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Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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w, in Mr. Marshall O. Robertss gallery, presents a foreground of beauti-ful deer, a high mountain in the background, and a dense fog in the centre.Colonel Rush C. Hawkins bought his In the Autumn Woods, which was inthe Academy Exhibition of 1878, on the south wall of the south room. Cat-tle coming home through the trees are startled by some slight thing; thewhite steer has thrown his head up; above and beyond him is a faint-bluesky, where fleecy clouds show themselves through a loose network of branchesand russet leaves. Almost all of Mr. Harts pictures are large, and he makes but ten ortwelve of them in a year. One of his latest is an expression of these linesof Whittier, a poet in whom this artist delights: Through dust-clouds rising thick and dun,Like smoke of battle oer us,Their white horns gleaming in the sun,Like shields and spears before us. The cattle are accompanied by a real drovers dog, and behind them are twodrovers on horseback. We have engraved A Summer Day on the Boquet
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12 CATTLE GOING HOME.From a Painting by James M. Hart. p. 50. • JERVIS MENTER. 51 River and Cattle going Home. The former is a pastoral scene in EssexCounty, New York. Some cattle, very skillfully grouped, arc drinking orstanding in a stream, which the heat and drought of summer have very muchreduced ; beyond them lie or browse a flock of sheep, two of which are near ascarlet shawl. On one side of the river is a luxuriant forest-growth ; on theother side a row of stately and flourishing elms, carefully and happily drawn,even to minute details. The sun fills the scene with warmth and brightness.This picture is in the gallery of the late Mr. Alexander T. Stewart. The otherone, Cattle going Home, shows cows fording a brook in a rich atmosphereof approaching sunset. Trees pleasant to see — maples, tamaracks, white-birches, and others—decorate either bank of the narrow stream. The per-spective is far-reaching and excellent, and the colors of the clouds, throughwhich the light

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