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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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H. Daly, of New York. The next year he exhibited on asimilar occasion his Morning on Loon Lake, a fog-effect, deer on the right inthe water startled by wild-ducks flying up—a subject at that time novel andstriking. Mr. Hart says that he could not sell a deer-picture now ; peoplewant from him something with cattle in it. In ex-Governor E. D. Morgansgallery is A Summer Memory of Berkshire, which represented the artist atthe Paris Exhibition of 1878. The title of this picture is, for Mr. Hart, unu-sually poetic, and well describes the summer landscape in the hills of Berk-shire, Massachusetts. The Drove at the Ford has found a magnificenthome in the Corcoran Art-Gallery at Washington. The sunlight streamsthrough an opening in the trees directly upon the spectator. Friends inStormy Weather, owned by Mr. John Hoey, represents a bull protecting acow and calf on a hill-top, from which shoots up a birch-tree. Mr. John II.Sherwood has his Cows in Pasture, with trees, and a warm, bright sky.
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>E h a D 30 uI t- z 0 < a (twS2 Dto S J.AMES HCD OUGALL HART. 49 Colonel Roebling, the engineer of the East River Bridge, is the possessor ofComing out of the Shade, cattle emerging from the edge of the woods intothe sunset glow; in the foreground a pool in which are reflected the whitelegs of the nearest cow. In 1871, after painting his Under the Elms, now in the possession ofMrs. Carnochan, of New York, Mr. Hart began to feel the need of a thorouglacquaintance with cattle. He went out-doors and began to study them. Hefound them worth studying. Perhaps no artist in this country better appre-ciates the nature and the merits of oxen, or would better understand Mr.Hamertons enthusiastic eulogy of them : Who that has seen these creatureswork can be indifferent to the steadfast grandeur of their nature ? They haveno petulance, no hurry, no nervous excitability ; but they will bear the yokeupon their necks, and the thongs about their horns, and push forward withoutflinching from sunr

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