treatment of
the great Kilauea.
Cuneo's works on the opposite wall,
are quieter in tone.
Marin Hills peculiarly construct
ed picture in that it has no back.
ground, no point of beginning or ending
no center or circumference, conveys a
realistic impression of the solidity Of
the wooded mountains on the north
shore, Of their nist-bathed greenery
and ohtuse angles of formation.
Laurels and eucalypti, poplars and
meadows does Cuneo like to paint, and
in that line he seems to have found
his forte. Over all his pictures is an
apaque effect, a peculiar light, as If