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Carlsen, an artist exceedingly
able to show the student what
to see and how to see it. The
history of the achievement of
some of the best of the present-
day painters in California be-
gins with recording the fact that
they began their study with
Carlsen. After these years of
work, Rose went to Paris, and
spent several seasons with Dou-
cet, Constant and Lefebvre.
The young American was most
fortunate, he had two pictures
hung on the line at his first
Salon, and he received Honor-
able Mention when lie was
twenty-six. With several other
notable successes to his credit,
he returned to the United States,
and exhibited in both the east

and west After marrying, Rose returned with his the incentive and enthusiasm which
wife to Paris. She was a student and very sue- Theodore Robinson, who was among the first of
cessful in another line. For eleven years while the Americans to return home with the deter
they resided in France, she was the highest paid mination to make known the gospel of feht-
woman-artist, of her kin* m the world. For eight fleeting light, and its perplexing problems Rose
years of the eleven, the Roses studio and garden had known the stragglings of the it '
adjoined that of Monet. With this knowledge of Lawton Parker, Richard Miller and "T'
the art life of Guy Rose, one understood how his Year after year, while there, he had paintedand

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CARMEL COAST BY GUY ROSE

ive,

_ . . t „ j Uprnme perfectly natural exhibited. He made it his great effort to stn

French experience had Decowc y _

. , , - , t „ i,„ hnrl returned to America to work and to see.

with him, and how he haa icLuii , .

.... • +i.„t ,vou d enable him to Roses brush work is conservative; it never

with the virtuosity tnat wuuiv. , , . .

I ' elf to any circumstance which might obtrudes itseli upon the observer, nor does it dis-

acap imse wr>rked in France with tract him. The man is able to keep himself well

come his way. Kose nau .

J in the background. He paints

'off point lobos'_______, what he has to say without the

aggressive lirst-person-singular
of many of the moderns. He
uses the Impressionist's palette,
he benefits by his thorough un-
derstanding of their method.
But, like Theodore Robinson,
he studied them that he might
know their art, he labored with
it that he might evolve his own
technique, his own manner of
expression. Consequently he
uses his knowledge consistently
in the work that comes from his
easel, greatly to the advantage
of what he has to say. While
the character of Rose's work is
frequently most delicate, and in
many instances his subjects are
more or less poetical, fanciful
and suggestive of moods, there

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