International studio (25.1905)

PANELS FOR A VILLA IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. BY LAWRIE AND ATKINS

Artists as widely known as Lowell Orson, Edward
Redheld and Harry Fenn were represented, but
the work of painters of local repute fully sustained
their position, as in the case of Mayfield, the Wood-
wards and many others. The characteristic of the
local work—of what may be called the New Orleans
school, seems to be a brilliancy of striking colour.
William Woodward showed several scenes in the
city, such as a view of Chartres Street, from Lafitte's
old shop, with a distant sight of the cathedral.
Betty McArthur, of Jackson, Miss., was repre-
sented by several negro studies, as was also John
Pemberton. Gertrude Smith contributed some
impressionistic studies of the marshes, and R. B.
Mayfield, in his Evgwfwg, showed a view
along the Levee from the bend at Jackson Square.
CHARLES WALTER STETSON, of Boston, has been
invited by the Societa dei Amatori e Cultori, of
Rome, to fill a room with his work at their annual
exhibition in the National Gallery. Most of the
fifty-six pictures shown by Mr. Stetson are recent
works done in Rome, though he is including some
of the more important canvases upon which he
was engaged in Boston previously.
A SMALL COLLECTION of paintings of church
interiors by Johannes Bosboom, has been on view
at the Beacon Street studio of Charles A. Walker,
of Boston.
THE HOUSE OF ROBERT BnuM, at go Grove
Street, New York, has finally been sold to the satis-
faction of the administrator, William Baer. Mr.
Baer refused several oSers, until he could find a
purchaser, who, he felt, would thoroughly appre-
ciate Mr. Blum's artistic home. The purchaser is
Jules Guerin, the well-known artist, who has
recently published a series of drawings of French
chateaus in the
DR. GEORGE REULiNG, of Baltimore, has re-
cently added some valuable paintings to his collec-

tion, which is one of the most notable private collec-
tions in that city. Many of his pictures came to
him from a great uncle, Privy Councillor von Abegg,
upon whom they had been bestowed by the King of
Saxony, in recompense for services during the
Napoleonic Wars. Dr. Reuling's collection now
numbers over one hundred and fifty paintings.
Miss ELIZABETH STRONG, of Chicago, who has
in hand a commission for Mrs. Archibald Freer,
returned from a long sojourn in France recently,
and before making a brief visit to California,
showed some of her work in a gallery in Chicago,
including landscapes, animal studies and portraits.
The work of this young artist is attracting no little
notice. She has studied with Van Marcke and
Raphael Collin and has exhibited in the Paris
Salon.
FOR a villa more or less classic in style, now
being erected in one of the most beautiful por-
tions of Southern California, Messrs. Lawrie &
Atkins, whose studio is at 106 West Thirtieth
Street, in this city, have modelled a series of
panels, of which four are reproduced here. The
task set these two young sculptors was a very
difficult one, namely, to translate, as it were, the
intensely northern and "Maccabre" legends of the
Morte d'Arthur into sculpture, which should
harmonize with the classic architecture of the villa
itself. Nine of the panels are set immediately
beneath an Ionic entablature and in close juxta-
position to capitals of the same order. The
dimensions of each are small, scarcely more than
three feet long, but the whole work has been done
with such a fine reticence, and in a manner so
thoroughly Hellenic, that the result can hardly
fail to be satisfactory. It will at once be noticed
that the details of costume are not those familiar
to us in, say, the Elgin marbles! The position taken
by the owner of the house, that King Arthur's
time, considered in the light of veracious history,
was no more than a final upflaring of the embers of

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