Art and Artists of Indiana

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Century, 1921 - 448 pages

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Page 148 - And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.
Page 256 - She is a woman : one in whom The spring-time of her childish years Hath never lost its fresh perfume, Though knowing well that life hath room For many blights and many tears.
Page 101 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Page 360 - Exp., Buffalo, 1901; gold medal Charleston Exp. 1902; first Corcoran prize S. Wash A. 1904; Proctor prize NAD 1912; hors concours (jury awards) PP Exp. 1915. Represented: "A Lady in Black...
Page 204 - The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Page 158 - For, aside from their inherent excellence as artists, the history of their development has special significance. It exemplifies all the difficulties in the way of original Western art and foreshadows its ultimate victory. These men were isolated from their fellow-artists; they were surrounded by apparently the most unpromising material: yet they set themselves to their thankless task right manfully, and this exhibition demonstrates the power of the artist's eye to find floods of color, graceful forms,...
Page 33 - Description of Banvard's panorama of the Mississippi river, painted on three miles of canvas: exhibiting a view of country 1200 miles in length, extending from the mouth of the Missouri river to the city of New Orleans; being by far the largest picture ever executed by man.
Page 256 - And the true order of ascent is to use the beauties of earth as steps along which he mounts upwards for the sake of that other beauty ; going from one to two, and from two to all...
Page 260 - So, since the universe began, And till it shall be ended, The soul of Nature, soul of Man, And soul of God are blended ! A WIFE BY WAGER.
Page 364 - Chicago, 1893; hon. mention, Carnegie Institute, 1897; second Hallgarten prize, NAD, 1899; first Hallgarten prize, NAD, 1900; bronze medal, Paris Exp., 1900; silver medals, Pan-Amer. Exp., Buffalo, 1901, and Charleston Exp., 1902. NA, 1906. Studio, New York. RETURN TO THE FOLD.

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