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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ntury; Modern Art, decorative panels designed for the gallery of M. Fiirsten-berg at Grothembourg, might serve for an emblem of this art of Sweden: supple, laughing,and full of character, amusing itself with sketches, with rapid notes of tender hamionies itmeets in nature, while waiting for the time when it shall be ripe for more serious things. Little is known among us of Swedish art, or of Scandinaviar art in general; and evenengravings and photographs of Swedish pictures are difficult to find here. The few picturesthat come to us from these Northern countries, are for the most part painted by artists living ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 343 in France and who have liad theii- traiiiiiig fhere, and the dealers import them with othersfrom the French market. One or two pictures by Hugo Sahnson, an artist born in Stock-holm and a pupil in Paris of P. C. Comte, have been bought in this country; one of them,A Woman Peeling Potatoes, lately owned by Mr. George T. Seney, made a favorable im-
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THE FISHERMANS DAUGHTER.FROM A PAINTING BY AUGUSTE HAGBORG BELONGING TO MESSRS. REICHARD & CO. pression on our public. Auguste Hagborg, born in Gothembourg, Sweden, lives in Paris,where, to judge by his style, he certainly had his training. He deals almost exclusively inhis pictures with seaside-folk, and his way of dealing with them recalls sometimes the Avorkof Haquette and again that of Feyen-Perrin. It is not always so sturdy and downright asthe former, nor is it often so mistakenly refined as that of the painter of Les Cancalaises.Yet while he apparently draws his subjects from nature, he seems to avoid showing them to 344 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TLME. lis just as they are: like the street Arabs and boot-blacks of our own J. G. Brown, his fisher-folk are too neat and too free from the scars and stains of their hard work-a-day world. Theexample of Hagborg that we copy is as good an illustration of his manner as could be shown.It is taken from a picture painted in ISSS for )Mr.

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