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Mmmm iflT if vol uVul SA2T PKAOISCO GAIi STENDAY JXJUY 23 1893 TWEOTY PAGES KO nr I JmMmwmWiri Hod saBudmam JK ra RfifflB fWSSWSMifc TAa lsrt OsHpH Jmww presidents Mrs Helen Lavery Rev treasurer Miss Nellie Murtha secretary Miss Sylvia Rey Miss Harmione Key Miss Stella Austin Miss Clara Fisher Mrs Mathilde Eggers sHampe and Mrs tteien tfosqui Treat Bin Francisco is proud of its many fcwutlful and talented women and is fWii with reason Part of that reason Hula their beauty and the attractions of tnsir physical charms but many ol them hare also won more substantial recognition of their artistic Ekill and mental endowment Is the literature ol recent years not a names of San Francisco women hare fcen rated by publishers as those of suc jcMiful authoresses but perhaps a greater xaeasure ol success has been won by pen til and brush than by the pen Be that it may the fact remains that San Francisco and for that matter the State las no reason to find fault with the re slt already attained by women both in art ind literature TFhileof course in all communities like thisti here will always be found a large italnine contingent interested inadilet Unt fashion in the lighter and less am litioui phases of art It is perhaps not an exaggeration to assert that nowhere can toere be found in so large a proportion women earnestly devoted to an endeavor to excel in art work than here That may sound like brag but it is the truth and plehiyoi proof would be forthcoming if it were not so evident The Art Association now so magnificently boused has twen a potent factor in developing the love for art which is far bor jWidetpreadn Ujecommanftj thin may be atfirst glance appar tti Everything here from purely physical standpoints such as cli cate topographical and geographical Varoondingi favors In an unusual degree tis irident of art Superb marine views 1n spread at our feet while sylvan re trut purling brook or mountain fastness ii within easy reach A nominal irpnie will carry the artist Into tie heart of the forest almost virgin or to regions of eternal snow With such advantages It is no wonder that sketching from nature has had such a fascination for those here who have time for health jfuj outdoor pleasures and talent enough to make its cultivation worth while Seven years ago a few of the fair De Signers conceived the idea of forming a tlub for the purpose of adding to the routine and drill jpf the school the romance and fun and helpful work of outdoor sketching SThis was felt to be absolutely necessary for Wednesday of each week was the only time pupil of the school had at tieif command or practice and study la this delightful branch of art To thiak was to plan to plan was to girls ate and drank Milk butter eggs bacon corned beef and cabbage hash hardtack anything everything even quail on toast four or five times av day made up for the wear and tear of country For several years past Mrs Nellie Stearns Goodloes exquisite pencil and pen and ink sketches have attracted marked attention from lovers and connoisseurs of art In San Francisco Two years ago she with Bruce Porter made the drawings for a calender called Wayside Inns on a Years Journey which proved a popular publication by the Charming Auxiliary of the First Unitarian Church of San Francisco At present she is engaged on drawings for another calendar for the same society to be issued at the Christmas holidays For some time she has been contributing illustrations for the CaJifomian IUuttraied Magazine Her work in oil is broad and vigorous and strong in color Mrs Helen Lavery Hey one of the medal pupils of the School of Design has made quite a reputation in flower painting her roses being especially good Mrs Mathilde Eggers Hampe does good work efficient member of the club Enthusiastic and devoted to its interests she is regarded by the club as one of its pillars Her art work is excellent and full of promise She is first bandurria of the club and plays with much spirit and freedom Miss Clara Fisher does excellent work in water color and has excellent taste in floral decoration being one of Miss Mary Bates most artistic helpers Two of the original members although at first art students are more musical than art devotees Mrs A Treat nee Bos nui besides being the violinist for the Sketch Club is first violin of the Saturday Morning Orchestra Miss Hermoine Hey is a violoncellist in both organizations plays the guitar and possesses a charming contralto voice The honorary memDers are airs Aioertine iianaau Wheelan Mrs Mary Ingalsbe Bradford Miss Mary BatesMiss Lillie Eggers Mrsl Wheelan is well known through her illustrations for St Nicholas and other Eastern periodicals One among many of her efforts is The Ancient Mariner and another is On Lottie Feast which was reproduced in London This dainty bit of work depicts a procession of cupids bearing with them the provisions for the feast Two of the foremost bear upon a pole a steaming teakettle another pulls an unwilling rabbit by the ears and the procession is closed by a cupid riding on a turtle One of her late productions which will probably be published is Love Leading the Children of All Nations Cupid holds the leading strings and following him are typical babies of different nations dressed in their national costumes which in somelnstances are exceedinglyscnty especially in the case of the little darkey who has dropped fe rein and is stooping to regain it The picture is made up of charming figures such as the curly haired American baby the French the German childand the queer little Indian pappoose who brings up the rear Mrs Wbeelans work is strikingly original and evinces a rare quality of talent and an imaginative quality that reminds ne strongly of an older artist Church of Eastern fame