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Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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t William Beard has displayed in hiscaricatures. Although extravagant, they are not forced, and thej tell their story in so clearand logical a style that anybody and everybody can read and understand them. There is nopretension to high art in them, and the painting is of a commonplace type enough: properlyspeaking, it is not painting at all; but all that Beard pretends to do he does to perfection. The present picture, though not one of his very best, is yet fully characteristic of his treat-in 266 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. ment of his subjects. The wretched hunter, caiight by the bears, is about to get a dose of hisown medicine, unless, happily for him, the rifle in the hands of the mother of the familyshould hit her spouse, for whom, at this present moment, the fates evidently design the shot.The anxious look of the hunter, who grasps the logic of the situation more easily than hedoes the humor of it; the agonies of the dog, disgusted by the liberties taken with him by one -^^-liw
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TWIXT DAY AND NIGHT. FROM THE PAINTING BY WILLIAM J. HENNESSY. BY PERMISSION OF MESSRS, CASSELL & CO. of the cubs, and his frantic appeals to his master for help; the indifference of the other andyounger cub, who amuses himself Avith the hunters hat, and the business-like discussion ofthe affair by the two friends of the family who stand at one side like seconds in a duel, allthis is told with a rude skill that would not be easy to surpass in its way. Edward L. Henry was born in South Carolina in 1841, and showing an early leaning ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 267 toward art was sent to New York to study, and to Philadelphia, finding his way later toParis, where he studied for two years under different masters, Conrbet among them, butescaping without the slightest trace of any foreign influence on his style of painting. Foraught that appears on his canvases, he need never have left his native State. He has foundhis own subjects and has treated them in his own way. Mr. Henrys first

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