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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1898)
THE COURIER. Work of Local Ar tists and the Loan Collection. Lincoln, as well as the large number of good pictures in the loan collection at the university, de serves definite recognition. Mrs. Frances Mumaugh of Omaha contributed four pictures; two oils, Grape?, and Ro3es, and two water colors, a Cornfield and an Interior. The rosjs are paintad with great refinement and I have chanced on several occasions to ovarhear bystandere praising their color. Tho Cornfield and the Interior are truthful and transfused with an artist's spirit. Miss Parker's ideal young girl in pastel has The number of associates. The splendid massive head ordered tin rooms clo3eu. They re- purpriaingly good eet almost directly upon tho torso, tho mained locked up until last August, a pictures by the expression and tho crisp curls are very period of about 100 years, when Popo small and isolated like the Judge. Of "the three or four Leo XIII opened them, group of arist sin contributions from Mr. Bagg the Monte Mrs. Brock's charming studio is filled Chrlsto has softness and distance. Tho Cacti, souvenirs from tho same region, havo a good color and the number of them conveys the correct impression or their abundance on tho southwestern plain?. In the loan collection tho evidence of the discriminating taste of Nebraska c:tizens is in evidence. Perhaps the picture most admired 13 a marino owned by Mr. and Mrs. C. II. ImhofT and paint ed by Essig. It is a beach and the tide is coming in. The curling, transparent thy would better bo content to sit at feasts another ha9 propared. Tho work of tho students in Miss Parker's classes, modestly hung in the ante room came near being forgotten. with decorated china, her own and her because it is not listed in tho catalog and pupil's work. A large vase Mrs. Brock tho present unworthy critic is being has decorated with rosej, the spraB guided by that list. The work of Miss blend ng with the back ground, which Marian Smit 1 has fteedom, dash, orig repeats the green coloring of tho leaves, inality, ease. The quality of hor in while here and time is a touch of the spiration is tint rate and thero is every tones seen in these pearly flowers. Tho decjration3 on after dinner and choco late sets shov vary careful study in Dre3den and conventional patterns. Thero are a!so some excellent fig tiro pieces. The Haydon Art Club is under a per- head of a green wave that is just breaking, and the manent debt of gratitude to Mr. Leinin charming white topped bobbing and growing per of Oimlu, for the loan of some very color and the light in tho picture, not on waves greenly gleaming in the distance, valuable paintings. Without them the it, is a real inspiration. Miss Parker's preserves an artist's impression of the exhibition would not bo what it is. The portraits are always charming. Like ocean. Dr. GifTen's picturoof a soldier pictures were loaned by Mr. Leininger every other artist, including Sargent and on the plains stooping to Eoop up a for tho exhibit with a generosity nnd Chase and Whistler, she sometimes gats drink in his hat from a buffalo wallow is good will due to his genuine love of art a likeness and sometimes misses it, but familiar having been shown at the last and a desire that just as uimy people as from an artistic standpoint th result is exhibition of the Haydon Art Club possiolo might seo the pictures for which worthy of serious praise. The pastel where it was seen and purchased by Dr. he has spent a part of his fortune. The portrait of Miss Hartley is at once a and Mrs. Glffen. It is a spirited picture gem of the collection. The Villuge Street good likeness and a pleasing picture. If of man, hor6e and dog. in Winter, is owned by Mr. Leininger complete deception were tho object of Tho head of a little darky done in who bought it years) ago before M. Do paint Mrs. MsKnight has attained it in pastel by Mr. Burbank and loaned bj Lormc had mado much or a reputation, a Sea Shell. But WhUtler sajs that it Dr. and Mrs. Giffen is an example of Mr. Leininger siya he got it for a trifle, reason why she bhould continuo her study. Mr. Hull's studies are also strong and well conceived. Both of of these pupils havo encouraging possibitirs which used witn humility ncd earnest endeavor may give them n respectable standing among artists. Tho work of Miss Julia Lippincott ih also not listed in tho catalog but tho dainty tlower pieces and pen and ink sketches by Mis Lippincott are very charming. Mies Smith's work and Mr. Hull's is not the only attractive work on tho walls of tho ante room. Thero are bits hero und