. Studio international . mber with two mural paintings. Mr. Hunt excelled as a portrait painter, and washimself an inspiring and interesting study for this decorative fresco of the AlbanyCapitol is now within the Philadelphia Fine ArtsAcademy, and is of special value to us since theoriginal itself has perished. The subject wascalled by him The Flight of Night; for here Night,a robed goddess, is drawn in her cloud chariot bythree plunging steeds, with behind her the crescentmoon. A male figure, with inverted torch, leadsthe horses as they plunge forward into the paintin
. Studio international . mber with two mural paintings. Mr. Hunt excelled as a portrait painter, and washimself an inspiring and interesting study for this decorative fresco of the AlbanyCapitol is now within the Philadelphia Fine ArtsAcademy, and is of special value to us since theoriginal itself has perished. The subject wascalled by him The Flight of Night; for here Night,a robed goddess, is drawn in her cloud chariot bythree plunging steeds, with behind her the crescentmoon. A male figure, with inverted torch, leadsthe horses as they plunge forward into the painting must obviously be considered as anunfinished study. Night, for instance, a half-draped figure, has the right breast painted in, theleft scarcely indicated; while the male attendanthas alteration marked in chalk upon the torso andthe limbs. But the whole conception emerges asfull of imaginative beauty, while the colour scheme—in which a beautiful grey predominates, withtouches of tender rose—is extremely CONSULT THE PVI HI VN ORACLE (BALTIMOR1 10 {Copyright off. Lai < N LA FARGB 175 Mural Decoration in America In Mr. Hunts second decorative fresco of TheDiscoverer, Columbus, a finely conceived figure,stood with folded arms in the centre of the canvas,while Faith and Hope, beautiful female figures,swam before his frail boat, and Fortune guidedits helm. We can well imagine the enthusiasm which thesefine mural paintings created when they were un-veiled in the State Capitol. A scheme was startedfor the decoration of the whole Assembly Chamberby the same artist, and a sum of 100,000 dollarswas actually voted, but Governor Robinson hereused his power of veto; and considering thefuture story of this Albany Capitol, it was perhapsas well. Mr. Hunts subjects had been painted in frescoupon the actual walls; but when the methods ofgraft developed their fruit, these walls fell outof place, needing the aid of iron girders to meetthe tottering ceiling, whi
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