. Landscape and figure painters of America. a. M a ta. o perfect rendering of a subject of this character on acanvas of this size. It is, indeed, continually sur-prising in these smaller pictures of Blakelocks tonote how admirably suited his method in every in-stance is to the character of the subject portrayed,a fact which is not always true of the larger can-vases, as one will gather from looking at even sofine an example as the Pipe Dance. This largepicture is one of his most famous works and rightlyso, for though it is a failure in some ways it is asplendid failure, and in other ways it is
. Landscape and figure painters of America. a. M a ta. o perfect rendering of a subject of this character on acanvas of this size. It is, indeed, continually sur-prising in these smaller pictures of Blakelocks tonote how admirably suited his method in every in-stance is to the character of the subject portrayed,a fact which is not always true of the larger can-vases, as one will gather from looking at even sofine an example as the Pipe Dance. This largepicture is one of his most famous works and rightlyso, for though it is a failure in some ways it is asplendid failure, and in other ways it is a grandsuccess. In it, if anywhere in American art, youmay read something of the epic of our native Indianand you will look in vain elsewhere for its like inour art so far as the heroic cast of the compositionis concerned. A picture that comes from the collection of thelate Dr. Charles M. Kurtz, formerly Director ofthe Buffalo Museum, is Going to the Spring. Thisyoung girl going to fill her jar with fresh water,performing a common daily task, transl
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