Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-11-04

of the sea, but it is the fashion Of Amer
leans TO mention foreign artists, and TO
know little or nothing about u w
Copley and Allston and Imam and
Greenough and Kensett. Let the affluent
fling out Of their windows and into the
back yard valueless daubs on canvas, and
call in these splendid but unrewarded
men, and tell them to adorn your walls,
not only with that which shall please the
taste, but enlarge the mind and improve
the morals and save tho souls of those
who gaze upon them.
Brooklyn. and all other American
cities. need great galleries of art, not
only open annually for n few days on eX-
hibition, but which shall stand open all
the year round, and from early morning
until ten O'Clock at night, and free to all
who would come and go. What n
preparation for the wear and tear Of the
day a tive minutes look in the morning
at some picture that will open a door
into some larger realm than that in
which u population daily drudge! Or
what a good thing the half hour Of arts
tic opportunity on the way home in the
evening from exhaustion that demands
regeneration for mind and soul as well
as bodyl Who will do for Brooklyn, or
the city where you live, what w. W.
Corcoran did for Washington, and what
| am told John Wanamaker, by the
donation of De Munkacsy's great picture,
.'Christ Before Ptlate, is going to do for
Philadelphia Men Of wealth, if you are
too modest to build and endow such a
place during your lifetime, why not go
TO your iron safe and take out your last
will and testament, and make a codicil
that shall build for the city of your resi-
dence, a throne for American artr Take
some Of that money that would otherwise
spoil your children, and build an art gal
lery that shall associate your name for
ever, not only with the great masters of
painting, who are gone, but with the
great masters who are trying to live; and
also win the admiration and love Of tens
of thousands of people, who, unable TO
have fine pictures Of their own, would
be advantaged by your benefaction.
Build your own monuments, and not
leave it to the within of others. Some
of the best people sleeping in Greenwood
have no monuments at all, or some
crumbling stones that in a few years
will let the rain wash out name and cpl
taph; while some men, whose death was
the abatement Of a nuisance. have "A pile
of polished Aberdeen high enough for a
king, and eulogium enough to embarrass
n seraph. Oh, man Of large wealth, in.
stead of leaving TO the whim of others
your monumental commemoration and
ep~itaphiology 10 be looked At when peo-
pie are going TO and fro at the burial Of
Others, Guild right down in the heart Of
our great city, or the city where you
live, an immense free reading room, or a
free musical conservatory, or a free art
gallery, the inches for sculpture, and the
walls abloom with the rise and fail Of
nations, and lessons of courage for the
disheartened, and rest for the weary, and
life for the dead; and one hundred and
fifty years from now you will be welding
influences in this world for good among
those whose great grandfather was your
great grandchild. How much better than
white marble that chills you If you put
your hand on it when you touch it in the
cemetery would be a monument in colors,
in beaming eyes, in living possession in
splendors which under the chandelier
would be glowing and warm, and looked
at by strolling groups with catalogue in
hand on the January night, when the
metropolis where the body sleeps is all
showed under. The tower of David was
hung with one thousand dented shields of
battle: but you, oh man Of wealth, may
have a grander tower named after you, one
that shall be hung not with the symbols
of carnage, but with the victories of that
art which was so long ago recognized in
my text as pheasant pictures" Oh, the
power of picturesl | cannot deride, as
some have done, Cardinal Mazarin, who,
when told that he must die, took his last
walk through the art gallery Of his pal.
ace, saying: 'Alust | quit all thisl Look
at that Titianl Look at that Correggio!
Look at that deluge Of Caraccil Fare
well, dear picturesi' As the day of the
Lord Of Hosts, according to this text,
will scrutinize the pictures, ! implore all
parents to see that in their households
they have neither in book or newspaper
or on canvas anything that will deprave.
Pictures are no longer the exclusive pos
session Of the afiluent. There is not a
respectable home in these cities hat
has not specimens of wood cut or
steel engraving, If not of painting,
and your whole family will feel the
moral uplifting or depression. Have
nothing m your wall or in books that
will familiarize the young with scenes
of cruelty or wassail; have only those
sketches made by artists in elevated
moods, and none Of those scenes that
seem the product Of artistic delirium
tremens. Pictures ere not only a strong
but a universal language. The human
race Is divided into almost as many
languages as there are nations, but the
pictures may speak to people OF all
tongues. Volapuk many have hoped,
with little reason, would become a
world wide language, but the pic.
torinl is always a world wide
language, and printers types have
no emphasis compared with il. We say
that children are fond of pictures; but
notice any man when he takes up
a book, and you will see that the first
thing that he looks at il the pictures,