Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1894-02-17
BEAUTIFUL PORTFOLIOS
VANISHING WHITE CITY
a Graphic Description of What our Art
Portfolios VIII Contain.

The following is taken from the in
PRODUCTION Of Series of the GRApHIc's
Art Portfolios:
The Great Columbian Exposition,
in it's comprehensive plan, is the most
wonderful creation that the human
intellect has carried to Il successful
| termination in thousands of wears.
The beauty, scope, grandeur, artistic
worth, educational value and wide
reaching plan of the work was so
universal in its manifold particulars.
| that the reasoner becomes amazed at
| the magnitude of the undertaking.
! when he attempts to view the whole
as unit. The White City, with its
marvellous beauty, is almost thing
OF the past. Ere the year 1894 has
fully opened, Time, with its match
! less power. and Nature with her re-
lentless force, will have claimed this
wonderful creation for their own.
and taken to the spirit realms those
mazes OF beauty which man. with his
intellectual power, brought for few
months within the perspective of the
human vision.
The many millions OF people who
came to enjoy the yastsglories OF the
Fair, have taken away, as inaividu-
ais, such mental pictures as their
respective intellects were able to
grasp and retain No one could
grasp its entirety, nor has any one
attempted the task. Yet theindivid,
ual loves to meet the universal in his
own mind, and in SO doing tries to
picture himself at different points
and places III the great Fair. His
own pathway through the grounds
and buildings he knows, and as mem
DRY recalls his accomplishment in see
ing the Exhibition as a whole, he
becomes satisfied with the result.
Still at times he longs for another
glimpse of those dream-like pictures
which haunt his mind with wondrous
beauty. He longs for pictorial sug-
gestivenesS to aid his memory in re-
calling the few days spent amid such
bewildering scenes Of loneliness. He
recalls the landscapes SO ingeniously
diversified with foliage and flowers:
he remembers the winding lagoons
with their silvery waters, and he
again sees the gondolas, canoes,
steamboats, and electric launches ply
Ing from point to point with loads
OF joyous people. He hears the bands
playing and the murmur of the foun-
tains, and catches anon the CLEAN OF
the architectural beauty of the build
ings reared in stately grandeuralong
the shores OF the sparkling waters.
From the grounds he wonders in
fancy into the great buildings and
tries to arrange in systematic order
the various exhibits of the foreign
nations. He contemplates the sculp-.
ture OF Italy and sees again the beau
tifui La Reposa giving him her merry.
smile OF greeting as he enters the
gateway of ltaly's exhibit in the
Liberal Arts Building. The wood
carvings OF Switzerland, the rich ft1rs
ana Dr0nzes OF Russia. the pottery.
porcelain and iron work 0fGermany,
the delicate glass from Bohemia. the
tapestries, brOnzes and Jewels from
France, the rugs and carpets from
Persia, and the art production from
Japan, all claim moments of refiec-
ton In the Art Palace he contrasts
the work OF the painters and sculp-#
tors OF the United States with their
brother and sister artists from the
other countries OF the globe. The
Woman's Building with it's wonder
ful exhibits, shows what the gentlel
sex has done for art, literature and
science. The remarkable beauty OF
the painted windows and extensive
literary exhibit made the German
building one oil the most attractive
spots OF the Fair.
The aim OF this educational series
Of Art Folios is to bring again to
view all the different features Of the
Fair. The series will begin with the
Court OF Honor and introduce the
reader to a panorama of scenes.
buildings, exhibits, pictures and I
sculptures from all the countries and
colonies that We're represented at the
Fair. All the great buildings with
their exhibits, the state buildings
with a portion of their most interest
ng features, and the Midway Plais-
ahee Withits people, villages, mosques,
sheatres,menageries, iugglcrs. dancers
md snake-charmers, will be brought
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