The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-03-13

From Boston Daily Advertiser, Feb. A
Progress of American Chrome
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From Boston Daily Advertiser, Feb. 4
Progress of American Chrome
LithOgraphy.
Mr.. Prang is rapidly increasing his
business and improving his beautiful
art. He has begun his long contem-
plated Gallery of American Painters,
in which he proposes to produce at
least one Characteristic picture by each
of our eminent artists. He has already
published several landscapes By Brich-
er, several groups of chickens and the
like by TAFT several flower and fruit
pieces by Mrs. Lily NJ Spencer and
Miss V. Cranberry OF New York,
couple of genre pictures By Niles of
Boston, series of Ruggles's gems in
oil colors, besides great variety of
Illuminated texts and cards by Miss
Jennie Lee of New Jersey, and cartoons
and Autographs by Mr.. Homer and
Others.
He has now in active preparation "A
New England Winter Landscape by
the late Mr.. Morveiller of Maiden; a
figure piece, The Barefooted Boy, by
Eastman johnson; Easter Morning.
by Mrs. Theresa Hart, wife of James
Hart, the landscape painter; two bril-
liant pictures of children in the woods,
The May Queen and The Little
Rogue by Mr.. J. G. Brown; The
Shipwreck of Steerforth,' by Moran;
The Friends by Giraud; The White
Mountains in October by George L.
Brown; The Bay of New York, by the
same artist; The Falls of the Yo Sc
mite by Bierstadt; two fruit pieces, by
s. w. Fuller; Cherries and Basket
| by Mrs. Cranberry; and besides these
he has number of other compositions
on the easels of distinguished New
York painters. TAFT is hard at work
on his favorite subjects. We are not at
liberty to name the paintings by foreign
artists that are TO be chromoed as rap
idly as possible, because, in the alb
sence of an international copyrights law,
fne-art publishers are liable to the same
annoyances which are now experienced
by the publishers of foreign books
The winter Landscape by Nor
WELLER, is picture as essentially New
Englandisb,-if we may coin the word,
AS pumpkin pies or Thanksgiving.
Moryeiller made speciality of winter
scenes, and was admitted to be the
best painter of snow in America, This
lis one of the best Of his small pieces.
1t represents an old farmhouse 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 the sport;
in the distance, the village church with
its high spire, and glimpse of the vii
Ilage, which is hidden by the trees on
Its outskirts. A grand old elm, under
whose wide-spreading branches the
farmhouse is built, is rendered with
wonderful fidelity and spirit; and the
lapple-tree, on the other side ofthe road,
seems to have been photographed from
every family homestead in Massachu-
sets away from the great iron thorough
fares. The picture is pleasant one |;
flor it has warm, cheerful glow-such
as every one delights in, on fine morn
Iings' in winter when the snow lies deep
and the sleigh-bells are ringing merrily
on every road.
Tie Falls of the Yo Semitic is a
characteristic bit of California scenery
lin Bierstadt's well-known style. 1t re-
presents a bright sunset on lonely
lake, whose solitude is disturbed only
Iby pair of waterfowl that hover over
and rest on the rocks at the shore.
ISteep and rugged clifs-over part of
which tumbles headlong a graceful
waterfall-form 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 Bierstddttsh.
The 'Barefooted Boy is true art
lists rendering Of Whittier's familiar
lines:
"Blessing on thee, little man,
Barefoot boy with cheeks of tan,
With thy turned-up psntalOOns
And thy merry whistled tunes:
With thy red lips, redder still
Kissed with strawberries on the hill;
With the sunshine on thy face
Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace;
From my heart give thee joy
l was olce barefoot boy
Prince thou art-Ihe grown-up man
Only is republican.
Let the million -dollared ride;
Barefoot, trudging at his side,
Thou hast more than he can buy
/ In the reach OF ear and eye
Outward sunshine, inward joy
Blessings on thee, barefoot boy !"
It represents comely rustic lad, clad
in coarse homespuu dress, with hir
trousers turned up, his hands in bis
pockets and the brightest of knowing
yet innocent smiles on his face and in
his eyes. His face is half shaded by
his broad-brimmed hat; his feet are
firmly planted on a grey rock; be looks
so hopeful, so self-reliant, SO entirely Al
his ease, that he seems the perfect in.
carDation of Young America. The ac'
tcessories of this picture are a distant
landscape with tree in the middle and
foreground. They are well handled,
but they serve only to support the
figure, which is one Of the best pieces
that Mr.. johnson every produced.
The Fringed Gentain' after New
man, is one Of those fearfully and won,
derfuIly elaborate and truthful represen-
tations of vegetable life in which the
, pre- -Raphaelite school of artist of New
| York and elsewhere seem TO delight
1t is in water co!ors. 1t looks as if it
had been drawn with the aid of a mi
croscope-the most Liliputian details
: are so exactly reproduced. 1t is one
of the most difficult subjects to chrome,
! and we shall take an interest in examin.
ing the result.
Among the fruit pieces in press,
Judging from the originals, we prefer
the 'Cherries' and the Strawberries, o.
/ Miss Cranberry, which are certainly ad
| mirably rendered, with luscious fidel
ity to nature. Mr.. Fuller's pieces are
highly finished and harmonious il
color, but it strikes us that the subjects
are less likely to be universally popular
|
r The Friends by Giraud, d,-we for