Walpi in Sunlight BY MAHONRI YOUNG MAHONRI YOUNG has bad an exciting and varied career. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on August , 1877, he is a grandson of Brigham Young, the Mormon leader. He lived out west until he was twenty, modelling in day and adobe. (This Limited Edition Original Book …
Wooden Horses by REGINALD MARSH REGINALD MARSH {American School} IN THE younger generation of American artists, those who have come for ward since the great war, Reginald Marsh stands apart as the offspring of the city, a painter concerned exclusively with the urban scene. After his schooling at Lawrenceville and Yale, he settled in New …
THE LITTLE WHITE GIRL JAMES ABBOTT McNEILL WHISTLER (American School) THE most persuasive champion of “art for art’s sake” 1n the nineteenth cen tury was Whistler, an expatriate American who thrived in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of Europe. Like a born Frenchman, he affiliated himself with the superior painters of Paris, and was constantly before …
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The Line Storm by JOHN STEUART CURRY (American School) JOHN STEUART CURRY was born on a Kansas farm, the descendant of many generations of farmers. He lived in a country of sudden and fearful changes of weather. He saw the cornfields and the early vegetation of the far-off slopes shriveled to the ground by the …
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The Herring Net by WINSLOW HOMER (American School) WINSLOW HOMER was a plain American, a cantankerous Yankee opposed to cosmopolitan refinements, a native artist entitled to a seat among the master painters of the sea. There is nothing sensational in his pictures-he never strayed from the line of direct experience into the realm of cryptic …
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The Concert Singer by THOMAS EAKINS {American School} The Concert Singer was one of a series of portraits Eakins painted of Philadelphia natives who were prominent in science and culture, with the intent of producing major showpieces for exhibition. The painting exemplifies Eakins’s desire to truthfully record visual appearances with “historical value.” Eakins drew, painted, …
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November Evening by CHARLES BURCHFIELD {American School} CHARLES BURCHFIELD is one of those grim, gifted, independent “Americans who take nothing for granted, essentially a Middle Westerner with a melancholy, sharp-seeing interest in hard facts; He was reared in drab towns and monotonous farnflands that no one loved. (This Limited Edition Original Book Plate/Lithograph, …
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Lady Jean by GEORGE BELLOWS (American School) GEORGE BELLOWS was the most popular painter of his time, and the best of his work has survived the embarrassing adulation bestowed upon his purely spectacular performances. In his college days in Ohio, he was a baseball player and a professional cartoonist; in New York, before he …
The Forest of Arden by ALBERT PINKHAM RYDER {American School} THE most poetic, and in the restricted sense, the most origmal of American painters is Albert Ryder, born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was born a Puritan and a Puritan he remained; but his pietistic inheritance was leav ened by gentleness and good will. …
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Snowy Heron or White Egret by JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (American School) THE eminence of Audubon in American art and his place in the affections of the American people have never been more secure than at the present time. The man has become a national hero, a legendary figure beloved alike by conservationists of wild …
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