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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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ly do not begin to exhaust his resources. The beautyof art is said to lie in not being susceptible of improvement; but Mr. Beardsliterary instinct leads him to magnify the importance of his subject, and toyearn for grandeur therein, though he knows well enough that every buildingneed not be a tenrple, nor every poet a Milton ; that simplest objects are oftenmore impressive than the most complex ones, when a true man, well ecpxipped,tells us his impression of them. Lo, the Poor Indian ! presents Mr. Beard from still another point ofview. The red-man is reclining on a hill-side, his faithful dog by his side,and his eyes peering eagerly across the prairie, over which the wind is blow-ing fiercely. There is but little foreground—as little as possible—the generaltone is gray, aud the sentiment is concentrated and intense. It is not GeneralSheridans Indian, nor yet the missionary Eliots. It is the lonely, pictu-resque Indian, whom our forefathers dispossessed of his hunting-grounds, and
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THE MARCH OF SILENUS. From n Painting by William II i: at ■ p. 59. WILLI A U If. BE J /,■/>. ;g whom our philanthropists idealize and consecrate. He is ,i very nice personand very interesting—Lo, the poor Indian ! The March of Silenus is oneof Mr. Beards characteristic pictures. Silenus is a great, fat, drunken grizzlybear, followed by goats as satyrs, and other bears as bacchanalians, all ofthem treated in classic style with a rich, warm tone. The expressions f tIn-several faces are worth noticing, and the sense of inebriated revelry is strongand single. The conception has real dramatic force. To one of the UnionLeague Clubs monthly exhibitions, and also to the New Fork AcademyExhibition for 1878, Mr. Beard sent his Who-o! who-o-o ! a semicirculargroup of rabbits staring at an owl seated on a limb above them. It is freelyand deftly painted, the rabbits especially being full of life, action, and distinc-tive character. His Cattle upon a Thousand Hills is a rolling pra

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