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Munsey's
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One Year With THE COURIER
For Two Dollars
One Year With THE COURIER
For Two Dollars
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OBSERVATION.
I Continued from page 1
added that If the city needs brick
after this council goes out of ofllce the
jwrue brick can likely be had fur two
dollars' per thousand less than now,
but the contract was made with the
Des Moines brick company just the
same. It may be that there are rea
sons wby this contract for so much
more brick than we cau use or pay for
must be made, but the people who
must pay for it have not been in
formed of these reasons.
Jt
If r. Dunroy's new volume of poems ia
favorably reviewed in hut Monday'
Chicago Record at the lergth of a co!
aasa by the young Nebraskaa Mr.
Carl Smith, who edits a column in tbat
pepar. Mr. 8mith appreciates the truth
ful feeling and the philosophy in 'Corn
TaaWls," and there is reason to believe
that when the more famous ciitica of
this country read the poemi, they will
also appreciate their merit. It ia so
hard to believe that anything next door
caa amount to anything, until people at
least a thousand miles sway, say it ia
gaod, that Mr. Dunroy will probahly
have to wait the eastern verdict Then
we will in vita him with belated recogni
tion to take tbe place his merits ratitl
him to.' The time is scon coming, I hope
when this recognition will enable him to
-look back upon his Grub street expe
riences with the amusement that pain
ful experiences produce in retrospect.
The midwinter exhibit
of the Uaydon Art club in
Art Club the art gallery at the St ite
J
Haydon
preasion of yearning self-effacing
motherhood. She bas no glory of dusky
eyes and artistic draperies, no peachy,
Italian skin dimpling into lovely curves
when the baby's band touches her cheek.
But in spite of her ho-sliceas she is
thi madonna thit softens the hearts
of American men anl wamei. The
piciura would not be papular in France
but it would sat the lugubrious Eiglith
to thinking of their mofhsra and thsir
bajhtcd. Mera cobr and form and at
mosphere ciniot satisfy the Anglo Sax
on. He must be amussd or aaddaned or
horrified beforj he teals that he has his
money's worth. The popularity of
Breaking Home Ties is directly related
to our temperament rather than to
the satisfaction of any artistic longings.
Tha Village Street in Winter by Hu
bert Ue Lorma is a pictura by a painter.
The management of tin lijht which
comes from the back of the picture is
very modern. The shadow are trans -pirent
and the vibration of light is evi
dent to every onscientious spectator.
In composition aod co'or it is stimulating.
The purple turkeys and tha Shepherd
who drivea them through the snowy
attest are the center of the color schema
of bluish and piok:sh whitas. It is a
picture that tells a etiry of ths beauty of
the atmospbee and the effect of a sun
risa up an com to on place men and wo
men anl turkey i. The theme is a
paintei'a and he restricts himself to his
theme nor asks the aid of literature.
Next to DaLorme's picture ii a small
nude, Chloe. The color is as delicate as
a majflower,- The female form ia ex
quisitely modeled and the background
is unimportant but in perfect harmony.
Aftsr a day in the hatsh world this
baauty, no: insisted upon or vulgarly
tion. The plush cover is not indica'ei
but it is there in all its deep softness.
The Serpent Charmer is another work
of Urge size acd fine color but lacking
in atmosphere acd personality. Return
ing froxt Work, Mu hroom Gatheter,
and Pick'xng Roselerrtea by O. Fars'y
from hyphenrttd Belgrade Servia has
rl an color and charming composit'or,
auu although the pictures are small
they cury well. They are merely dec r
ativr, however, lacking altogether the
bravery acd perronality of The Cardinal
Gathering Flower?. "The Courier, by
Albarto Psini, ia an Arab messenger
baited at the blue tiLd wall of a Turk
ish court. He has knocked or called
ani he and his hone wait the gate
keeper. The color is clean, the compo
sition is fault'ess, and the technique is
not f ussy. When Bimol'city, clean co'or
and good tas'e characterize a picture,
the faults are only negative. In all the
decorative pictures before mentioned
there is no sentiment or poetry, bacauas
it doae not belong. It would be a mis
take and an impartinsnee it it were
thtre. The poetry in A Hit Day on the
Owean, A Mother's Cares, and Althea by
Carolina Wads inheres in the subjects
the-nselves. The artist has nit ob
t uded it. A'thei is a portrait of a
youngish woman in a brown g)wn. The
flesh tints are delicate and the expres
sion of world-peetue 1 young womanhood
is well rendered. The Money Changer
by Lao BruLin is hard as a lithograph.
In color it ia an olive green, and the
hundred or more objects in the finan
cier's vicinity are paicteJ with m'cro
scopic faithtulnesss. Kett'es, by Emma
R. Wright, is a study worth havirg. A
large brass kettle "intei i ar and a smaller
upright kett'e with a tankard of cool.
