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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s, and, by so doing, make them less agreeable to the adoles-cent public, will be caref^^lly avoided by any artist with a keen eye to the market, and, as inthis case, the necessary ingredients of melancholy or sadness will be supplied by the subor-dinate details; the church-wall aforesaid, the grave-crosses, and the funeral wreath (not tooobtrusive) in the hand of the fair mourner! One can easily imagine an order given to thepainter by an enthusiastic admirer of pretty girls, for a replica of this very picture— Morecheerful, you know, sir; nothing sad, now, no reference to death or disagreeables of anysort!—and the painter with commercial alacrity, whisking-out the church and the grave-crosses, and the funeral-wreath, but leaving the face and figure of the girl untouched; thenputting in a busy background of street and houses, and people, and calling the picture Homefrom the Flower-market! Every one familiar with pictures knows that such transforma-tions are of every-day occurrence.
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o ^ i ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 207 In The Mourner, by Edmund Harburger, a picture owned we believe by the Metro-politan Museum of Art, we have a work of a very different quality from that of Seifert. Thishas been painted with the distinct purpose of expressing a certain sentiment by the wholecontents of the artists canvas, not merely by some subordinate details. And the successobtained is noteworthy, although from what we learn of the artists practice we should nothave looked for anything so serious. Harburger, who was born at Eichstadt, in 1846, wasemployed in a builders office until he was twenty, when he went to Munich, and studied with

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