Identifier: howtoshowpictur00hurl (find matches)
Title: How to show pictures to children
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924
Subjects: Art -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Boston, New York Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rld is not quite worthy
the entire life devotion of a master, but a few have
forcibly refuted this error and their work reveals un-
dreamed-of possibilities in this direction. When you
put the lion of the ten-cent picture book beside the
lion of Barye, you see the difference between repre-
senting the outer skin and the real leonine nature. One
is a stuffed museum specimen, and the other is the
king of beasts.
The child's first animal pictures are single figures,
as are his first pictures of children. The simple ob-
ject, without accessories, appeals directly to him,
and is most easily understood. Of course, it would
be impossible to make a complete collection of sin-
gle animal figures from masterpieces of art, but one
can get a goodly number of subjects from Landseer
and Rosa Bonheur. Landseer's Newfoundland, and
the head My Dog are good examples. Some fine
animal heads are among the works of Rosa Bon-
heur, as the shepherd's dog of the Wallace collection,
the mastiff, Flambau, and the companion subjects
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Fr. Hanfstaengl, photo John Andrew & Son sc.

A DISINTGUISHED MEMBER OF THE HUMANE SOCIETY

National Gallery, London

ANIMAL PICTURES 87

sometimes called Peace and War, a horse and a
lion. The child's first favorites are his domestic pets, the
dog, the cat, and the bird. Next come the farm ani-
mals which the kindergarteners describe as the child's
friends, the hens which give him eggs to eat, and the
cow which gives him milk to drink, the sheep which
give their wool for his clothes, the horse which carries
him to and fro, and the oxen which draw his heavy
burdens. Then come the creatures of the woods, the
rabbits, squirrels, fox and deer, the beasts of the jun-
gle, the lion and the tiger, the strange creatures of
polar regions and the mythical monsters of old poetry
and legend.
All children are delighted with pictures of children
with their pets, like Hoecker's little Dutch girl with
a kitten, who has won so many child friends. Such pic-
tures are not strictly animal art, but often their chief
charm to children is the pet — the first thing to ex-
claim over as they fall upon the picture with rapture.

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