The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 5, 1896, Page 15

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1896. 15 R 2 like sup- 1t of heaven, rocks that rise ng the shores and in the rfrown d v on the vain 7.7 4 ‘ coast of Monterey; all fields for the painter where new fancies continuously arise ana | new beauties appear in endless procession. | The wild flowers of this State are no- | where equaled for beauty and variety. In | | the spring of the year, the country’s val- | leys and hillsides look as if they had been | carpeted with green and then profusely | covered with flowers of every color and | hue. Mingled with wild grasses and foli- | age, one may find, within a short distance, | ists in this West- an( A at expense. ern country are freed, of course, from the menace of severe storms that often sur- | prise the Fasi even in the months of sum- mer, and are therefore fivored by our le mat I'ney are often com- d to trav ted mountain elimb camp in the =5 EL CAPITAN FROM A BEND IN THE MERCED, BY HUGO FISHER. Is of snow e flowers never die, balmy other allurements ail e the Golden State a readers with sketches, chiefly of of California, done by LL to-da bou e battalions | | travel. open air and brave many dangers in pur- suit of their ideals. In such journeys an artist is burdened with more baggage than any trooper carries. - He must have his chair with him, and the sketching um- brella that is indispensable, his easel, color box and other skete! material, besides the everyday necessary accouterments of He must seek the best view, and SHASTA FROM CAST] MOUNT LE LAKE, BY H. J. BLOOMER. some of theleacing artists of the West. visited the particular re- e scenes are located can fail to appreciate tie faithfulness of the sketches. In the maj tances the sketches represent tk cial study of the subjicts by the re . The names of y of the e known AN INDIAN FAMILY, in order to arrive at that important con- clusion, he must do an almost inconceiv- able amount of climbing. The original sketches are the actual keys to the paint- ings, and artists mever like to part with them, as they are often understood only by the artist himself. The smallest sketch ometimes exceedingly expensive. | ivery artist has his hobby, if so it may | BY HENRY RASCHEN. to more than California fame. Infact,the artists of the West are producing work that must in tume bring recognition from the classic schools of the Old World. The ed by nature ultimately to be the favorite abiding place of art and | y d song. The peonle, asa rule, 1dea of the duiffic instances in obtaining sketches. be termed. Some prefer the mounlflins.‘ some the marines, some the marshlands, some interior others have the wild- flower fanc, 1d others again mirror human face and form till the canvas seems endowed with life, | flowers that together would exhibit as | pow. | There is a good deal of glacial action there, | | laughter of the maidens, the echoes re- | relate, I witnessed with my own eyes the | lie between Golden Gate Park and the sea. | which fits like a charm the delightiul‘ many colors as there are tints in the rain- | In some of our valleys, native wild flow- | ers may be found at all seasons of the year. Flower painting has been followed, as a ) specialty, chiefly by the lady artists, who take refined pleasure in this species of | work. | Many beautiful California flower paint- ings have won delighted commendation at the art exhibitions. Asinso many other ways, California vies with all the world in | the richuess and charms of her infinitude | of native blooms. { The pen-and-ink sketch by William Keith treats of one of that well-known art- ist’s favorite subjects, ““The North Fork of | the American River.” In the distance are | what are frequently called the Keith Alps. The elevation of the highest point is 9000 | feet. There are patches of snow all about the peak and rocks cropping out here and there. Cedar and other trees abound. | [ the rocks being smoothed and polished | over, and then there are chaparral spots and croppings of lava and conglomerate rock of sandstone. To the rear of these | mountains, at the left of the sketch, lies | Lake Tuboe. Near by are Soda Springs, | and the place is much visited in the sum- ‘ i mer time. ever made on | declared Hu pe painter, “‘was re- nt on the Merced River in | iley. There isa bend in | “The greatest impre my mind by any , the landsca ceived