Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (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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thing; the presence of the doe, strayed, apparently, fromthe rest of the herd, adds no doubt to the impressiveness of the scene, and at first may seemto heighten the sense of wintry desolation. But by her action we may Judge that her matesare not far away, and just this little txxrn of the creatures head reassures us, and leaves usfree to enjoy the beauty of the snow-painting, the dark fir-forest, the skeletons of last sum-mers shrubbery showing through the drift, and the gleam of the glacier on tlie distant moun-tain side. Andersen-Lundby, the painter of A Mill-stream in Winter, hails from Munich, where,in 1883, at the Kunstausstellung, we saw two of his pictures — Fresh-faUen Snow, and On the Way to Market. The example of Lundbys art that we j^resent to our readers is a ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 285 very pleasing one, and shows winter in a more human and comfortable aspect than we saw itin August Finks picture; we have it here intimately associated with domestic life, and sug-
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WINTER IN THE MOUNTAINS. FROM THE PICTURE BY AUGUST FINK, gesting onljr cheerful thoughts. The dark mill-stream runs through the middle of the pic-ture, not frozen, though black with chill, and hurrying to get within reach of the millershospitable house, where it can hear the sound of human voices, and see the light gleaming 286 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. from the windows. The trees are thickly powdered \\ith snow, and it lies in a soft warmblanket of whitest wool over the rock-strewn ground at their feet. On the other side of thestream a meadow stretches far and wide; we can trace through its white expanse the courseof the main water that turns away from the mill pond after supplying the race; a man and awoman liave just crossed the bridge that spans this stream, and are making for one of thehouses of the settlement about the mill. The smoke rising straight upward in the still even-ing air, speaks of warmth and homely cheer. This pretty picture might be an illustration ofEmersons S

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