. The New England magazine . the world does not love art. He pos-sibly thought Canadians had learned toappreciate art during his long absenceabroad. He did not know that the only CANADIAN ART AND ARTISTS. 161 things which are really interesting toCanadians to-day are politics, railroads,real estate, Manitoba wheat, and havinga good time. In a decade or so it willbe different — perhaps. The example of Mr. Peels work,• Apres le Bain, here reproduced, isthe picture which gained the gold medalin the last Salon. The black and whitegives no idea of the luminousness andwarmth of the picture. The same
. The New England magazine . the world does not love art. He pos-sibly thought Canadians had learned toappreciate art during his long absenceabroad. He did not know that the only CANADIAN ART AND ARTISTS. 161 things which are really interesting toCanadians to-day are politics, railroads,real estate, Manitoba wheat, and havinga good time. In a decade or so it willbe different — perhaps. The example of Mr. Peels work,• Apres le Bain, here reproduced, isthe picture which gained the gold medalin the last Salon. The black and whitegives no idea of the luminousness andwarmth of the picture. The same quali-ties are seen in his Tired Cupid, a fair-haired little fellow of about five years oldcrying behind an easel, from , round thecorner of which a big-bearded artist isgood-naturedly regarding him. It was while he was working in Con-stants atelier that Mr. Peel made hisgreatest progress; and the fact of hishaving studied under several masters hassaved him from the slightest tendency ofbecoming a mere imitator. The ad-. Hamilton McCarthy. vantage of hearing the judgments ofdifferent studios upon contemporarymasters made him strike out for himself,and all his work has the stamp of orig-inality without the least suspicion of themerely bizarre. The picture which haswon for him his greatest fame was suggestedto him by one of his own little ones,fresh from the bath, happening to take apretty pose before the open fire. Among the Canadian painters of emi- nence, Robert Harris is perhaps the mostEnglish in his methods and the most dis-tinctively Canadian in his selection ofsubjects, and his work has always some-thing of the strong human interest onesees in some of Teniers charming in-teriors. Mr. Harris owes his career en-tirely to his own courage and persever-ance. He comes of an English familysettled in Charlottetown, Prince EdwardIsland, where to this day one ^eels com-
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