Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-01-31
AMONG copYIsTs AND STUDENTS.
4 Visit tn the Corcoran Gallery Of Art
Criticisms and Remarks.

Nrtticisins ana hehhrks.
There : really no place in Washington
where tie tourist can more delightfully."-
while away an hour or SO than in the Cor
coran gallery Of art, especially on the
~pay-days.' for then the crowd is never
nnpleasantly large and the cOpyists and
students are at work.
II j. n habit 10 underrate copyists-to
account them only "the drndges Of art
that their work is mechanical, soulless
On the contrary, the successful copyist
must have the quickest and the most
sensitive appreciation experience and
NOT only talent, but the mot versatile tai
ent. Except the design Of the picture, it
strikes me that that there are so few great
designs, considering the number of pict-
ures and the noble histories the world
offers-the copyist must bcas skilled in
the Use Of his brush as any other artist.
This week he may have an order To paint
from masterpiece Of the smooth style
aud next week from an eXaggeration of
the broad school.
MAKING THE coPYIsT JEALOUS.
Many of the artists downtown have
from time To time entered the gallery very
sclf-cunscious and superior AMI jestilg at
the "bare idea" Of their copying and max
ing the poor copyist Jealous by naming
some princely sum to be paid them for so
humbling their talents. These Wanted
artists have been further humbled by find
ing that il was with great difficulty they
could make their work satisfy the require
ments of the board. They could paint to
their own satisfaction their crude studies
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the many intermediate tints and tones
and reflections that 90 To make up some
Of the highly finished works Of the Cor
coran gallery.
A generation or so back, owing perhaps
to fewer assistants in colors, etc., it was
supposed to require half lifetime OF
study and preparation To make an artist,
now everybody takes up painting as
they would Homework or sewing-uo
trembling on the threshold. no awe for
for the divinity Of art and its great mas,
ters-they push up their sleeves and rush
in "where angels fear to tread" and
strange rs il may seem, often successfully.
Age, no matter how advanced, seems Il
offer no bar to artistic ambition.
CRITICISMS AND REMARKS
There SCENE to lie perfect harmony ex,
isting between the officers and worker,
in the gallery, the latter-mnstly ladies'
are very bright and devoted tu their mod,
Of life, and apparently dcriv- considerable,
amusement from the criticisms aud re
marks of The visiting public. is that the
infant Christ and his mnthpr," asked d
handsomely dressed woman of lad,
copying an last Indian interinr-a cir
baby. emphaiically, washing the face of 0
strapping ayah.
what is the meaning Of the picture OIL
that vasey" asked onother.
"Prometheus Bound"
"Bouud-er-!"
Yes, Prometheus Bound-and that l,
| the vulrure that feeds on his overland
his liver il renewed every day"
is il possible" exclaimed the awet
listener.
Il see a good deal of water. but n,
| spring." said would-be critic, looking
upon u celebrated Nernal landscape.
Many Of the eopyists and students AT,
very pretty and make very effective pict
ures of themselves when al work. !,
handsome gold medal was given last yeal
for proficiency in the black AMI white de
partnent, and quite crowd are contend
ing for the one to he given the end %
this term.-Washington Cor. New Yorl
| World