Identifier: whatpicturestoseea00brya (find matches)
Title: What pictures to see in America
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855-1933
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Publisher: New York, J. Lane Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he is so disdainful of details that we
fail to catch the impression—due perhaps to
our stupidity. It is not so in the gypsy girl.
No one could possibly mistake this child of
sunny Spain. Again Murillo's " Beggar Boys"
are before us, but with an added element drawn
from the new world. Mr. Henri's broad syn-
thesis of Spanish characteristics in the happy-
go-lucky children of the vagabond race—who
may originally have come from Egypt—is that
of one who sees racial traits as well as those of
environment. The picturesque quality in this
free child of nature is perfectly bewitching.
The wide-set eyes that twinkle with fun index
her innate sense of the artistic—not that she
knows anything about being artistic. How
the dusky hair, drawn back from her low broad
forehead, tones with her brilliant shawl and
rown skin, and how the light loose frock in-
tensifies the smiling face. The whole picture
centers in that face, for in it the artist has
not only typified the Spanish gypsy girl, but a
particular gypsy girl.
Text Appearing After Image:


Fig. 212—Spanish Gypsy Girl. Henri. Delgado Museum of Art, New
Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS 315

Robert Henri was born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
in 1865, and is one of the leading teachers of
art in America. His several years of inde-
pendent study in Italy, Spain and France
broadened his understanding of the funda-
mentals as demonstrated by the masters of the
past, without in the least undermining the true
American spirit of his art.

CHAPTER XXIX
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, CARNEGIE PUB-
LIC LIBRARY

THE state of Texas is to be congratulated
that the Carnegie Library at Fort
Worth has one of Gilbert Stuarts splendid
portraits, with a perfectly authenticated his-
tory. This portrait is unique, too, in being
that of a lady who was a pupil of Stuart. Miss
Clementina Beach, the subject of the Por-
trait (Fig. 213), was one of those splendid
women who helped mould the young women of
our Republic. Miss Beach was born in Bris-
tol, England, and came to America about 1800,
when she was scarcely twenty-five years old.
In conjunction with Mrs. Saunders, she opened
a school for young women in Dorchester,
Mass. She was ambitious also to know some
thing of portrait painting, so between the years
1810 and 1815 she sat to Gilbert Stuart for this
portrait, and afterward copied the picture,
making it a standard for her own work. The

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