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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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Reclining upon a crimson sofa, with head resting upon her hand, she looks dreamilythrough and beyond you.1 A bitter, freezing blast sweeps the highlands. A poor, benumbed shepherd, with his smallflock, has paused to rest in his toilsome journey up themountain side. The sheep are huddled about hithough beseeching shelter from the pitiless coleFrom the upturned cape of the mans coat afilm of snow is blown, which cuts the fleshand blinds the sight. Let us rthat a haven is not far away.In the delineation of suchsubjects Schenck is un-equalled. A diamond pool,embowered with trail-ing branches bent lowwith weight of foli-age and sweet-odoredflowers, is the retreatof a golden-hairednymph. Lying uponits margin in the joy-ous abandon of com-plete seclusion, sheplucks the dew-ladenopening buds, lookingupward at the flecksof sky through thedelicate tracery ofleaves. Her form, aharmony of roundedlines and gracefulcurves, is softly re-flected in the mirror-like depthspeopled with fauns and dryads.
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^-w*—From the Original by George Clairin.Drawn by H. Chase. It is a dream of those far-off days when the forest wasPerchance if some fabled denizen of the wood were to en-croach upon her privacy, the nymph would take the form of a mild-eyed doe and with speedof the wind vanish from sight. In this fair creation by Hagborg we see the nude so beautifulin form and pure in motive, that even the most prurient prude will be compelled to admireand praise. 1 There is an etching from this picture, by L. Monzies, published in LArt, 1876, Vol. III. p. 120. The etcher has, however,idealized the picture somewhat, and has made slight changes in the drawing. Mr. Chases sketch, here given, is a closer renderingas far as it goes. AMERICAN ART 279 Unless one has known by actual experience the realities of the skirmish, the charge, thedesperate defence, he cannot fully appreciate the terrible truthfulness of De Neuvilles militarypictures. He is the painter of action, of that supreme moment when men loo

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