The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-06-12
PROGRESS OF AMERICAN CROMO.
TYPOGRAPHY.

business ana improving his beautiful
art. He has begun his contemplated
Gallery of American Painters" in
which he proposes to produce at least
one characteristic picture by each of our
eminent artists. He has already pub
lished several landscapes by Britcher,
several groups of chickens and the like
by TAFT, several fruit pieces by Lily II.
Spencer. and Miss V. CRANBERRY, of
New York, couple of genre pictures
by Niles, of Boston. a series of Rug
giles gems i'll oil cOlors, besides great
variety of illuminated texts and cards by
Miss Jennie Lee, of Jersey. and cartoons
and Autographs by Mr.. Homer, and 9TH
ers.
He has now in active preparation "A
New England winter Landscape" by the
latel Mr.. Morveiller of Maiden !; a figure
piece, ''The Barefooted Boy" by East
man johnson; Easter Morning." by
Mrs. Theresa Hart, wife of James Hart,
the landscape painter I; two brilliant
pictures of children in the woods, 'The
May Queen" and The Little Rogue"
by Mrs. $. G. Brown; THE Shipwreck
of Stcerlorth," by Moran 1.-The Friends"
by Giraud; Thee White Mountains in
October" by Mr.. George L Brown ::
The Bay of New York" by the same
artist The Falls of the Yo Semitic"
by Bierstadt; two fruit pieces, by 5. w.
Fuller; "Cherries and Basket" by Mrs.
Cranberry and besides these nc has a
number of other compositions on the
easels Of distinguished New York
painters. TAFT is hard at work OH his
favorite subjects. We are not at liberty
TO name the paintings by foreign artists
that are to be chromoed as rapidly as
possible, because, in the absence of an
international copyright law, fine-art
publishers are liable to the same annoy
anceS which are now experienced by
the publishers of foreign books.
The Winter Landscape" by Morveil-
Ter, is a picture as essentially New
Englandish,-if we may coin the word,
AS pumpkin pies or Thanksgiving.
Morveiller made a speciality of winter
scenes, and was. admitted to be the best
painter of snow in America. This is
one of the best of his small pieces. 1t
represents an old farm house by the
roadside. with its inevitable LIS and
out houses; grandma in the yard en-
gagged in feeding poultry; group of
skaters on frozen stream hard by, with
spectators looking on at the sport; in
the distance, the village, which is hid
den by the trees on its outskirts. a
grand old elm, under whose wide
spreading branches the farmhouse is
spirit and the appietree, on the other
side of the road, seems to have been
photographed from every family home
stead in Massachusetts away from the
iron thoroughfares. The picture is a
pleasant one; for it has a warm, cheer
full glow-such as every one delights in,
on ..fine mornings" in winter when the
snow lies deep and the sleigh bells are
ringing merily Oh every road.
The Fails of the 70 Semitic" Is a
characteristic bit of California scenery
in Bierstadt's we'll known style. 1t
represents a bright sunset on a lonely
lake, whose solitude is disturbed only
by n pair of water fowl that hover over
and rest on the rocks at the shore. Abb
rupt, steep and rugged cliffs-over Il
part of which tumblcs headlong, a
graceful waterfall-from the 5 outhern
boundary of the lake; and fringe OF
gigantic branches firtrees skirt the
Northern shore. 1t is a careful study
after nature and every touch is Bier
stadtish.
The "Barefooted Boy" is true artists
rendering of Whittiers familiar lines -
BLESSINGS on thee little man,
Barefoot boy with checks of tan;
With thy tnrned-up pantaluons
And thy merry whistled tunes;
With thy red lip, redder still
Kissed by straw berries on the hill;
With the sunshine OH thy face
Though thy torn brims jaunty grace;
From my heart give thee joy
Was once IL barefoot boy!
Prince thou art-the grown UP man
Only is republican.
Let the million dollarcd ride;
Barefoot trudging ut his side,
Thou hast more than he can buy
In the reach of ear aud eye
Outward sunshine, inward joy
Blessings on thee, barefoot boy?
1t represents comely rustic lad, clad
in coarse homespun dress, with his
trousers turned up, his hands i'll his
pockets and the brightest of knowing
yet innocent smiles on his face and in
his eyes. His face is half shaded by his
brOad-brimed hat; his feet are firmly
planted on a grey rock; he looks so
hopeful. so self-reiiant, so entirely at
his ease, that lie seems the perfect incar-
nation of Young America. The access
series of this picture are distant land
scape with a tree in the middle and
foreground. They are well handled.
but they serve only to support the fig
ure, which is one of the best piecs that
Mr.. Johnson has ever produced.
The "Fringed Gentian" after New
man, is one OF those tearfully and Won
derfully elaborate and truthful repre-
sensations of vegetable life i'll which the
York and elsewhere, seem to delight.
1t is in winter coIors. 1t looks as If
it had been drawn with the aid of a
microscope-the most Lilliputian de-
tails.are so exactly reproduced. 1t is
one of the most difficult subjects to
chrome. and we shall take an interest in
examining the result.
Among the fruit pieces in press, judg-
ing from the original, we prefer the
CHERRIES" and the Strawberries" of
Miss Cranberry. which are certainly adj
mirably rendered, with a luscious tidel-
itv to nature. Mr.. Fuller's pieces are
highly finished and harmonious in col
or. but it strikes us that the subjects are
less likely to be universally popular.
The Friends by Giraud,-we forgot
to name it in our LISTS the picture of
little girl, who is petting Newfound-
land dog. Giraud has ali excellent ia
cility for the conception and execution
of this class of subjects, and this is one
of his happiest efforts. 1t will charm
the children everywhere.
In an entirely different style. but of
the same character, are the companion
pictures bv J. @. Brown of New York.
This Young artist excels in genre pic
lures /; he renders children with rare
ability. especially when there is n single
figure at rest, but ia an aTit' lie expires =
i've of mental action. Tn Sc Subiects
the May Queen and the Little
Roguer-are just suited to his peculiar
genius The MAY Queen is a little
girl in the woods. brilliantly attired,
self-adorned with wild flowers. bathed
ia sunlight, her eyes beaming with de-
light at the thought of surprising her
IL hxr han. nd .ro IONS