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
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AT CHRISTMAS-TIME. FROM THE PAINTING BY GUSTAV HELLQVIST. tacle, it may be thought hardly worth painting. Nor can much more be said of our picture, The Transport of the Body of Gustavus Adolphus from the Harbor of Wolgast to Stock-holm. It is an academically painted subject, but while perhaps it drives in the trite lessonof the uncertainty of human greatness, it never seems quite the fair thing to do by a brave 348 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. man, to choose the hour of failure and defeat as a theme to commemorate. In the small bitfrom peasant-life which we copy, Hellqvist shows more natural, and seems more within thetrue bounds of his talent. These children have been to the wood to cut a tree for Christmas;they are enjoying the merry sledge-ride home, little brother manfully pushing, and his sister,well muffled up, with an eye to the tree that rests on the sledge before her. The air is full of
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SWEDISH COAST-SCENERY,FROM A PICTURE BY ALFRED WAHLBERG, BELONGING TO MESSRS. KNOEDLER & CO, snow, the trees are loaded with the gathered flakes, and in the wayside shrine that sheltersthe rude image of the Crucified, there hangs a star, placed there by pious hands to recall thenight of His birth. But it cannot be said that there is anything in the picture from whichto guess the artists nationality. A hundred German artists, with brush, and pencil, andgraver, have treated similar subjects in a language no way diffeient, and with results neitherbetter nor worse. Alfred Leoxakd WAiiLBEnG, born at Stockholm in 1834, is a landscape-painter of a ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 349 mucli higher order. He acquired the rudiments of his art in Diisseldorf, but it was fromCorot and Daubigny, with whom he studied later in Paris, that he learned to look at thelandscape from within, and to inter^jret rather than merely to copy it. His pictures ofNorthern scenery are not translated into the dialec

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