from a Yosemite V. il the Merced, not far from El Capitan, and | PO i ) from there, I believe, one obtains as grand | i S e 3 % & | kit N i V a picture as eye could desire. A deserip- 7 \fi&"h‘}' ‘d ; Aak \, tion of this , that I read in New York | = U SeySE yetisuey IS0 DelUit ko iirip o AN OLD LOGGER’S CABIN IN THE REDWOODS, BY .. P. LATIM the famous valley. There is a curious | coinei nce in this regard. seription which I read that, while gazing at the grand panorama, a hali-dozen Ind the wate: In the the author said and the ants. The former met the laiter on a sunny day. The ants were busily car- n maidens approacned | rying food to their abodes, and the grass- s unged into the | hopper laughed at them for laboring so Merced's cool tide, ving a morning | hard when the sun was bright and no bath. It was a thoroughly Ca want existed. “You may not langh so ght to behold these children of nature, | hard when rainy days come,” suggested the experience, he feels at home in portray ing a stampede of stock in a hailstorm “you do not have to urge norses. The storm drives them crazy and they become unmanageable. | and the cowboys bave their hands full a AMERICAN THE NORTH FORK OF THE RIVER, BY WILLIAM KEITH. with such a background, and it must have the ants, When the rainy days came the | awakened poetic fancy to hear the care-free grasshopper was compelled to go out in the rain to find food, and he regretted his lack of foresight. The ants could laugh at hiy such a time in handling their own horses. | The steeds ride up on the bit and nearly pull the driver’s arms off. In a hailstorm the horses all by common instinct flee pre- predicament while they comfortably | cipitately from the storm and run with the rested in their well-cupplied houses. In wind. I bave seen hailstones two inches the sketch the grasshopper must have | thick in my experience 1n the Northwest,”” bounding from the cliffs. Singalar to very same scene of which I read the de- scription in the East. I sketched it, and painted from that scene a large picture.” The sketch by Mr. Fisher is a reproduc- | tion of his favorite scene in the Yosemite. | The falls are seen in the distance thunder- | ing over the cliffs from heaven. In the middle-ground are sugar pines and other kinds of trees and all sorts of shrubbery, which reflect themselves in the clear waters of the river below. Thebend in the Merced referred to is to the right of El Capitan. Whoever is at all familiar with sights on the ocean beach will recognize in the pen sketch by A.Joullin the sanddunes that | The monotony of the sandy waste is some- | what relieved by patches of weeds and sagebrush, creeping vines and bunches of | long grass nearly as high as a man. Mr. Joullin’s sketch is a faithful picture of these sanddunes, Carl Jonnevold, a marine artist, has made many paintings of scenery on the Northern California coast. The sketch shown by him on this page represents a view from the sea of thecoast near Mendo- cino. The waves are dashing against rocks that rise like fortresses from the deep. The pen-and-ink sketch of an Indian family, by Henry Raschen, depicts a char- acteristically Western scene. It is drawn from lite and the originals are to be found in Mendocino County. The Indian hut is made of redwood bark: the boy is playing with a chipmunk, while his mother looks on interestedly, and an aged squaw is pre- paring a meal inside the rude habitation, A dog comfortably dozes at the door of the but. The picture is an effective one. SCENE ON TH NORTH CALIFORNIA COAST, BY CARL JONNEVOLD. | | | Jaughed at the ants for carrying umbrelias | when the sun was shininz. ling ¢ cou Mount Shasta is shown as it appears Rain overtak- | from the immediate vic nity of Castle shopper and ants, the latter, of | Lake, in the sketch made by H. J. B! ave license to langh. *“The Grasshoppe s the figurative title i : J. J. Rorphiuro followed the adventurous | tain obtainable. Mr. Bloomer telis an in- sketch by Arthur F. Matthews. Every-|life of a cowboy on the Northwestern | teresting story of the first sight of Shasta. vouy knows the story of the grasshopper | plains for nine years. Having undergone | About twenty-five years ago, being disap “In a hailstorm,” observed Mr. Rorphuro, | It is extremely exciting | have no acequate | lific of selections, ties met with in\many | west are Such ! Kings River Canyon, Lake Tahoe, the There are localities that are forever