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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
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FUN AND FRIGHT. FROM THE ORIGINAL PAINTING BY GAETANO CHIERICI IN THE CORCORAN GALLERY, WASHINGTON, D.C. much attention in Paris, Mestscherski and Orlovski: the former excelling in winter scenes,the latter preferring the more smiling aspects of the Russian summer. Other names arethose of Vassilieef, Volkofe, and M. C. Klodt, all of whom represent faithfully, thoughwith varying technical skill, the characteristic features of Russian scenery: its dense forests,its wide marshes, its alleys (»f silver-birch; its sxinny meadows divided by slow streams andpastured by sheep and cows; its desolate wintry coasts overhung by laboring clouds.
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a polish VILLAGE-NOVEMBER. FROM THE PICTURE BY A. WIERUSZ-KOWALSKI. BY PERMISSION OF MESSRS. CASSELL & CO. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. ■ 335 Almost every department of Russia: Finland, Siberia, the Crimea, Cancasus, Poland, has produced its artist. Several names of Polish artists have come to the front: Kowalski von WiEKUTZ, residing in Paris, the painter of On the Road—Poland, and many subjects of a similar character. His pictures are often seen in our American galleries. A more widely-known Polish artist is Siemeradski, whose subjects are of a highly sensational order. His The Living Torches of Nero has been frequently engraved. The contribution of Italy to modern painting has not been of great value. A few names have made an American as well as a European reputation. Perhaps the most distinguished among these names is that of Alberto Pasini who is not to be confounded with Ludwig Passini (see Vol. II., p. 166). Michetti is the painter of Italian peasant-children who represent

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