The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 21, 1900, Page 9

THE SUNDAY CALL. [ B ( ) B THE Rt Ben aare INGoLDEN GATE Park’ * FIsHERMAND WHARF By RTHUR. T AT THE WS, Representative Artists De- Clare the Time Kas Now Qome When Nature 15 0 Be 'mmortalized at Home ~AN FRANCISCO is 111([ reveled only in the dreams of Ital- »J m picturesque spot on| ian skies or Alpine steeps and re- eart declare her vepre-| fused to hear the public’s oft re- sentative artists. But time was,| peated question, “Why not im- and not so long ago either, when|mortalize nature at home?” these same masters of the bru:hi It is a problem that one and al} SoNs "THE WESTERN SEA WALL OF S AN FRANCISCO R .D.uYE LLAND THE WATE R FRONT "TALAMEDA OAKS B WM. KEITH "Two NATIVE BY THEODORE WoRES —— 2 Sems or IHrt Contributed by Local Painters have refused to discuss until, sati- ated twith the scenes of foreign lands, they have returned to say, “San Francisco will become the twentieth century art center of the world.” Why? Because nature has offered with a prodigal hand | mountain and sea together; sand dunes, Chinatown, and the bay, and, most of all and above all, the true sentiment of this city’s mys- terious charm—the fog. “It is a benediction of light and color” that poet and artist have tried to ex- press. “San Francisco has never been painted,” declares Arthur F.| Mathews. “The high lifting fog, the unity of atmosp , the bigness of it, can be equaled nowhere on earth. “If Fishermanw's wharf were placed in Venice painters from every nation would make it a spe- cial study. Fisherman's wharf with its background of Telsgraph Hill ss worthy of perpetuation.™ “I like the water front,” soy® Chris be. with interesting siubje The ol lumber scows, the tugboats, th@ deep, rich s (0 the minge ling of ippeal to ma Alae particular beauty, for I usa nature as a con IN THE PARK B HeN® Y RASCHE | canvas, but the oaks of Alamedo actory models.” “Give me the western sea wall of San Francisco,” says R. D. Yelland. ere you feel life, sound and color.” C. Chapel | the shore line and finds nothing so are y miost sat dson is also fond ofl interesting as the rocks at “Land’s End.” | H'R- B er has a penchand | for old huts on North Be Theodore Wores spent five years in the Orient and returned to Sam Francisco to find a perfect gardem of Oriental bloom right here i Chinatoun. “If you the Or 7 cisco,” Mr. | nt loc He f Gold- “God has | en Gate Park of colors om our | mixed a pale lgrtut shore by the west sea unsur< passed in variety of tome elses lwhon.':