Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-12
The North Window
ny LEILA MECHLIN

ana deserted, let no one thlnk thdt
art activities have ceased and that the
artists are idle. Summer Is the land
scape painters harvest time and the
various art colonies are buster In
July and August than the traditional
hive Of bees. On the New England
coast there are three famous colonies.
located at Ogunquit, Me-, Gloucester
and Provincetown, Mass Then there
is the colony at Lyme. Conn, a bit
back from the shore, where the salt
creeks leisurely creep in and out as
the tide GIBBS aud flows. In the first
! three of these places there are sum-
| mer schools. much patronized by art
students.
At Ogunquit, Charles Woodbury.,
! the well-known painter and etcher.
whose interpretations Of the sea rank
high. has for some years gathered
around him a group OF students OF
| landscape and marine. through whom
his influence has been strongly i'm
pressed and fortunately SO, upon CO
| temporary production. Miss Sawtelle
OF this city is one OF his pupils ana
| has in seasons past acted as one OF
his assistants. Ogunquit has charm
OF it's own, quite different from any
other place. with it's sandy beach, its
| rocky headlands, it's picturesque cove
| its rolling uplands covered with
-
lock, backed by a fine stretch of pine
woods. There IL a certain rivalry be-
| tween Ogunquit and Gloucester, the
! inhabitants Of each claiming superb
| GRITTY in beauty. the Ogunquit So
journers boasting of their sunrises,
the Glousterites claiming first place
! for their sunsets, and in each instance
with good cause.
Emil Carlson has a studio at Ogun-
quit and occupies it late into the
So 4. F11I
have gone. and il is there for the most
part that he paints his most beautiful
pictures of the sea.
At Gloucester there is the triple in
terest OF water. landscape and town.
for Eastern Point Gloucester has the
ocean on one side and the harbor with
| it's endless shipping interests on the
| other. and looking back over ones
| shoulder there is ever present the
lovely vistas of the town, climbing
| the hill, with it's picturesque church
| spires pointing heavenward.
| There are several summer schools
| at East Gloucester and have been for
| these many, years. Season after sea-
[ son Henry B. Smell conducted classes
! there; so also did Mrs. Rhoda Holmes
Nichols. Now Hugh Breckenridge Of
philadelphia has a school on the inner
harbor. and Felicie Walden Howell,
whose studio is on Rocky Neck, has
her following of pupils. In the old
days before the North Shore became
| so popular as a millionaires summer
resort, George de Forest Brush used
\ TO spend his summers at Gloucester,
| as did Childe Hassam; and tradition
| tells of a summer when Winslow
| Homer painted there and when Rud
yard Kipling was staying and writing
| in one of the oldest of the hosteiries
| Then a little group of Washing
| tonians-the Curtises, the Childs. the
! Bertha Perrie. Everett Warner and
! others. formed tiny colony of their
! own. and in the way of sport got out
an occasional publication entitled
| in-chief, and to one of the issues
1 Stockton Arson, ex-President Will
| sons law. who was asso-
ciate editor. contributed a poem en-
] titled Them Arises" setting forth
| supposedly the Gloucester fisherman's
! idea of the summer invaders. 1t ran
| in part as follows:
cester Ssilorman?
1t isn't fightin' wind and fog. nor driftin'
It isn't toiling OF the banks where hshin's on
! the bum
1t isn't even wrestlin with the facts of
It's these everlastin' artises a settin' all
A paintin' everything we do from the top
|. mas. to the ground. /.
They take US in our overalls. 30 shapeless
You can hardly tell by lookin' If we're
gOn' or comm back;
4 Our wives and our sweethearts fail to
But it seems 70 suit these artises-the women
and the men.
For they puts into picters and they think
it's Just immense: =.
| They call it picturesque" I b'lieve, but 1t
certain isn't sense.
They're paintin' in the sunshine, they're
They're paintin' when It's rainin' hard enough
| to drown a dog
They paint when it is high tide. and then the
And leaves the harbor mostly slime, all
So nasty that you'd think it would digust a
| harbor rat.
But Gosh would you believe it? They've
| even painted thatF
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Gloucester has had the distinction
| for several years of having an excep-
| tionally fine exhibition gallery-the
Gallery on the Moors, owned and
! built by Mr. and Mrs. william e.
| Atwood, adjacent to their summer
! home. This gallery was designed by
| Ralph Adams Cram. and was built in
L
| lures, through the cooperation of
| craftsmen and builders. Its exterior
| walls are of pink Stucco, and its in
/ terror consists of one large room with
a stage, suitable for exhibition pur-
! poses, for plays and lectures, with a
! little balcony at the rear for spec
\ tators and for the exhibition of
! prints. Herein for several years have
4 been held annually exhibitions of the
| summer work of North Shore artists,
II = leo nNh D0y1No n q
! Gloucester Players have given series
| of extremely clever dramatic per-
\ formances. So great has been the
| interest awakened that this year two
| other galleries are coming into ex-
| istence, and exhibitions will be fairly
| continuous.
/ The colony at Provincetown may
| truly be said to have been founded by
| Charles w. Hawthorne, who discov-
cred material there among the. Portu-
| guese fisher folk for his own painting
| and therefore established at this
| place his now famous summer school
| of outdoor figure painting. It is the
| stronghold of the Beach .Combe rs,
\ an organization of artists-painters,
| illustrators and print makers-that
| has become we'll known throughout
the country. The Provincetown Art
| Association is a f1ourishing organiza-
! ton which has within the past year
acquired an old house which it has
| remodeled into a gallery and under
the auspices Of which an annual ex-
| hibition is held in July and August.
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Lyme, Conn. is an, all-year-around
colony and 1t, too, has its exhibition
gallery and it's annual summer show.
one of the first summer exhibitions
| established in this country and one
| Of the most successful. A unique fea-