there which attract mu every time I piss through, by its possibilities. Mrs GitTen's drawings show vigor and quick comprehension of characteristics an.l there is the work of others whoso names are not at hand. Tho cartooiw of Harry Gage, who in now doing very acceptable work on tho Xetrs, reveals much is not the aim, and that a picture must what a few strokes of chalk on brown stay contentedly in its frame. Howaver paper can accomplish. Tho treatment that may be, Mrs. McKnight's shell is broad and there is not a line, however curves deliriously, all pinkly purple, into irrelevant at a clos view, that a few the mysterious interior, built by a feet away does not become important, heaven directed little iiiollusk. It would Xol to put on paper a line that does not suit Ruskin, this shell, if not Whistler, reveal the anatomy or characteristic for every characteristic mark of the sea- dress of the model is tho finished result faring dweller is upon it. Mis3 Wash's of the scaools. Such reserve gives to two tigura pieces are an excellent like- work, repose and simplicity; and saves nesofher father, Mr. Walsh, and an in it from tho fate that attends all fusst- tjresting 6tudy of a girl reading by ness. The portrait of Dr. Dayton by lamplight. Miss Walsh's chrvianthe- the well known French art'st, Dssar, is considering the prices which this artist strength which tho chalk plates obscure. recaive3 now for his work. Next to this The exhibition, an a whole, is the best pic uro in point of artistic worth is one that has yet been held in Lincoln Cbloe by Lefebvre. Besides these Mr. and its success, financial and artistic, Leininger sent Tho Money Changer insures another next winter. by Leo Brunin, Arab Scouts by ..TT7i.77i I . i ' J Anne completed bar twenty-second Schreyer, interesting' as an example of year jesterdav. the German school of the fifties, tho Yes. and I presume she will begin her Ches3 Players by Fichel. The Serpent twenty-first tomorrow. Charmer by Krnst, Canterbury Mead- -- - ows Sheep, by T. Sidney Cooper and In proportion to the size of the city in Correi in Skye by Louis B. Hurt. This which it is printed, The Kansas Gty Star loan represents many thousands of dol- has a larger circulation than any other mums are very clean in comr. -ipana a very good HKene39, ana 01 course uie iars. It was brought to Lincoln from American newspaper. Its remarkable suc Tuck, two Ski 8 terrier dogs, by Miss technique is faultless. Omaha by the Adams Express company cess has been achieved by its unfaltering ad Parker have attracted much favorable There are in the collection a numbor without charge. Mr. Cooper, the Lin- herence to the rule of giving its readers the comment. Miss Don Carlos' pictures of copie3 of tin old misters. The only coin agent, and the Ojiaha agent, have best that 'The Star's increasing revenues have been exhibited before. She has a one desirable from a modern point or done everythirg possible to help the could furnish and its improved facilities very rapid method and seems to pro- view is Raphiel's Madonna ot the Chair exhibit, and the directors ottbe H-ydon couldsupply. The Star was the first news duce large and imposing pictures with- loaned by Mr. and Mrs. Hall. The Art club feel deeply grateful. The bard paper to giv its readers a full week's papers out much difficulty, but they are hard closeness and harmony of the composi- work that has made such an exhibit six evenings and Sunday morning for JO and entirely without atmosphere except tion and the beautiful color, draw the possible has been done by Mrs. F. M. cents,a thing that could not be profitable in tho case of a little ship which eails eyes from all parts of the rocm. The Hall, who has devoted all her time dur- except when done on the big scale on which before the wind with a spirited action wide gilt fram9 with the winged cher- ing the exhibition and most of it for two The Star does everything. Weekly Star qu:te foreign to Miss Don Carlos' other ub3 in the corners forms a noble setting, or three months previous to the work of with The Courierone dollarper year, work. , Diana hunting represents a young l.dy preparation and advertisemnf. Of the four pictures contnou tea oy v. II. Green Crabbo's Bridge is very in teresting from the likeness to the place an fjmiiiar to us all. Rrses an 1 a stil1 with an elongated arrow in her band in an anatomical twist of anat'itude, quite impossible to maintain longer than thirty seconds, and with un:ntellig.ble feet. lire study by Mrs. Greenlee show a good But the old masters painted anything method and a worthy ideal. Ihcworkby they liked without danger to their rep tli9 MiEses Rogers is distinguished by utat:on. The