. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. y. He raises thecurtain for many a scene man but rarely witnesses,and we behold with wondering admiration andimplicit belief the passionate struggle between twogrand eagles, the bear in his greedy meal off aluckless deer, the solitary bird soaring high abovethe vast, desolate sea. There is a different though a none the lessdistinct charm over many of his more modestcanvases, where he simply revels in the study offield or moor, and where you sometimes have tolook twice before discovering, hidden amongst thegrass, that clust
. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. y. He raises thecurtain for many a scene man but rarely witnesses,and we behold with wondering admiration andimplicit belief the passionate struggle between twogrand eagles, the bear in his greedy meal off aluckless deer, the solitary bird soaring high abovethe vast, desolate sea. There is a different though a none the lessdistinct charm over many of his more modestcanvases, where he simply revels in the study offield or moor, and where you sometimes have tolook twice before discovering, hidden amongst thegrass, that cluster of small birds from which thepicture takes its name, and which has, no doubt,inspired it. What subde studies are not many ofthese smaller pictures, and what a master is notLiljefors in arranging or composing (words,I know, which are but ill suited in this connection)his pictures, giving nature, be it field or forest orsky or shore, its measure of width and greatness,and to the individual animal just what is its due !The sense of the eternal fitness of things never. ON THK alert (Oil. PAINTING) (In the Collection oj Prince Carl of Sweden)i8S BY BRUNO LILJEFORS
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