. Art and artists of our time. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 257. Vol. III.—17 JAMES McNeill whistler. FROM THE PAINTING BY WM. M. CHASE. lias been painted in Americain our day that made so deepi iin appeal to the feelings ofthe people as his Prisoners tothe Front —a young North-ern officer examining a squadof Confederate hough painted in the heatof the war, and when the bit-terest feelings were arousedon both sides, the influence ofthis picture was strong on of brotherly feeling, andof a broad humanity in theway of regarding the The scene was in-tensely dra
. Art and artists of our time. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 257. Vol. III.—17 JAMES McNeill whistler. FROM THE PAINTING BY WM. M. CHASE. lias been painted in Americain our day that made so deepi iin appeal to the feelings ofthe people as his Prisoners tothe Front —a young North-ern officer examining a squadof Confederate hough painted in the heatof the war, and when the bit-terest feelings were arousedon both sides, the influence ofthis picture was strong on of brotherly feeling, andof a broad humanity in theway of regarding the The scene was in-tensely dramatic without atouch of exaggeration, andthe sympathy it excited had110 sentimental flavor. Whenthis picture was shown inFrance it was universally rec-ognized, apart from its greatmerit as a work of art, as adistinctively American pic-ture, one of the very few thatcould be considered worthyof the name. The picture wecopy, The Sunny Side, waspainted at the same time as theone just mentioned, and en-joyed an almost equal popu-III 258 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR T
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