Outing . nd Flowers Painted in MyGarden, were generously sprinkled amongthe more ambitious canvases which por-trayed what the critics were apt to callhigh-falutin tragedy. The drawing might be sadly out ofplumb, the colors crude and fearsome, andthe figures so wooden that they were sureto break in two if they should try to walk,but such objections were captious and un-called for. This was Art for home con-sumption, and Award or Mention atthe fair brought as much pride and joy tothe white farmhouse with green blindsperched on the wind-swept hill, as a Salonmedal to the painter who has found a f
Outing . nd Flowers Painted in MyGarden, were generously sprinkled amongthe more ambitious canvases which por-trayed what the critics were apt to callhigh-falutin tragedy. The drawing might be sadly out ofplumb, the colors crude and fearsome, andthe figures so wooden that they were sureto break in two if they should try to walk,but such objections were captious and un-called for. This was Art for home con-sumption, and Award or Mention atthe fair brought as much pride and joy tothe white farmhouse with green blindsperched on the wind-swept hill, as a Salonmedal to the painter who has found a farlarger measure of success. Hard by the pictures were the hand-painted china and embroidery. Coun-try maids no longer toil over samplerssuch as helped to educate their grand-mothers. But the country fair brings forthfrom old chests and dressers some rarespecimens of this lost art, samplerswhereon the alphabet was worked withclumsy, painstaking stitches, or with suchawesome legends as Life is Short; Eter-. Photograph by A. P. Davis. Few free shows are as good as the wonderful diving dogs.
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