Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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e, as the immortal Dutchmen found at home their own topers and oldwomen, their market folk, and all their high-priced persons-of-the-drama. But times arechanged, and now if we want an apple-woman or a fisherman to paint, we must piit our footon the good ship-board and sail away from our own countrie to find it. It is even possibleto find at home the very things we are at such pains to travel for. A few weeks ago thewriter and a friend were walking, about sunset-time, along the icy roads on the outskirts ofthe town of Salem, in Massachusetts, when we met laboring along toward us an old woman,slightly bent with age, and carrying on her back a huge fagot such as we are so familiar within the pictures of Millet and Breton and their American disciples. All was there except the ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 277 wooden shoes—the thick petticoat, the strong bodice, the kerchiefed head, and, seeing it, weburst out into a fine declamation: Why, look at that! Think of our boys and girls travel-
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THE KNIFE-GRINDER. FROM THE PAINTING BY WALTER GAY. BY PERMISSION OF MESSRS CASSELL & CO. ling to Barbizon and Brittany to paint French peasants carrying fagots, when here at home are Salem peasants doing the same thing without a pennyworth of difference! You are all III 278 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. wrong, sa5s my companion: the neigliborliood of Salem is full of French settlers, and thisis one of them, as good a pathetic French peasant as ever Millet painted! By-and-by our

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