Special exhibition of paintings by American artists at home and in Europe, Nov7-Dec26 : illustrated catalog . { -A1 oavK 38. WILLIAM RUSH CARVING. THOMAS EAKINS. This statue, often miscalled the Lady and the Swan, or Leda and the Swan, is Rushs best work, anda Philadelphia beauty is said to have consented to be his model. The painting shows, among other things, a full-length statue of Washington, intended for a shipsfigure-head; a female figure, personating the water-power; and some old-fashioned ship scrolls of thetime. The Washington is now in Independence Hall, and the female figure is on t
Special exhibition of paintings by American artists at home and in Europe, Nov7-Dec26 : illustrated catalog . { -A1 oavK 38. WILLIAM RUSH CARVING. THOMAS EAKINS. This statue, often miscalled the Lady and the Swan, or Leda and the Swan, is Rushs best work, anda Philadelphia beauty is said to have consented to be his model. The painting shows, among other things, a full-length statue of Washington, intended for a shipsfigure-head; a female figure, personating the water-power; and some old-fashioned ship scrolls of thetime. The Washington is now in Independence Hall, and the female figure is on the wheel-house atFairmount. The Academy owns casts of several of William Rushs portrait busts; among them a portrait ofhimself. A picture in the Academy, by Krimmel, an early Philadelphia painter, shows the original position ofthe forebay statue in Centre 39. UNTENANTED. GEO. M. CLAKK. sKS* w, Jam
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