. Cobb's Bill-of-fare. cannot understand whywe prefer the picture of Custers Last Standthat the harvesting company used to giveaway to advertise its mowing machines. ? Once you get away from the early settlersamong the Old Masters the situation be-comes different. Rembrandt and Halspainted some portraits that appeal deeplyto the imagination of nearly all of my portraits which they painted not onlylooked like regular persons, but so far as mylimited powers of observation go, they wereamong the few painters of Dutch subjectswho didnt always paint a windmill or twointo the background. It
. Cobb's Bill-of-fare. cannot understand whywe prefer the picture of Custers Last Standthat the harvesting company used to giveaway to advertise its mowing machines. ? Once you get away from the early settlersamong the Old Masters the situation be-comes different. Rembrandt and Halspainted some portraits that appeal deeplyto the imagination of nearly all of my portraits which they painted not onlylooked like regular persons, but so far as mylimited powers of observation go, they wereamong the few painters of Dutch subjectswho didnt always paint a windmill or twointo the background. It probably tookgreat resolution and self-restraint, but theydid it and I respect them for it. I may say that I am also drawn to thekind of ladies that Gainsborough and SirJoshua Reynolds painted. They certainlyturned out some mighty good-looking ladiesin those days, and they were tasty dressers,too, and I enjoy looking at their down the line a little farther, Iwant to state that there is also something. THE INSCRUTABLE SMILE OF A SALESLADYWOULD MAKE MONA LISA SEEM A MERE AMATEUR Cobbs Bill-of-Fare 95 very fascinating in those soft-boiled pinkladies, sixteen hands high, with sorrelmanes, that Bouguereau did; and the soldierpictures of Meissonier and Detaille appealto me mightily. Their soldiers are alwayssuch nice neat soldiers, and they neverhave their uniforms mussed up or theiraccouterments disarranged, even when theyare being shot up or cut down or and Rousseau did some landscapesthat seem to approximate the real thing, andthere are several others whose names escapeme; but, speaking for myself alone, I wishto say that this is about as far as I can go atthis writing. I must admit that I havenever been held spellbound and enthralledfor hours on a stretch by a contemplation ofthe inscrutable smile on Mona Lisa. Tome she seems merely a lady smiling aboutsomething—simply that and nothing woman can smile inscrutably; that isone of the speci
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