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
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Weaving St. Agnes Wool. Drawn by Garrett. Garrett has executed many designs for Tennysons poems, his most important work being,perhaps, the drawings made for Enoch Arden. Few of the younger generation have seen,and probably most of the older ones have forgotten, an illustrated edition of this masterpieceof pathos, which was brought out by the good old house of Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, inBoston, about twenty-five years ago. In those days the various processes which are nowso largely used in reproducing the artists work were almost unknown, the brave bindingsand giant pages now seen were still mostly things of the future, and a copy of this modestlydressed little edition of Enoch Arden would to-day surely be overlooked amid the myriadhandsome volumes on the booksellers counters. But for all that it contained some superb 260 AMERICAN ART
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Madeline Praying. Drawn by Garrett. drawings by John La Farge, Elihu Vedder, W. J. Hennessy, and F. O. C. Darley — drawingswhich made it seem quite superfluous for any later artist to essay the illustration of the storyof that strong heroic soul, which had also been well done by the English painter, ArthurHughes. Yet Mr. Garretts designs make a distinct addition to the work of the older men,and what stronger word could be said for them? His conception of Enoch after his return,is a fine one, — a grave, bearded face, strong, sad, patient, — and shows that the artist hasfully felt the power of the poem. To Tennysons Song of the Owl, Garrett contributed adelightful drawing of the merry milkmaid on her high pattens; and to the Ballad ofOriana several striking pictures, one showing the hapless lady lying prone upon the battle-ments with the fatal arrow in her breast, and another, the vision of his slain mistressappearing to the wretched lover — O breaking heart that will not break,

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