American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889) (14760061996)

Identifier: americanartamer01mont (find matches)
Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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TREED BY LYNXES. DRAWN BY GARRETT. AMERICAN ART 267 I hereby offer thee homage, and give thee thanks for many pleasant hours, — and severalfor Dr. John Browns Rab and his Friends, the most perfect prose narrative since Lambs Rosamond Gray. The Rab drawings are among the best, if not the best things Garrettever did, and the finest is the one of Ailie standing before the doctor. With a wonderfulsympathetic closeness this American artist has embodied the gentle Doctors description of the
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The Ballad of Oriana. Drawn by Garrett. brave old Scotch woman. I never saw a more unforgetable face — pale, serious, lonely (itis not easy giving this look by one word; it was expressive of her being so much of herlife alone), delicate, sweet, without being at all what we call fine. She looked sixty, and hadon a mutch, white as snow, with its black ribbon; her silvery, smooth hair, setting off herdark-gray eyes — eyes such as one sees only twice or thrice in a lifetime, full of suffering,full also of the overcoming of it: her eyebrows black and delicate, and her mouth firm,patient, and contented, which few mouths ever are. 268 AMERICAN ART Garrett, it seems to me, is never better in his art than when portraying the faces of theold, such as that of the Abbe Faria, giving his last instructions to Dantes from his death-bed in the dungeon of the Chateau dlf; that of the awaking King in the Day Dream: — And last with these the king awoke, And in his chair himself upreard,And yawnd,