Evening star., 1941-08-24

in Marblehead, flowers and other
still life
With the borrowed pictures from
out-of town, special note attaches
to studies of heads by George Elmer
Browne and Leopold Seyffert. From
North Carolinian, Gene Erwin,
came two interesting water colors,
one a decorative design OF flowers,
the other the head of young Negro
girl seen against foliage.
The Marlbehead Art Association
is particularly active along the lines
of the graphic arts, and associate
members. styled Friends of Contem-
porary Prints" who pay annual dues
of only S5, receive one original print
a year by an etcher of distinction.
The first of these issued was a
charming view of typical Marble
head street, that on which the King
| Hooper House stands. an antique
! shop on the near corner and elms
/ shading both houses and walks, the
work of Samuel Chamberlain. The
print for 1910 was a portrait study
/ of a little boy with big, dark eyes,
son of a fisherman, a characteristic
work by Arthur w. Heintzelman.
Both are covetable possessions. The
le41 print, it is announced. is to be
| by Frank w. Benson of nearby
| Salem.
Until comparatively recently, both
| Mr.. HeintZelman and MI. Chamber
lain spent most of their time abroad.
Both now make their home at Mar
blehead. however, living in pic
turesuue old houses on Front street,
which runs along the waters edge,
where are the wharves and ship
building yards. This choice Of Mar
blehead as place of residence is not
so remarkable as it might seem, for,
| although a typical American town,
it has a certain Old World atmos-
phere which those who have lived
in Europe would be bound to find
congenial.
Mr.. Heintzelman is especially busy
this summer, asserting, arranging
and cataloguing a large and very
fine collection of prints by contem-
porary artists which has been given,
by an astute collector, to the Boston
Public Library-a collection which
runs into the thousands and includes
complete representation of the out
put of the foremost etchers of our
time, both here and abroad.
Mr. Chamberlain, who is best
known for his exquisite etchingS of
Old World scenes and buildings,
has, since settling in Marblehead,
turned to another branch of art
pictorial photography-thereby in
terpreting, and beautifully as well
as faithfully, New England in win
ter and summer, by the sea and in
land, recording historical buildings
and their interiors in the same spirit
that Frances Benjamin Johnston
of Washington has, under special
grants from the Carnegie Corp,
been recording for the Library of
Congress the architecture of the
Old South. Mr.. Chamberlain's
photographs are being published in
booklet form. with descriptive text,
which he, himself, has furnished,
and are, therefore, spreading the
knowledge of that which is best in
our American tradition as well as
contemporary American life.
Marblehead is, furthermore, the
summer home of several well-known
artists who come here not only for
work, but for recreation. among
whom are the New York portrait
painter, Orlando Rouland, and the
master-craftsman, Frank Gardner
Hale. Mr.. Rouland has a large
house-one of the Oldest in the
town-and big studio with spacious
north window in Lookout Court,
near Abbot Hall, which stands on
the highest rocky promontory and
in the center of Washington Square,
surrounded by stately old houses.
Our National Collection of Fine Arts,
in the custody of the Smithsonian
Institution, has several of Mr.. Rou-
lands works, among them his por-
trait of John Muir. In his studio
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pictures of the town, portraits of
the old toymaker of Marblehead
at his workable, and of a former
postman who, for years, told no one
that he was not only conscientiously
delivering mail twice a day, but, for
his own satisfaction, writing poetry
good poetry. He is now editor of
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the way, has heading designed
and drawn years ago by Childe Has
sam, showing the lighthouse on
THE Neck" and view of the town
from the water.
Successful Gardener.
Mr.. Hale, whose beautiful hand
wrought jewelry is well known in
Washington. does not work in Mar
blehead Chis workshop-studio is in
Boston,, unless making a garden
of especial loveliness may be SO
called. Every one gardens in Mar
blehead, but few so skillfully or
successfully as he. What was once
a rather grim hillside, a catch-all
for trash, with shallow soil and
much rock, under his planting and
care has become a place of great
beauty-a terraced garden per-
petually filled with blooming plants,
masses of color, well designed yet
with an air of natural creation.
Marblehead is a place of gardens
and, especially in hollyhock time,
filled with colorful bloom. Every
where one goes there are flowery
vistas; flowers hang over the street
fences and peer at the passerby