Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-10-23
DurWard Mad0nnas
and Other Paintings
Artist Dies in the Midst of his Labors and Lies Buried In
Front of the Chapel He Aided in Building
By Hugh Kelley

Last week the Durward madonnas
and other art treasures crates
weighing one quarter Of a ton-were
SHIPPED to the Catholic University OF
America at Washington, D. c., to be
placed in the chapel of the Immacu-
late Conception, building that is
being erected to the memory OF the
American soldiers in the late war
That things Of beauty should be joys
forever, and in furtherence Of the
life-wish OF the loved collector, that
they should be seen and treasured in
perpetuity, these canvases and pastels
were presented in gladness by the
heirs to the university. It ia the hope
Of all beauty lovers that the remain
ing madonnas from the brusho OF Char
les p. Durward, now held in private
ownership, may join the lovely major
|ity here in due time and reason.
i 1t was hoped-oh, so hopefully by
many that this unique collection
would be kept together within sight
of the site of the studio wherein they
were mostly painted, housed in some
Catholic institution that would be as
enduring as the surrounding hills
This was not to be; and who knows
who shall say-that the wider hori
zon that opens up to them here is
not immeasurably morefitting?
The following Is a partial list OF
subjects:
"Curly Head" (J. T. Durward in
childhood), B. /. d., 1850.
'Tce Cream Melon and other Fruit
(from Hyslop's garden, Milwaukee)
B. l. D. 1852.
Lord Bacon Copy from Van Dyke
(the wisest brightest, meanest Of
mankind), B I. D.
Mater Dolorosa" (copy from a
supposed Titian) ,IB. /. D. 1854.
Serving Mass" CT. r. D. aged nine
yearss, B. I. D. 1856.
Portrait of Prof. B. I. D."( st.
-B.sraabis, milwaukee 1856.
"Squaw's Skull (picked us as Mil
waukeeTs streets were being graded
through to Red Mans cemetery, 1850
B. I. D. 1856.
Portrait Mrs. Theresa M. Durward'
B. /. D. 1856.
"Auld Geordies" birthplace of M.
T. d., G. P. d. 1868.
English Pheasant" (painted in
Manchester, England) C. P. D. 1864.
"The Shepard Boy" Gle pipes to
his lambs on the hillside and knows
every face in his flock.) G. P. D. 1865.
Midnight, Moonlight, Glen in Win
teri G. P. D. 1866.
Madonna of the Finger" c.. p. d.
1868.
Mourning Dove" (idealized) C. P. D.
'Fanciful View Of Glen and Chap
el' illustrating the lines:
"Knowest thou the chapel seated on
the rocks?
Called of st. Mary, proof 'gainst temp
est shock;
A fearful foot bridge (iike our path
through time),
Leads to it, DER the gorge sublime.
Brothers and Sister" (Andrew, II;
Wilfrid, 13; Mary Thecla, 81, G. P. D.
1869.
Lilly of the Wild Ca portrait of
my sister, G. P. d. 1859.
Bernard l. Durwards (poet, paint
er, professor), G. P. D. 1870.
"Mrs. Theresa M. Durward" (moth-
er of painters, poets, priests and
maker of lace to the altar), G. P. D.
1870.
Wheat, Grapes and Wild Rose" Ca
trinity of our earthly requirements
food, drink and beauty C. P. D. 1870.
REV. J. T. Durward." G. P. D. 1870.
@Glen Cluster undated and un-
signed, probably B. l. D.
"Magdalena" B. /. D. 1870.
"The Lost Fawn" { more beautiful
than any of her race, etc), C. P. D.
1872.
Immaculate Conception" (our lady
of Lourdes), G. P. d. 1872.
Madonna of the Straw" C. P. D.
1872.
Madonna of the Sleep, C. P. d.
Madonna of the Embrace" MA
donna and child painted and presented
to Mrs. Margaret Dent, Portage, Wis.
by G.. p. d., G. p. d. 1872.
Corn, Butternuts and eight inch
long bunch Wild Grapes" Ca very
rare variety of frost grapes, native
of the Glen) G. p. D. 1875.
Madonna of the Dove, G. p. 1875.
Portrait Charles P. Durward" (aged
80 years., B. I. d. 1875.
migratory Pigeons" (slightly un-
finished at the artists death.) C. p.
d. 1875.
The Glen mounted specimens OF
this now extinct bird goes to the
Milwaukee state normal school. BY
actual comparison, the bird and can
vass side by side, the absolute and
wonderful truthfulness OF the paint
ing is attested.
Arlington Melon, Glen vinyard and