. Art and artists of our time. usts preserved in the Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in work that shows him in the most pleasing light is the statue of the Naiad made forthe water-works at Fairmount, and still to be seen in the place for which Rush designed saw it lately where it stands, at the foot of a rocky cliff in the small rustic garden-inclosure near the reservoir, the graceful bending figure gleaming softly from its covert,half hid in shrubbery and overhung with trees. It was at the close of a late autumn place—busy enough, we were told, in the summer
. Art and artists of our time. usts preserved in the Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in work that shows him in the most pleasing light is the statue of the Naiad made forthe water-works at Fairmount, and still to be seen in the place for which Rush designed saw it lately where it stands, at the foot of a rocky cliff in the small rustic garden-inclosure near the reservoir, the graceful bending figure gleaming softly from its covert,half hid in shrubbery and overhung with trees. It was at the close of a late autumn place—busy enough, we were told, in the summer-time with pleasure-seekers who comethere to eat ice-cream and enjoy the j)rospect of the river—was now deserted, and onlya few sounds were heard, relieved against the dull background of the citys roar: the quick ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 22C Step of a laboring-man or shop-girl hurrying home after the days work done; the rustleof a squirrel in the falling leaves; the quick splash of a water-rat in the pool; the chirp of. A TALK ON THE TERRACE. FROM THE PAINTING BY ELIHU VEDDER. WITH THE PERMISSION OF THOMAS B. CLARKE, ESQ. sparrows choosing their perches for the night. We confess we looked with an interest out of all proportion to its artistic value on this statue, the first attempt, so far as we III 230 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. know, on the part of any American to embody in sculpture his ideal of womanly grace andbeauty. Some of the names we have thus far selected are not among those that commend them-selves to the good opinion of artists. But if we were to be restrained by this consideration,we should have to be silent as to more than one famous name. AVhat do artists anywhereto-day care for West, or Copley, or Stuart, or Trumbull, or AUston, or Leslie—in short, for anyof the names that at one time were the glories of American art ? A few here and there, outof- patriotic feeling, or out of professional respect, may refrain from expressing an opinion,and a few mor
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