. What pictures to see in America. Fig. 15—The Misses Boit. John Sargent. Boston, Museum of Fine Fig. 16—Fog Warning. Winslow Homer. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts. BOSTON 51 wisdom that she threw herself from the rockand died. The people of Thebes were so grate-ful that they made CEdipus their king and hemarried Jocasta, not knowing that she was hisown mother. A terrible pestilence and fam-ine soon overtook Thebes and when CEdipuslearned from the oracle what he had done, heput out his own eyes and wandered forth at-tended by no one but his daughter Antigone. Another example of Vedders wor
. What pictures to see in America. Fig. 15—The Misses Boit. John Sargent. Boston, Museum of Fine Fig. 16—Fog Warning. Winslow Homer. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts. BOSTON 51 wisdom that she threw herself from the rockand died. The people of Thebes were so grate-ful that they made CEdipus their king and hemarried Jocasta, not knowing that she was hisown mother. A terrible pestilence and fam-ine soon overtook Thebes and when CEdipuslearned from the oracle what he had done, heput out his own eyes and wandered forth at-tended by no one but his daughter Antigone. Another example of Vedders work in themuseum is Lazarus—a weird, strange pic-ture full of the miraculous spirit. Vedder al-ways gives the impression of invisible powersstirring in the garments and of mysterious hap-penings among the surrounding objects. Aswish of wings is heard in the swirling dra-peries. Certainly arrested action was never atruer description of any portrait of John than in that of The Misses Boit(Fig. 15). The children have stopped justfor a moment to watch the artist paint; hedashes it right of
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