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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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in its style, and easy in its execution. The Girl Emptying a Pitcher is a graceful,clear, and well-thought figure. The Goose Girl, engraved by Closson, belongs to a category ofpictures quite common with Shirlaw, as representing the cheery abandon of youth and animallife. They have a certain swing of composition, a sympathy for decorative effects, and an easeof treatment, that recommend them at once to the admiration of the observer. Eager for theFray, engraved by Davis, is another of this kind of pictures. The subjects are new, interesting,picturesque, and human. Their composition is harmonious and understood. They enliven thespectator with suggestions. They call for no explanation of their meaning, no apology forobscurity of intention or execution. Another style of subject very charmingly treated has anexample in Musing. This illustration is an enlarged sketch of a figure belonging to one of thedrawings made for Bryants History. The Boston exhibition contained quite a number of heads
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The Goose Girl. Engraved by W. B. Closson. — The Original in the Possession ofDr. W. P. Wesselhoeft, Boston. 72 AMERICAN ART of old people, treated with delicacy and appreciation. The comfortable dog has formed asatisfying part in a number of the artists works. The tail-piece to this article is from theSheep- Shearing. As an illustrator Shirlaw has earned an excellent reputation, though by no means satisfyinghimself with his work. This department of art has never appealed to him as one to which hecould afford to give his most thoughtful attention, principally on account of the comparativelysmall price that publishers are willing to pay for illustrations. The painter who sells his picturesreadily finds little temptation to indulge in illustration for a return that is regulated more orless by an uncertain public. Among the illustrative work that the artist has done may bementioned the serial of Roxy, published in Scribners Monthly some two years ago; the Deathof the Miser, for the ill

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