8 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
ly poised, as she hurries forward in the hunt. A stag re- 
clines at the base of the panel. An atmosphere of light- 
ness, buoyancy and vigor characterizes the design. Mrs. 
Ladd’s bronzes to the number of 40 were shown in the 
Gorham gallery, New York, in 1913, and to the Penn- 
sylvania Academy. The Corcoran gallery in Washington, 
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Academy 
in New York and the South American exposition have 
received her bronzes. 
The vitality and vigor which are expressed in Mrs. 
Ladd’s sculpture are also expressed in the two books 
which she has written, one of them published in London, 
where she is best known as an author. She keeps up a 
correspondence with friends in all parts of the world, 
and reads a great deal, often in French, German, Italian 
or Spanish, besides giving a personal oversight to her 
two children and her home. If asked how she can do 
all this she will probably say: “I rise usually at 5 o’clock 
in the morning, always by 6 o’clock, and I live simply, a 
normal, well-regulated life.”—Christian Science Monitor. 
North Shore Artist’s Haven 
C. Calusd, Armenian Painter, Pays Tribute to Resort Section 
POELZING the North Shore is what C. Calusd, an 
Armenian artist, says every artist visitor to this 
section should do when he visits the New England coast. 
Mr. Calusd opened an exhibition of his paintings in Man- 
chester at Central street this week and the admirable col- 
lection has been visited by many lovers of paintings the 
last few days. 
Mr. Calusd is enthusiastic about the topography of 
the Atlantic coast and particularly of New England and 
the North Shore. “After travel- 
ing for twenty years in all parts 
of the world,’ says Mr. Calusd, 
“T have never seen such a delight- 
ful combination of Nature’s glories 
served up to the artists as I have 
along the famous North Shore of 
Massachusetts. The shores of 
Manchester abound in subjects for 
the artist’s brush. I wonder that 
this little picturesque summer re- 
sort town has not been placed on 
more canvases. And as to Glou- 
cester—none of the Oriental ports 
which I have visited have ever of- 
fered to me the really beautiful 
settings with which this famous 
fishing port has greeted me.” 
Mr. Calusd’s specialty is mar- 
ine paintings and prior to coming 
to this country his themes 
were principally worked out from 
Oriental subjects. On coming to 
America he found a fertile field 
for canvases of this type and 
the North Shore has proved 
a veritable Mecca for his brush. 
Many mornings before the sun rises in the heavens 
find Mr. Calusd somewhere on the rocky shores of Glou- 
cester harbor sketching or scanning the Manchester shore 
for some new subject. 
A most interesting painting ito North Shore people 
is the snatch of Manchester scenery which Mr. Calusd 
has wielded with his brush. It shows a scene at the wharf 
in the inner harbor in the center of the town. The gentle 
bend of the shore line, with the dull, yet poetic, coloring 
of a barge at rest in the process of unloading, forms a 
theme of more than passing interest. It is but indicative 
of the possibilities of the Manchester shore for the marine 
artist and the lover of picturesque scenery. 
Since his advent into this country, Mr. Calusd has 
made a name for himself in painting American subjects. 
Who could imagine that poetry could be symbolized in 
A MANCHESTER SCENE 
the decrepit wharves of Chelsea or of the shore line on 
the Charles river overlooking the Back Bay residential 
district. Mr. Calusd has done just this,—he has made 
of the bleak and naked wharves of Chelsea a living thing, 
a rythmic fantasy in oils,—at the same time being true 
to Nature, avoiding exaggeration, denoting a singular ex- 
cellence of color and linear effect and, withal, a quite per- 
fect study of these quaint wharves as they really are. 
A painting of comparative diminutive size which 
shows Mr. Calusd’s powers of 
differentiation in subject matter 
and his undoubted versatility is a 
canvas which he aptly calls “Old 
Code.” It is a picture of two 
fighting game cocks anticipating 
each other’s movements prepara- 
tory to fighting for the prize, the 
gaily feathered hen. It is rich in 
color and strangely true to nature. 
It demonstrates that Mr. Calusd, 
when he was assembling the can- 
vas, had in mind the ancient legend 
of the first race of man fighting 
his adversaries for the woman he 
wished to make his wife. The 
picture is a favorite with all who 
see Mr. Calusd’s exhibition of a 
score of paintings. 
Everyone who sees Mr. Cal- 
usd’s marine subjects admires the 
faithful texture of his paintings of 
water scenes. There is an intangi- 
ble something about the very sub- 
stance of the water in the paint- 
ings which bespeaks naturalness. 
The artist will attribute this to the 
poetry and feeling with which he treats the subject. The 
viewer of the paintings is convinced to a certainty that it 
is not only the thorough absorption of the painter in his 
subject, but a mastery of the technique of his art which 
required years of training. Unlike some canvases which 
one sees in the many notable galleries of the large cities 
there is a pleasing transparency of the water views by 
Mr. Calusd that is convincing. | 
“Night on the Bosphorous” shows a soft-toned in- 
spiration of Constantinople at night. The stately minarets 
and spires on the ancient mosques pierce the somber black- 
ness of the Oriental sky. A soft light creeps from the 
many windows of the huddled buildings on shore and 
casts an irridiscent glamour on the murky waters and 
the Bosphorous. The picture is not somber in the sense ~ 