head ot Christ, loaned very careful technique. INotnmg is bv Tho first or this week Mr. O'Brien's unframed contribution or water colors was tacked on to the south wall or the art gallery. Among them there are threeor four or great beauty and inter est, notably a marine which is placed just over the door. The sun is under a cloud and the waves are dark green and shroud white, the water is deep and transparent. There is also a Toon ot a country road winding into the dusk cf a summer evening that 13 very tender, also a Vanderpjel ot merit. The figure pieces are inclined to be hard. They are evi dently painted to raise tho wind, "pot boiler?," in short, and are without inspi ration or feeling, yet they are decorative and would not be a blot anvwhere. But cooooc oarcccxt) 9 9 Dr. West, is the head anl slighted. Several of their pictures are 0D0 fnulder of an heroic figure of copies so that it is impossible to recjg- chr;Si. Crowded into a small'sh frame nizo anything but good technique and ;t makes the head gigantic, but the fea conscientious faithfulness to copy. The ture3 and expression are very tender and still life and fruit and tlower pieces are 8pitjtua). Mrs. H. C. Hartley has some original and in each tho artistic inten- Boreno 0id ramily portrat3 and an ani tion is unobscured. The chair and mai.piece by an unknown artist, inter stool carved by Mis3 Isabella Rogers are estingin themselves and for their an still further evidence of versatility, tiquity. Mrs. Wright shows a little girl Mrs. Paul Holm's pastel portraits or and her dog labelled companions, a very Miss Elliot, Mrs. Teeters and Mrs. Camp- pieasins composition or which she is the compare these figures with the Percy bell bavq good coloring and the likeness artjgt. Mrs. Wright sends two other Moran, loaned by Mr. and Mrs. Hall of Miss Ebiot is striking but tho tech- pictures; Sunset by J. Hammeratad and tin Ferris, loaned by Mr. and Mrs. Im' . 1 ml;,..,,l To. .. .. . . lit rr. n.t ...,... ... . niqua is uissj aim wiupiiMiw. " wooaiigiu Dy w m. xraver. ane raomi hot! and the meaning of atmosphere is in the corn by Mre. I. M. Hall, is a more readi'y understood. study of two Nebraska products very well drawn and painted. Venice a water color loaned by Dr. Dajtoi, Al bert Naer artist, is good architecturally tain of Kipling's e ro Here in lite story t,ut lacking in atmosphere. Milan Ca- ty, utterly without feeling for color and of Captain's Courageous. This broLzed thcdral.St. Mark's Cathedral and tho form and the bat l of light that all ob- sailor with his hat brim trained upward Sistine Madonna loaned by Mrs. A. S. jects are immersed in. If the exhibit by the salt breeze, isanintere3tingstudy Raymond, and Cologne Cathedral, loan- does nothing more than show those who of an unfamiliar type. ed by Mrs Carl Funke are colored pho- paint, the way that others have solved The two busts by Fred L. Kimba'l of to.jraphs of these noblest si2ht3ofthe the problems or light and atmosphere JudeO. P. Mason and General John old world. Raphael's Hours b long to it is worth while. Digital facility is a M.Thayer are good likenesses first of all Mrs. McConnell. They aro copies of gift to the painter, but it is not all, . .ll.f ilia tnitKniilltA Id hmflfl Utlft 1L t .Annn Zn tl.A nnM!n n..l . - . ana seconui mo -""-i iirenra.uaui mo uuiKiioiMrimenis w nor in tact, mucn. Apprehension, an x simple. Mr. Kimball never saw Judge the Vatican, done by order or Alexander eye to see the purple transparent sha- Mason. The likeness ho has certainly VI. His successor, Julius II, on ac- dows and a soul to reel the characteristic $ obtained he got from many photographs C0Unt ot the terrible poisonings for and permanent in people and landscapes f 1 m V.;nta nnd PritieiSmS recieved irkinh thn Rnrrrian Tuinan-io r.orn..:U. .1 a- mL ana iiuui hi" nuii.u .Uv -v.b.uU ,a,.u lu, icsiuubiuii;, aro iuo pre-requ isiies 01 a pnin rer. a nose from Judge Mason's family and legal which took place in these appartments, of us who lack large vision and sympa- H. W. BROWN Druggist and Bookseller. Wtiltlne'a Fine Stationery and Calling Cards 9 9 9 I 127 S. Eleventh Street, k A PHONE 68 VS''WS The ideal head of Topsy is the best in work manship. A mysterious head of a Skip per labeled Disko and painted by Mrs Brown completis tho list of contribu tions by local artists. Disko is the cap- There were all kinds of pictures in this exhibit, good, very good, bad, ex ecrable and indifferent. Some examples of local industry indicate a digital fncili- noaooi)ui)((Ma. r Nor ECONOflW For Shoes that wear and are worth more ' than they cost you, ' trv us. Our cut prices beat ail discounts. 1 ROGERS 1043 O St. cfr9nmoino J