Identifier: americanpainters00shel (find matches)
Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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estern Bank-NoteCompany of Chicago ; and for one year was an instructor in the Academy ofDesign in that city. In 1859 he Avent to the Rocky Mountains. He hasstudied art six years in Munich. Mr. Shirlaw has only recently become known in New York as an artist.It was his Sheep-Shearing in the Bavarian Highlands, exhibited in theNational Academy in 1877, that first brought him into favorable notice here,although to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in the preceding yearhe had sent two important works. One of these, called The Toning of theBell, represents a scene in a Bavarian foundery. A large church-bell lies onits side on the ground. A workman leaning over it proceeds to test its sound,while a violinist near by gives the key-note. Several children, introducedinto the picture, are greatly interested in the proceedings. The other workwas Feeding the Geese, a name which the artist afterward abandoned for Good-Morn nig.1 The title first selected describes the production, the feeder
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THE TONING OF THE BELL.From a Painting l>y Walter Shirlaw. p. 96. hi l ter Hn in la w. 97 of the animals being a stout, buxom Bavarian woman. This canvas wasdisplayed at the exhibition of the Society of American Artists in 1878 inNew York. In the National Academy Exhibition of the same year Mr.Shirlaw appeared with a portrait of himself, and a picture of a nakedboy holding an impetuous dog by a string. One of his latest tasks hasbeen the furnishing of illustrations to a monthly magazine. His studio is inBooths Theatre Building at Sixth Avenue and Twenty-third Street. Lastyear he was teacher of drawing in the Art-Students League—a position whichthis year is held by Mr. William M. Chase, who also has recently returnedfrom Munich. Mr. Shirlaw was one of the leaders in the new movementwhich culminated in the formation of the American Art Association, after-ward called the Society of American Artists. He is the president of tinsorganization. Last June he was elected an Associate of th

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