. The Argonaut . h horse eager, pant-ing, straining, and struggling for pictures are to be taken to Chicagoand New York for exhibition. This is thefirst time that a collection of paintings rep-resenting the best in California art has beentaken East. Baldwin Piano on the Baldwin piano, though enjoying a na-tional reputation and being well known topeople of the Pacific Coast as the piano ofPugno, De Pachmann, Sembrich, Eames, andother celebrated artists, has heretoforebeen little represented here. Now, at last, Baldwin & Co. have established officesand salesrooms in th
. The Argonaut . h horse eager, pant-ing, straining, and struggling for pictures are to be taken to Chicagoand New York for exhibition. This is thefirst time that a collection of paintings rep-resenting the best in California art has beentaken East. Baldwin Piano on the Baldwin piano, though enjoying a na-tional reputation and being well known topeople of the Pacific Coast as the piano ofPugno, De Pachmann, Sembrich, Eames, andother celebrated artists, has heretoforebeen little represented here. Now, at last, Baldwin & Co. have established officesand salesrooms in the James Flood Building,where a fine line of Baldwin pianos and pianoplayers may be seen. Mr. William E. Brown,direct representative of the factory, has beenplaced in charge. Artistic Individuality in is surely becoming one ofthe attributes of jewelry demanded by dis-criminating persons. That this is so, andbecoming more and more the case, is evi-dent to even a passing observer. It is not. May Mott-Smith Bird. too much to say that the pioneer and chiefexponent of artistic jewelry on our Coastis Mrs. May Mott-Smith Bird, of San Fran-cisco. Mrs. Bird does not claim that shehas been the originator of the idea that arevolution was needed in jewelry. Shehas been preceded by such artists as Cas-tellani Colonna, Lalique, and others, andin her studies abroad she has drawn fromthem artistic ideas, inspiration, and enthu-siasm. However, her own imaginative gen-ius is allowed free scope in the forming of her designs. She buys all her gems, and hercreations frequently are suggested to her onfirst seeing the precious stones. Mrs. Bird has sought to bring back thatwhich was excellent in the models of theancients, and has revised them to meet therequirements of the modern fashions. Shehas endeavored to cultivate in people a de-sire for simplicity in form, a dignity and ?richness in the selection of their ornaments, 1a harmony in the tones and combinations ofcolor in both
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