FROM BEE.

California School of Fine Arts,
Dear Paintbox:— San Francisco, May, 1930.

Almost a year has passed since the first graduation. That glorious day—
mad day—bad day for some of us; that day of day for us who were
graduates—an exciting, thrilling, but somehow sad day, too. To leave
behind all the other happy days of art school life and find ourselves at
last, after four years fraught with struggles, disappointments and
exstacies, wonderful friendships and Students Club teas of currant buns
and doughnuts, to find ourselves at last out in the cold "crool' world,
diploma firmly clutched in hand, portfolio under trembling arm! Then
comes the horrible nostalgia for the old familiar hallways and, yea, even
the stairs of the school board offices.

Almost a year has passed, soon another graduation day will be upon us—
which | hope to grace with a superior and conventional "graduates grin,"
providing | can tear myself away from the California sunshine, the lure of
Carmel-by-the-Sea, and the galleries.

The galleries are a joy forever to the art students, and always well
patronized by an interested and open-minded public who take great
pride in them and the works exhibited therein. (Vancouver take notice!)

The Beaux Arts Gallerie has just closed a loan exhibition of modern
masters—paintings and sculpture by such well-known moderns as Matisse,
Diego Rivera, Picasso, Van Gough, Cezanne, Gauguin, Bourdelle, Mes-
trovic, Chana, Arlaff and many others—all in the original, of course, and
all privately owned and loaned by citizens of San Francisco.

Then there are the East and West galleries in the Women's Building, the
Bohemian Club exhibitions, Cavorshires "Little Gallery'"—-where one can
see all the woodcuts of Rockwell Kent, who, by the way, is a former
student of the California Fine Arts; and where all the reproductions of
the modern masters can be viewed. The San Francisco Art Association
Galleries are out at the school itself and are rehung with new exhibitions
every two or three weeks. The S. F. Women Artists’ exhibits are held
there also. The departmental stores show their interest too by putting

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