Miss Mary Bates is known to all Califor nians through her peculiar liheof decora live floral work of which she is the pioneerpioneer Starting unaided through her own effortsshehas increased her business so that she now has a fine workshop and employs not one but often fifteen girls She was chosen unanimously by the California Slate Commission to do the decorative work in the California building at the Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago Mrs Mary Ingalsbe Bradford is a woman of enterprise and great ability in house decoration She was for years a designer for wood engraving A number of years ago she formed a partnership with Miss Dora Martin to carry on a business in house decoration Soon alter this one of the girls was so unfortunate as to aprain her ankle The others were unwilling to leave her behind while off on their various expeditions of pleasure so one conceived the brilliant idea of utilizing an ancient wheelbarrow that stood neglected and despised in a corner of the garden Two of the most muscular members were appointed to supply motive power The trial trip was awaited with much eagerness by all but the sufferer Her anticipations were not of unmixed joy There were visions of deep ruts and a helpless female falling into the dust and dirt But like a true Bohemian she cast out her fears and only stipulated that the first trip should be made under cover of night John Gilpins adventure pales be fore that made over the fields over sticks stones levels and hillocks With hair galore in the wind the burden bearers went bat the passenger was delivered safely at the end of the Journey This was the first of many successful trips but the old barrow broke into 4he odds and ends of the one horse shay Another must be nidi but howf Two of the number learned that a fine stout wheelbarrow stood a neighbors garden The neighbors house was undergoing repairs and was unoccupied to it was planned to get that wheelbarrow for a triporao and then return it as good as new and no one the wiser The two fair larcenists selected a dark night and a late hour They had tiptoed to within a few feet of the coveted barrow when suddenly a window went up and a man clad all in white leaned out Fear rooted them to the spot The man said In a deep unpleasantly aggressive voice What are you doing here The lantern wobbled and shook and all but fell from the skakiug fingers that clutched it What are you doing here came the dreadful voice from the window the second time more angrily than before Oh gasped the girl with the lantern we are only fooling The other in her whirl of fright and fear meekly said Why were from the 8mith cottage but forgot to add we are innocents abroad Weiy the gruff voice replied youd better be at home this time of night and not fooling around disturbing respectable people in their beds Here the window shut with a slam and the quaking girls stood not on the order of their going but went at once sneaking into the cottage with beating heartland without the wheelbarrow Altr three years at Monterey the club longed for paitureinew Santa Barbara was Chosen and in due time theirtists were pleasantly housed amid the dreamy idyls of the new found paradise Here were spent six sunny happy weeks weeks crowded full of art and pleasure the days filled with exploring and sketching quaint and picturesque spots that rewarded many an ardent search But the weeks oaWtotad trunk were packed ood bye aft a4 the eleven returned to their home wtti Joytttl recollections and fat portfolki -Up to this time the dab had led a precarious existence having bo headquarters This need wi sorely JeUaad it wm determined to hare a loe whert the members could meet for disouMiona for hart work or musical rehearsals The world over the poor artist seeks the attic some times from choice more often from necessity In this city there are many basements utilized by the profession but the Sketch Club was more lofty In its Mpira tions Through the generosity ol Gorge Tindall they were given the nee of big stable in the rear of his residence on Jack ion street between Taylor and Jones The club started rich in nothing but the possession of generous friends who coui tributed largely toward the furnishing of the place The club memben gave delightful little reception in these cozy quarters exhibit tog their art work pliying on their ban durrias and guitars and satisfying the palate as well ai delighting the eye and ear For over a year they rejoiced in this home In the meantime as matrimony was making such havoc in the ranks of the eleven it was deemed best to organize on abetter business foundation and to enlarge the membership so as to include all conscientious women art students This was done and many availed themselves of the opportunity to join a club that had commended itself to them by its harmonious life nd its earnest art work To be a member one must have studied irt under competent instruction for at least one year Shortly after reorganizing and when things looked brightest the club wat compelled to move Temporary quarters were found in another stable across the street but it wai in mournful contrast to the delightful rooms they had left It was small and flagrantly odious as lira Partington would put it The only means of access to the upper floor was cither Up an impossible ladder to reach the lower round of which was an athletic feat or through a dismal chicken yard along planks which inclined sharply and from which you stepped at your peril These quarter the club endured but a month paying 10 for the privilege Although rather disheartened they did not give up the idea of a stable fhinking it had more possibilities than the four walls of a down town studio Through the influence of Hf Charlotte Blake Brown the stable of the Castle residence on the cornet