. The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city. oamy with robust activity; fullof salt, cold, green, and of elusive colour, and ap-pears to thunder upon the rocks with tremendousforce. The canvas has an amusing peculiarity. As iswell known. Homer made frequent use of his sig-nature as a small, but none the less important, fea-ture o
. The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city. oamy with robust activity; fullof salt, cold, green, and of elusive colour, and ap-pears to thunder upon the rocks with tremendousforce. The canvas has an amusing peculiarity. As iswell known. Homer made frequent use of his sig-nature as a small, but none the less important, fea-ture of his composition. He never signed a pic-ture jsly, but always placed the name wherea line would count in its detail. This canvas bearstwo signatures I one in red near the lower right handcorner, the other in black upon a patch, below theother, with the date, [894. The Visit of the Mistress1 is an interesting souvenir of Homers early manner, well worth pre-serving, and considered one of the bes! of his nu-merous pictures of negro life. It was painted as late as [880 and retains the influence of his eareeras an illustrator, which seems so unrelated to hismature work, and which was yet so successful anddignified. Though he developed into so forceful a person-ality, and may be considered one of the greatest. Hbe TRIiilliam Z. Evans Collcctton 226 figures in the history of American art, Homersearly experiences were of the most normal. Hewas born in Boston in [836 and his trend ofthought manifested itself in his childhood. Hisnatural attainments were such thai when, at theage of nineteen, he went into a lithographers of-fice, he could undertake the more artistic part ofthe work, making titles for sheet music, and aseries of portraits of the Massachusetts a few years he set up for himself and madedrawings for Ballous Monthly and for HarperBrothers. With the breaking out of the war hevent to the front as special correspondent and artistfor Harpers, and later made a second
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