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Identifier: americanartamer01mont (find matches)
Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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THE DOLLS PARTY. DRAWN BY H. WINTHROP PEIRCE. AMERICAN ART 375 pools beneath the banks the black moor-hen lurks, or a stately heron watches for his prey. Beyondthe brook roll rich red fallows, now flushed with the pale green of growing wheat, or golden withripening grain. The farmhouse and buildings make a point of vivid color in the picture, their crudered toned down by purple shadows and soft browns and yellows among the stacks in the rick-yard.There are some suggestions for pictures in Miss Kingsleys lines of which Winthrop Peirce wouldmake delightful realities.
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Johnnys Picture. Drawn by Peirce. Tradition or trustworthy record has entwined the names of many famous personages in the annalsof Warwickshire. To mention a few of these we find that Long Compton is associated with a won-drous miracle wrought by Saint Augustine, who had been sent from Rome by Gregory the Great asmissionary to the Britons; at Long Itchington was born the great Saxon bishop, Saint Wolstan ofWorcester, who defied the Conqueror; Coventry, as every one knows, was the scene of Lady Godi-vas noble act; the deeds of the redoubtable hero, Guy, Earl of Warwick, have long magnified GuysCliff; and there is a not wholly unfounded claim that the bold outlaw Robin Hood was a native ofWarwickshire. Though we hold with the poet in saying — Oh hallowed memories of the past,Ye legends old and fair,Still be your light upon us cast,Your music on the air. 376 AMERICAN ART In vain shall man deny Or bid your mission cease,While stars yet prophesy Of love and hope and peace, we get on firm

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