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
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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
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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-
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