The courier., 1898-01-08
Work of Local Ar
the loan Collection.
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the loan Collection. groupo OF ar lists ir
Lincoln, as we'll a:
the large number Of good pictures iu
the loan collection at the university, de.
serves definite recognition.
Mrs. Frances Mumaugh of Omaha
contributes four pictures; two oils
Grapes, and Roses, and two water colors,
Cornfield and an Interior. The rosss
are painted with great refinement and |
have chanced on several occasions to
ovsrhear bystan1ers praising their color.
Tho Cornfield and the Interior are
truthful and trausfused with an artist g
spirit. Miss Parker's ideal head OF a
young girl in pastel has charming
color and the light in the picture. not on
it. is real inspiration. Miss Parker's
portraits are always charming. Like
every other artist, including Sargent and
Chase and Whistler, she sometimes gets
q likeness and sometimes misses it. but
from an artistic standpoint the result is
worthy of serious praise. The pastel
portrait OF Mss Hartley is at once a
good likeness and pleasing picture. If
complete deception we're the object Of
paint Mrs. Mcknight has attained it in
a Sea Shell. But Whistler says that it
is not the aim, and that a picture must
stay contsntedly in it's frame. However
that may be, Mrs. Meningitis shell
curves deIiciously, all pinkly purple, into
the mysterious interior, built by a
heaven directed little mollusk. 1t would
suit Ruskin, this shell, if not Whistler,
for every characteristic mark Of the sea-
far.ng dweller is upon it. Miss Wa sh's
two figure pieces are an excellent like
ness OF her father. Mr.. Walsh. and an in
t,resting study of a girl reading by
l4mplight. Miss Walsh's chTysanthe-
NUNS are very clean in color. Nip and
Tuck. two Skye terrier dogs, by Miss
Parker have attracted much favorable
comment. Miss Don Carlos pictures
have been exhibited before. She has a
very rapid method and seems to pro-
duce large and imposing pictures with
out much difficulty, but they are hard
and entirely without atmosphere except
in the case of little ship which calls
before the wind with a spirited action
quite foreign to Miss Don Carlos other
work.
or the four pictures contributed by w.
II. Green Crabbe's Bridge is very in
teresting from the likeness to the place
so familiar to us all. Roses an stili
life study by Mrs. Green.ee show good
method and worthy ideal. The work by
the Misses Rogers is distinguished by
very Careful technique. Nothing is
sl,ghted. Several Of their pictures are
copies SO that it is impossible to recJg-
rizs anything but good technique and
conscientious faithfulness to copy. The
still life and fruit and flower pieces are
origina al ard iu each the artistic inten-
tion is unobscured. The chair and
stool carved by Miss Isabella Rogers are
still further evidence OF versatility.
Mrs. Paul Holm's pastel portraits OF
Miss Elliot, Mrs. Teeters and Mrs. Camp
bell have good coloring and the likeness
NJ Miss Elliot is striking but the tech
nious is tussy and complicated. The
ideal head of Topsy is the best in work.
manship. mysterious head Of Skip
ner labeled Disko and painted by Mrs
Brown completes the list OF contribu-
tious by local artists. Disko is the cap
tain Of Kiplipg's We're Here in his story
of Captain's Courageous. This broLzed
sailor with his hat brim trained upward