The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-08-19
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ESTHER
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days but which has since been taken
out, all four of the pictures having
been taken to Mr.. Bundy's studio for
short time. These are among the
strongest Mr.. Connor has ever paint
ed, some Of the local artists regarding
the large canvas exhibited in Morris S
window as equaling his "Woodland
Memory which such an impression
at Tomlinson Hall couple of years
ago, and which was purchased by an
art lover in indianapolis, this picture
having been one of those reproduced
in the writer's article anent the Rich
mont Group published in "The Art
Interchange, in October last, the re-
production occupying an entire page
in that publication. "Woodland
Memory" was, perhaps, trife hap
pier in composition than the picture
recently painted, but the latter is, if
possible, more virile than the former
canvas. Mr.. Conner, with magnifi-
cent disregard of ordinary canons in
composition has here produced a pic
ture with a subject very few trained
artists would have selected, or dared
select, pool in the foreground, which
is really the pivot upon which the
whole picture swings, being somewhat
obscured by a portion Of the bank
brought round into the immediate
fore, making the effect trifle bizarre.
Notwithstanding this, the picture pos
sesses astounding strength, handled
with that amazing and paradoxical
combination of breadth and detail
characteristic of this artist, and pull
sating with sentiment, the very spirit
of the deep, cool, dark woods, radiat-
ing from the canvas. Of the other
three canvases the daring use Of color
is chiefly remarkable, Mr.. Corners
theories as to the handling and use Of
color being original and carefully
worked out. There is one in which a
red barn occupies the center of the
middle fore which is quite as delight
full, in its way, as anything Mr., Con-
nor has yet done, the color of this
barn, being a sort of delicious time
stained rose-pink, which makes daz-
zling spot of color in an otherwise
colorful composition. These are as
good bits of work as have ever come
from Mr.. Conner's brush and should
be seen by all his admirers.
Perhaps Whitman's interesting
couplet-if any of Whitman's cha
otic output could ever be dignifed by
the word "couplet, lido I contra
diet myself? Very well, then, I con-
tradict myself, 81 am large I con-
tain multitudes,'
was never more pronouncedly eXem-
piified than in the personality of Rus
kin, than whom no one was ever more
delightfully."-, daringly, whymsically in
consistent. He was the living epitome
of Emerson's Qualification, or justifi-
cation, of neutrality-suspicious. If
you do contradict yourself-what
then? With consistency the great soul
has simply nothing to do" manifest
in the following quotation from let
ter recently published in the "Atlan-
tic Monthly" in a series which has
came out in that magazine:
"I am tormented,' he writes, "by
what I cannot get said nor done, I want
to get all the Titians, Tintorets, Paul
Veroneses, Turner's, and Sir Joshuas
in the world into onegreat fire-proof,
Gothic gallery of marble and serpen-
tine. I want to get them all perfect
ly engraved. / want to go and draw
all the subjects of Turner's 1900
sketches in Switzerland and Italy
elaborated by myself. I want to get
everybody dinner who hasn't one
I want to macadamize some new roads
to heaven with broken fools heads
and I want to hang up some knaves
out of the way, not that I've any dis
like of them, but I think it woult
be wholesome for them and for Other
people, and that they would make
good crows meat. I want to play
play all day long and arrange my cab
met with new white wool. I wan
something to amuse me when | an
tired. I want Turner's pictures no
10 fade I want to be able to draw
clouds and to understand how the,
go-and I can't make them stant
still nor understand them-they al
so sideways Farther, I want to maxi
the italian industrious, the American
quiet. the Swiss romantic, the Roman
Catholics rational, and the Englisl
Parliament honest-and I can't d.