The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-30

were household words. These village
women" says Fra dorado frankly. knew
more about them than | did"
From another Illinois town Tar up
north came later to Fra dorado another
request for a lecture, with u modest ron
fcssion OF attachments which he describes
as " somewhat appalling"
"Ths text books which ". are studying ~ an
historical basis for our art work are PrHHor-
CHIpirz's Art in Primitive Greece RApcLirvEs
Schools and Masters Of Sculpture 0AHDiSyha
Handbook Of Greek Sculpture, and the works OF
LunKR, MITCHELL, fRolHissHAM. MAReUAND and
others, aud such facts on art ~ as found IN
DrBAys History u Greece also all late investiga-
tons a. given In the periodicals. Any allnsion to
Egyptian BabyloniAn, Assyrian or Persian sculpture
VIII be understood. ~ we have studied the art or
those counties. A mooted question with us has
been the extent Of Egyptian influence on early
Greek art, and then be able 10 prove ones posi-
ton. NC"
Need We say that Fra dorado sped him
self again, this time to the far north OF
%lllinois2
That is not all. PROF. A he" as
Fra dorado explains. "of the wonderful
collection Of lantern slides-tells me that in
quiries are raining IN regarding French art,
French study courses, French paintings and
French sculpture" Fra dorado deplores
the circumstance that on modern French
sculpture there il no literature available
to his earnest n eager disciples except
ian unillus rated essay by BROwNELL,
super-refined in its analysis, but unintel-
liuitla 10 p,Nat raajara AND m artiola nr
two by THEODORE CHILD, readable and
unreliable" Nevertheless, there is hope for
the women's clubs while Fra dorado lives.
II declare" he says enthusiastically, Il
would like to prepare a couple OF compact.
well-illustrated little volumes on French
and American sculpture myself"
or the general hoprfulness OF the art
movement in the women's clubs in Illinois
the Master Is firmly convinced. 1T Is a
good thing" he cxclaims. II am proud OF
them hope they may keep it W through-
out all time. Great results are to come OF
this mighty unrest, this craving to learn
things. The Yankee Il want to know has
a real Significance to-day, and though it was
some such desire that got the human race
into trouble, according to the old story. |
have a notion that the latter-day EVE will
work out our redemption in time through
the same formula"
What Fra LORADo wants now Is TO get
into circulation through rural Illinois a
missionary collection OF photographs or
autotypcs, with n view to assuaging this
mighty unrest and satisfying this craving
to learn things which he notes in cultured
circles:
Then whom a club in Aurora. say, takes up RIM.
BRANDT. or a reading circle in Cairo comes to @ rAoMr,
here are half a hundred Of the artists greatest
works, perfectly reproduced and ready for ship.
ment. How such adj uncts a. these would change the
whole character OF art.club work! What . treat to
have spread upon your walls. II only for a day. the
entire life work OF the Terrible MICHAEL or every
one OF vEIAsqUEz's masterpieces"
Thus slowly but surely are the efforts OF
Fra DORADO, the undismayed pioneer OF
when a collection OF plaster nymphs Of
Haitian beauty and Neutrality-suspicious. stall
wartncss may sit in a basin in a public
place in Chicago, Aurora or even Cairo.
Illinois. and splash themselves to their
early Florcntine hearts content without
danger Of being pantaletted or water
proofcd by the prudish. or manned and
disiigured by paving-stones hurled by the
irreverent and the fanatical.
That day will surely come in Illinois;
and would that the lamented EUGENE
FIELD, the gracious historian of the print
tive age Of art culture in Cook county,
might have lived to see It!