Catalogue of works of art ... also views of the summer and winter homes (1884)
Bement, William B, Memorial Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.) · Philadelphia, Pa. : Commissioners of Fairmount Park · leaf 276
s aiming more at decorative effect and less at story. Yet he paintsnothing that is not intrinsically attractive, allowing his subject to take precedenceover his interpretation. Graceful women are his especial admiration. This pictureis more serious, both in matter and in manner, than those painted… … The Skippers Watch. GEORGE H. BOUGHTON. An amusing little double-enlendre. The bronzed old salt who sits upon thegravel of the beach is not only acting as watch upon an infantile charge, but hasresigned his old bulls-eye for its entertainment. The contrast between theweather-roughened face of the…
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