School; a magazine devoted to elementary and secondary education . he still resides, the beloved friend of his French-Canadian neigh-bours. These simple folk with their quaint dress and houses, their primitiveimplements of toil, their cattle and domestic animals have providedMr. Walker with subjects for most of his works. Like Millet he hassucceeded in placing the figure in the landscape so that each is the com-plement of the other. His peasant bears an harmonious relationship tothe soil upon which he toils. Millets art is often depressing because hesees only the tragic side of labour,
School; a magazine devoted to elementary and secondary education . he still resides, the beloved friend of his French-Canadian neigh-bours. These simple folk with their quaint dress and houses, their primitiveimplements of toil, their cattle and domestic animals have providedMr. Walker with subjects for most of his works. Like Millet he hassucceeded in placing the figure in the landscape so that each is the com-plement of the other. His peasant bears an harmonious relationship tothe soil upon which he toils. Millets art is often depressing because hesees only the tragic side of labour, Of sinful man the sad there is no sadness about Walkers habitants. His artistic hand-ling brings out the beauty in the routine of their lives. The followingwords of the American art critic, Chas. H. Cafifin, gives an excellentsummary of Walkers aim: While there is no doubt, I think, that he is [3591 360 THE SCHOOL primarily interested in art as an expression of life . . the feeling forbeauty in the abstract is never absent from his Horatio Walker fit work. The frontispiece of this number, Turning the Harrow, reproducedby the courtesy of N. E. Montross, New York, is a good illustration ofWalkers art. The industrious Pierre and his heavy-footed,~shaggy- CANADIAN ARTISTS SERIES 361 maned French pony are at work betimes. The dawn is driving fromthe distant sky the mists of morn. The early beams have alreadylighted a far-away hillside and high-lights begin to appear uponman and horse and harrow. Meanwhile the home-made harrow mustbe righted as the horse turns to retrace the length of the ploughed conception is simple, natural and harmonious, satisfying to thelayman who enjoys the story it tells, and to the artist who approves themanner of telling it. From 1883, when Mr. Walkers work first met with public approval,until the present, his fame has been growing. Hartmann in his Historyof American Art concedes him first place among American animal pa
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