The book of the fair; an historical and descriptive presentation of the world's science, art, and industry, as viewed through the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 (1893)
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918 · Chicago, San Francisco, The Bancroft Co. · leaf 151
of them turning to seize its prey—the hand of the lifeless sailor. In fishing scenes there are none to be preferred to Ancher’s “Fishermen Returning Home.” As a figure painter, especially of fisher folk, he has few superiors, his plastic modelling, bold delineation, and symphony of coloring showing… … THE JEWS IN THE DESERT. JERNDORFF Matthiesen’s “Cart Horses by the Seine” is a powerful animal painting, one of the horses being in angry controversy with the driver, while the other listens with knowing look. But here is something more than an animal painting, reproducing, as it does, the…
