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Title: What pictures to see in America
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855-1933
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Publisher: New York, J. Lane Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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but ismet by A panther light and swift exceedingly.He thinks to return but 46 WHAT PICTURES TO SEE The time was the beginning of the morning,and all nature is astir. A lion comes, He seemed as if against me he were coming,With head uplifted and with ravenous hunger. And a she-wolf, that withal hungeringsSeemed to be laden in her meagerness. Dante now gives up the ascent, but says, While I was rushing downward to the lov/lands,Before mine eyes did one present himself. It is Virgil. He has come to guide him tohis beloved Beatrice, where, he says, With her at my departure I will leave thee. When James Abbott McNeil Whistler(1834-1903), in his Gentle Art of MakingEnemies, said, As music is the poetry ofsound, so is painting the poetry of sight, andthe subject matter has nothing to do with har-mony of sound or color, he no doubt gavethe keynote to his religion in art. But whenwe come to consider the portraits of hisMother, Carlyle, Little Rose of LymeRegis, and The Master Smith of Lyme f^
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Fig. 12—Blacksmith of Lyme Regis. Whistler. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts. BOSTON 47 Regis, we are not sure that he told the wholetruth of his religion. Surely the character ofhis sitters as the subject matter is just asimportant in these pictures as is his harmonyof color. We admit that not often wasWhistler interested in people per se, but whenhe was, who could or did show greater insightinto their character? Look at the folded arms of the Blacksmithof Lyme Regis (Fig. 12). Was ever a smithymore sure of his strength? We could say ofthis man, He earns whateer he can;And looks the whole world in the face,For he owes not any man. It is possible, however, as we study carefullythe sideways glance of the master smiths eyes,that Whistler is also peering out of those pu-pils and with that baffling hint of mysteriousunderstanding that held even his creditors atbay. The closer we observe the works of themaster painter the more convinced we are thatin each work he has left a vital, living part

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