New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-30

BKANNAN ARrisr-Many of our friends are already
planning their summer campagns: The mountain tops
and pleasant valleys which they propose to visit are all
marked down. already they begin yearn for the noun
tain streams and shady trees We however belong to
the less fortunate classthe cam geapays Our In
mers travel limited to the dusty streets of the city
Our jaunts confined to the brickand limits of
the Corporation Nevertheless enjoy some ex-
tent at least of the delights of the traveller and
without any of the annoyances which accompany him
his route. Without dragging our heightened chain
from the delights of home and friends can have our
dreams of pure air and beautiful scenery Thanks to the
artists the necessity for leaving home is obvated An
hour in their studios and Tapped in Elysum
the crystal gates are openedwe breathe fresher air
the music of running streams is in our ears-beautifu
flowers CLEAN in paths, and Nature welcomes us tc
her most favored haunts All this too without the dan
gers of navigation by rivers the trouble of rail-
road cars the josng of stage coaches or 'the hair
breadth escapes - incident to such conveyances
We have written this after most delightful half hour
spent in the studio of the gifted artist whose name heads
this article Since our last visit Mr. Brannan has been
ndustrously engaged in transferring to canvas some
beautiful sketches of Trgina Mountain Scenv made by
him during visit to that region last summer His
sketches beautiful exceedingly and he is now Ella
borang them into larger pictures which winning for
appreciate the beautiful in nature or art
His last painting is the Hawks Vest wild
solitude in which Zimmerman would have been pleased to
dream out his days. 1t represents morning among the
mountains in the foreground stream of cool clear and
transparent water gliding rocks and pebblesta
precpitous rocks covered with foliage parasitca plants
and trees the left from cleft in these rocks falls
bright cascade whose towards the extreme distance
is marked by thin floating mst-to the right beautiful
cluster of ash and pine trees sketched with peculiar free
dom and bodness, their tall heads into the sky.
These connect themselves in the middle distance with
dense forest Of trees and shrubbery upon which autumn
has thrown her mantle of varied hue.'-beyond these
blue mountains covered with the mist of morning shut
in the landscape The sky is filed with broken Clouds
with the cool mist and fog finely expressed upon them
with here and there glimpse of blue cool clear which
tells OF the melancholy days the saddes of the year.
clearly the and yellow leaf or rude blasts from
Labrador The only sign of animated life about the pic
ture couple of deer in the foregroundone resting on
the bank and the other standing with head erect who has
evidently been refreshing himself in the mountain stream
ut his feet We realize that any other figure would have
been intrusion-the solitude of the place would have
been disturbed The whole picture is given with remark
able truth and fidelity to nature and with remarkable
force and beauty 1t is should never tire of look
ing at and which we hope will with many obvate the
necessity of tour in search of the picturesque until
least our Railroads finished and the facilities and com
forts of travel somewhat increased
We are pleased to notice that Mr. Brannan has been
commissioned to paint of his fine landscapes for our
friends He already ranks deservedly high among land
seape painters and his u.s. to who first heraded
his name in our midst, peculiarly gratifying
His studio is ut No II. st. Charles street.