of Sutter street and Van Ness avenue was kindly placed at their disposal And here In much comfort the club made its new home Lecture courses were soon inaugurated and social afternoons became a feature being held once a month on Saturday The lectures embraced some art subject the first being a delightful Illustrated talk on etching by Mr Vickery Another on JJelsarte and posing by Mme Beaumont Once a month also a committee was appointed to compile a paper bearing on art which was to be read before the club Each member was required to exhibit at the clubs sill1 iSi III cm I uja gowns that had somehow grown far too Sxa jrftdJlaL CDfsJ tSKiCTH3 small for slender forms made buxom by st vrr jJStJ4S3cAy6Bt The sketches however crude to execu 0 vvtgpi r4 fSg ju I XOVVS rmL tion and this they must necessarily 1 rjly a SV 5fe rWSla jA have been were honest in effort and gave tj3e 1 1 7 rWtiTteY promise of better things In the falfva arvA jSx P3Jr 3tfcS49 HmiOt cation several of the same Rirls went to RMMT Jf SKP Aptos and filled the days withTard work ArSSfffI Smk A A ct A merry lot ri girls with Miss NelHe Stearns as prime mover determined to derote the two months or more pf art school vacation to outdoor sketch lags Virgil Williams gave the scheme his arty approval and when the littli band wparted they went with his enthusiastic jotdg ol encouragement and prophecy of Success iey were well equipped for the sum tter campaign New sketching umbrellas erviceable camp stools canvases upon which their maiden efforts would soon ishtarten or encouraee them pencils tP blocks they had everything to Hie their work complete and tatisfacory Among these pioneers the Only ones OMtare still members of the Sketch Club ere Mrs Paul Godloe nee Stearns Mrs Ijltttine Hey nee Lavery and Mrs Hampe nee Eggers Egress Springs Santa Clara county lilice selected for the first trip na thlthw they went full of enthusiasm dbent on hard work The Saratoga outing was a success half I cnd two thirds bard work with no aWJ nocsjnsc Hw thosa city The following year five sketcherswentto Pacific Grove and engaged a pleasant little cot tape on the shore ofthe bay Ai they vere the duly boarders they could give free vent to their high spirits without trespassiny The club was to luck in the selection of a lady as chaperon who was fully In sympathy with them and whose company was an additional pleasure The fire members of the club on this oc casion rthey might be called the original five weVe Mrs Hampe MrsVBey Mrs Goodloe Miss Nellie Murthaand Miss Stella Austin The first year Miss Eggers imparted to the other members ol the club some of her enthusiasm for music As fatigue compelled them to pat away their work at the close of the day Miss Eggers suggested music for an evening pastime i From that year on the membership gradually increased until the club numbered eleven regular and four honorary members the latter chosen because of some especial talent they possessed The regular members were Miss Nellie Treat president Miss Josephine Hyde and Mrs Nellie Stearns Goodloe Tice in landscape with water color Her husband formerly an artist on a local sews paper and herself are in New York where they follow their own lines Of art One of the shining lights of the club is Miss Josephine Hyde who has great versatility of talents As an amateur photographer she does very beautiful and artistic work and has won for herself an en viable reputation among the leading artists of the coast some of whom consider her work the best given to the public Emil Carlsen at one time director of the Art School coniidered he one of his most promising pupils and Mr KTeith has always been much interested in her work Besides her art work and photography she is an accomplished performer on the bandurria and an earnest student of the violin Miss Nellie Freat the president ol tne club and one to whom its success is largely due is a thoroughly conscientious student whose work speaks for itself A dainty little picture in the late spring exhibition from her brush depicts a green hillside shaded with trees and some geese in the foreground Miss Nellie Murtha ii a valuable and lemi annual exhibition two iketchei or pieces ol work The first of these exhibitions was heldthe first Saturday to June of this year The attendance was large and much pleasure and surprise waex pressed at the good work of the students the results showing iMity and conscientious effort It is a fact worth mentioning considering the youth of the club that seven of Iti members were exhibitors in the last artists spring exhibition The present membership is twenty seven and with the exception of five all have been or are pupils of the Art School The list of membership is as follows Honorary Mrs Albertine Randall Wbeelson Mrs Mary Ingalsbe Bradford Mrs MaryD Bates Miss LUUe Eggers Active members Miss Nerfy Treat president Miss Josephine MHyde Mrs Nellie Stearns Goodloe vice presidents Mrs Helen Larery Rey treasurer Miss Nellie Murtha secretary Miss Sylvia Rey Miss Hermione Rey Miss Stella Austin Miss Clara Ii Fisher Mm Mathilde Eggers Hampe Mrs Helen Bosqut Treat Mrs Marie Rey Sander JMisa Jessie Rodda Miss Minnie Kellogg Miss Gertrude DcrganMIss Carrie Rixford Mrs Geneve Rixford fiargeant Mrs Bertha Henlcke Taussig Miss Ermentlne Poole Mini Florence Lunborg Misa Pauline Dvozak Miss McEiroyMiss Lucia Wore Miss Kate Burgin if rs Mary William Davison Mrs Leonor Lies Xothe Mrs Bessie Ellis Stow Amovement is afoot to give fee club a permanent home in the castle on the hill now devoted to art It Is to be hoped that it will result in somei Mag for the Sketch Club Is after alL sprung from the same parent stem as the Art Association In fact the twoorganizaliOM mtf be said to overlap lor many awafatn of th Sketch Club also beloag to ae pclttfoa 2uuma Kmb.