pro- Some of these in the Shasta, Castle Crags, Yosemite, THE SAND DUNES, BY JOULLIN. | trees, growing bigger and | day. oomer, ; | who deems this the best view of the moun- | pointed in a professorship on account of his youth, he started out into the wilder- ness to study nature. He followed a pic- turesque trail through the McCloud and Pitt River country. and had a narrow es- cape irom hostile red men who were then suspicious of all whites. In fact. the Mo- doc war was only a year in the future at that time. The Indians. mistook Mr. Bloomer’s camera and drawing utensils for a surveyor's outfit, and the explanation vation El Moro Rock seems only a stone’s throw 1n the distance, while in reality it is about nine miles away. Mr. Robinson has made for THE CarL a pencil sketch from the original. WE HAVE A NEW SMILE. Its Origin According to an English Authority. In an age in which so many things are | Santa Cruz Mountains, and has made the | cialty. AN P HORSES IN A HAILSTORM, BY J. J. RORPHURO. was made with difficulty. Government sur- veyors were in very bad repute with the red men. “My first view of Skasta,”” said Mr. Bloomer, “was from Red Bluff. It wasa clear spring day and the mountain seemed to hang like a wee cloud on the horizon. Journeying on, it kept looming up over the bigger every It required a week’s walking to get to the foot of Shasta. In company with old man Sisson, the biz-hearted founder of the town that bears his name, I went up as near the top as where the pines are dwarfed in the rarefied atmosphere. I new it was not to be supposed that we should escape the new smil Like many other such inventions, it comes across the Atlantic from America, and, like the baby pose of ten or twelve years ago, itattacks all sorts and conditions of women. The wide and careless smile, more a grin than a smile, which is the mark of those who let themselves be swayed by an ili- considered mirth to the detriment of their onal appearance, has quite gone out of The new rcise is a slow and nsion of the lips. It is poetic, great things, such as alife stood by the ordinary run of and hints not unde: MORRO ROCK, BY C. D. ROBINSON, ~ ®pent a year near that mountain, making | folk, a heart yearning for love and other sketches and doing other congenial work, | kindred subjects, and is calculated to lay but I never found another view of Sha low at the first fire all but the most bu- equal to that from Castle Lake. The great | colic and heartless of mon. peak, roseate in the morning sun, made a | And yet the origin of the new smile is by sublime effect and the picture composed | no means so poetic; it is merely an affair perfectly. of dentistry when its springs are analyzed. “A Cabin in the Redwoods” makes still | [!! America as we know from books of another distinctively Californian sketch, | tF2Vel, women are forever sucking candy, ¢ isnctive y | £5e"Ch | with the result that their teeth suffer, and, Thelernes Lob, Tetimer, Doy Socubmany |/ ongh the/qantists, of the States ave sac. summers among the giant redwoods of the | S1OU&Y he dentists of the States are sec- they cannot repair the ravages of the sweet-stuff shops. Therefore, it is not al- ways safe to smile with effusion, for it may be that a tooth is imperfect, though not vet ready for extraction, The art of therllew smile consists in con- cealing the affec ed tooth, and only show, artistic study of redwood scenery a spe- The sketch published to-day is a pleasing specimen of work on redwood | scenery. A scenic wonder of San Luis Obispo County is El Moro Rock, rising out of the | F MR THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANTS, BY ARTHUR F. MATHEWS. shallow bay only a short distance from the | ing those of its companions which will bear town of Moro. Itisin appearance like a | momentary inspection. In fact, the new castle, and the waters play all around its smile, like so many of its contemporaries, base. It standsin solitary grandeur, and |is a sham, and the only good thing that may be distinetly seen from a long dis- | can be said in its favor 1s that it is not tance. While C. D. Robinson, the marine painter, was in San Luis Obispo County a few years ago, he made a sketch of this rock from Mount Benton, on Baron von Schroeder’s Eagle ranch. From that ele- | 1 worn by the new woman.—London Globe. R There are 12,000,000 silk hats made ane rually in the United Kingdom, worth four million sterling.