Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-08-14
Progress OF the American Crono .Li.ho-
ography.

Mr. Prang is rapidly increasing his
business and improving his beautiful
art. He has begun his contemplated
Gallery of American Painters, in which
he proposes to produce at least one
characteristic picture hy each Of our
eminent artists. He has already pub
lished several landscapes by Britcher,
several groups Of chickens and the like
by Tat, several fruit pieces, by Lily VI.
Spencer and Miss Y. Cranberry, of
New York, q couple Of genre pictures
by Niles, of Boston. q series of Rug
giles gems" in oil colors, besides a
great variety of illuminated texts and
cards by Miss Jennie Lee, of Jersey.
and cartoons and lithogtaphs by Mr..
Homer, and others.
He has now in active preparation"A
New England Landscape by the late
Mr.. Morveiler of Maiden; figure
piece, The Barefoote,l Boy" by East
man johnson; easter Morning by
Mrs. Theresa Hart, wife of James Hart
the landscape painter; two brilliant pc
lures Of children in the woods, The
May Queen and The Little Rogue;by
Mrs. s. G. Brown: The Shipwreck Of
Steerforth.7 by Moran; The Friends, >
by Giraud: "The 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 S. W
Fuller; s'Cherries and Basket, by Mrs,
Grsnberry; and besides these he had
a number of other compositions on the
easels of distinguished New York
painters. TAFT is hard at work on bis
tavoritc subjects. We are not at lib
erty to name the paintings by foreign
artists that are to be chromoed as rap
idly q, possible, because of an interna-
tional copyright law, the fine-art pub
fishers arel;ablc tothe same annoyanccs
which are now experienced by the pub
Gshera of foreign books.
The Winter Landscape by Nor
WELLER, is picture as essentially New
Eng 'aldi: b, if we may coin the word,-
as pumpkin pies or THANKSGIVING -
Morveiler made 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
road side. with its inevitable Is and
out houses; grandma in the yard enga-
ged in feeding poultry; > group ofska-
ters on frozen stream hard by, with
spectators looking OH 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 farm house i.
built, is rendered with fidelity and
spirit; and the Appletree, on the other
side of tn road seems to have been
photographed from every family home
stead i'll Massachusetts, away from the
great iron thoroughfares. The picture
i pleasant one; for it has warm
cheerful glow--such IS every one de-
! lights in, on fine mornings in winter
when the snow lies deep and the sleigh
bells are ringing merrily on every
road.
The .Falls Of the 1o Semitic is 4
characteristic bit OF California scenery
in Bierstadt's well known ;style Ii
represents a bright sunset on lonely
lake, whose solitude is disturbed only
by a pair of water fowl that hover
over and rest Oh the rocks at the shore
Abrupt. steep and rugged clitfs-over
a part of which tumbles headlong, 4
graceful watertall-trom the southern
boundary of the lake; and fringe OF
gigantic branchless fir-trees skirt the
Northern shore. 1t is careful
study after nature and every touch is
Bierdstadtish.
The Barefootcl Boy" is true
ARTISTS rendering of Whittiev.s famil-
lar lines:-
blessings on thee little man,
Barefoot boy with checks of tan:
With thy turnel-up rantaloons,
And thy merry whistled tunes;
With thy red lip, redder still
Kissed by strawberries on the hill
| With the sunshine on thy face,
Through thy torn brim' jaunty grace;
From my heart give thee joy-s
Twas once a barefoot boy!
Prince thou art--:he grawa up man
Only is republican.
| Let the million dollared ris!e
Barefoo: srudging at his sde
Thou hast more than he can buy
In the reach of ear nud eye
Outward sunshine: inward Joy
Blessing on thee, baref, b,y!"
1t represents comely rustic lad,
clad in coarse homspan dress, with
his trousers turned up, his hands in 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 br;mmed hat; his feet is firmly
planted on a grey rock; he looks so
hopeful, so selt-reliant, so entirely at
his ease, that he seems the incarnation
OF oung America. The accessories
of this picture are distant landscape
with s tree in the middle and fore
ground. They are well handled, but
they serve only to support the figure,
which is one OF the best pieces that
Mr.. Johnson has ever produced
The ''Fringcd Gentian' after Now
man, is one OF those icarfully and Won
dertully elaborate and truthful repre-
sentations OF vegetable life in which
the pre-Raphaelite school Of artists OF
New \ ork and elsewhere seemto de
light. 1t is in water colors, 1t looks
as itit had tc,n drawn with the aid OF
amcroscope--the most Lilliputian de-
tails are 50 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,
Judging from the original, we prefer the
Cherries and the :sStraw berrios,n Of
Miss y-h,ob 49,,