They are painted thin and are of a curi
ous lea'hery tone very muah in kaepin
wish the subject. There is something a
trifle amateurish about them, though
where I cacnot say. The Arizona pic
tures by Harvey Young are typical
ty pas, as the university boy orators say,
of Tucson, cloudless, dry sky, diffused,
light, pparse vegetation, and a.1.
Next week the very excellent loan col
"lection and the interesting woikof the
local artists and art students will be
reviewed.
The death of Captain Carson on
Thursday mornicg at the Lincoln bo'el
saddened a great many. The Captain,
in spite of an invalidism of miny years,
pes many friends all over the state who
have learned to lean upon his council
and upon a quiet and reserved but very
ctrong cbaractar.
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ing is in progress now
and is asost interesting colle:tioi of
modern and claesic art Uovenden's
"Breaking Home Ties'' occupies the
cestui place of the exh'bit in point
efpwitioa. It is valued by the oxne-,
Mr. Harrison of Pennsylvaaia, at one
thousand dollar v and it costithe Art
c ub about five hundred dollars to get it
h-reaadpay the insurance on it during
the time of the exhibtion and in transit.
Tha Correi, (which the ca aloz
aiya is ScoJch for a hollow in the ssda
of a hill where game usually liee) in Skye
is an int. 'resting paiiting of Skye ter
rier like cattle, deep batween two hills
from wh'ch the purple mist has not yet
'lifted. The mist is pierced by the slant
in; rajs of the sun. Tha guee and
heather suggest the tuft! growths of
tbe Colorado upl.nda. but the coloring
of the bills and the brushwork is un
it at" reeled more a tent ion than any mistak ibly Englith. The sheep pictura
other picture at the World's Fair, "by T.Sidney Cooper ia a grup of three
though there were hundreds of pictures sheep in harbirorons rep we. Th-y are
it that great chow superior to it in color faithfully piinted and worthy of more
and composition. Tberejson is that the attention thin they seem to get.
American and English race are senti
ment d rather thaa artistic. Th-re Is no
Gallic worship o! the aesthetic for its
owa sake amass; us. A bit of faded car
pet that reminds us of samething hem)
Jy, a pictura punted for the purpose of
making us weep, will attract a crowd
who- w II entirely ov-sflo.k the merely
liamatifuL
We are a story-telling and Btory -loving
people and therefore most of us prefer
Breaking Home Ties to DeLorme'a
Village Street ia Winter. Since the
'H'teeath ceatuy when Italians ba
as to realize the public that was
for a good picture of tha
er and Son, many a painter's rapu-
ts on a single madonna. Ths
abject itself isashrined in tasdernaas.
Mr. Hoveadea'a -mothsr is eldsrly, thin
ia a dark ga of lowered ca'.ico with a
whitish aproa. Her hair is drawn back
from as ahapaly and feminine a head as
ay gi'.t-tramed madonna of them all.but
herfacau wriaklei and thare are dark
But the picture whbh s itistiee the dec
orative appetite mr e vr clo s is the Car
dinal Gathering Fiowera. Ligh ly poised
on h's blessed pontitiod fee, clothed in
red silken hi sa and r.d Morrocco slip
per, with his spotless red robe trailing
on the gravel walk, the churchman is
arranging a bouquet of geraoiuma and
otter fljwerp, which pale before the
glow of his presence. The color is so
clean acd crisp, and the composition is
pleacing. Mr. Hetrminn has used be
loved red without fear and has produced
a deyhtful effect. The Arabs, by Adolph
Shreyer a celebrated painter, is hard.
Mr. Schreyer is not a modern. He be
longs to tha PiLty school of art His
work might ba copied in a good chromo
and lo;e nothing in atmosphere oria
feeling. Irving R. Wiles Sunshine and
Shadow is a large picture by one of ths
best known o! American artists. Ths
coloring is gool and tha mother' and
infant sin well drawn. The babj's
pleased, awed expression as he tauches
exquiaitely piinteJ. It has personality.
too, which the kettle ani pumpkin
across the roon is larking in. Tne latter
iereal shiny bret, fresh from the scour
ing hands of a good housewife. The
pumpkin has a welge cut from its side,
disclosing the pulp and the seeds. Be
sides tbe pumpkin and kettle Mrs. Mc
Koight has a conch shell painted with
scjuracy and an appreciative color in
s'.inct Of ths water colors. The Country Doc
tor, by L. E. Earle, is the most amb"
tous. However, it be'ongs with Tbe
Arabs, and The Strpant Caarmer.
though a little more modern in tech
nique Taa Crucitix at Etaplex,
A Head, aod Corn Shocks, by M. J.
Chapman, has atmosphere and an in
teies'in? personality, as well aa refine
ment in color. Mrs.
several eKetcnes in p
s ik in the mind in spile of the modest
medium in which they are expressed.
Pain JuhnEOu's Indian pxtures, The
Wigwam, aod Peace, are characteristic
of the Indian and the Western plains.
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