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Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (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
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Carlyle and of the artists mother, Mrs. Whistler, are the best known. We copy that ofCarlyle exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877. This picture has lately been jDurchasedby the City of Glasgow. Julian Alden AVeir, known as Alden Weir, is a younger son of the late Robert AY.AVeir, an artist of the older school known by a number of genre pictures very popular in theirday, and by his Embarkation of the Pilgrims in the rotunda of the Capitol at AVashington.Alden AA^eir was born in 1852 at West Point, where his father was for many years Professorof Drawing in the Military Academy. Tlie son has achieved an important position among theyounger artists of his time. He was taught the rudiments of his art by his father, and after-ward studied in France at the Beaux-Arts, returning to his own country to live and work,with occasional flying visits abroad such as in the jiresent state of the art-world here athome every artist needs for encouragement and sympathetic support. Mr. Weir has per-
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UJ t -• < z I I Lj a: T O I- a o ? o IT o UJ IH ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 261 force painted a number of portraits, among tliem those of his father and of Olin L. Warner,the sculptor, both capital works, but his chosen field is genre of the more poetic kind, andlandscape. He has painted several female heads, and in the Metropolitan Museum is a paint-ing of a Mother and Child which won the prize offered by the American Art Associationin 1888, and was presented to the Museum. The picture which we copy, The Muse of Music,is one of Weirs most successful achievements in the ideal field. Black-and-white makes al)oor medium by which to translate the tenderness and the inward glow of a picture like this.Mr. AVeir has of late worked much in pastels, and so far as the tone in which he paints is con-sidered, a marked change is noticeable in his pictures, which are now as light as they used tobe dark. But to us this seems not a fundamental change, but a development. The suc-cinct way of lo

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