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"Ah, I have a little taste for the antique," replied M. Marchand. "This is repulsive it is a frightful face. Were it in my collection, monsieur, it would quite spoil my pretty bits of scenery." He tossed the canvas carelessly aside, and finally chose a couple of water-colors, both showing picturesque nooks of Paris. "I should like to have these," he said, "if monsieur is willing to name a price."
Every turn of the head, the set of the chin, the droop of the long, thick lashes on the soft cheek, the fling of a gesture, the cadence of her voice; they all delighted and fascinated him. She was a living embodiment of joy-in-life, of love personified. She packed her sketches and her paraphernalia with businesslike directness, careless of whether he did or did not see her water-colors.
He had the kind of sensitiveness, or self-esteem, if you will, that frequently goes with a mind confident of its merits, but not indifferent to criticism or sufficiently elevated and aloof to dispense with resentment. In 1832 he sent to the Salon his Lion Crushing a Serpent, and in 1833 he sent a dozen animal sculptures, a group of medallions and six water-colors.
Coming at last to our text, Water-Colors the art of depicting nature on a sheet of white paper by paints diluted with water it will be well to remind you that the art goes back to almost prehistoric times. A few weeks ago, in the library of Mr. Jesse Carter, director of the American Academy in Rome, I saw one of the earliest water-colors in existence.
Four or five days later he sat in his bedroom, looking over a number of water-colors that covered the counterpane and largely obscured the pillows views of Green Lake, scenes from the rocks and gorges of the upper Wisconsin. "I've done very well," he thought "very well, indeed." He was trying to make himself believe that he had successfully accomplished the principal object of his trip.
There were fine old Persian rugs on the floors, exquisite oils and water-colors on the walls; and rare Japanese silk tapestries hung between the doors. In one corner of the living-room was a bronze jar filled with artificial cherry blossoms; in another corner near the door, hung a flat bell-shaped piece of brass a Burmese gong.
Her first picture, called 'Un Regard Fugitif, won for her a medal of the third class." <b>GREY, MRS. EDITH F.</b> Member of the Society of Miniaturists, Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colors, Bewick Club, and Northumbrian Art Institute, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Born at the last-named place, where she also made her studies in the Newcastle School of Art, and later under private masters in London.
The next speech changed her into a flushed and palpitating girl. "Mr. Gael wishes to know, madam," the man-servant recited his lesson automatically, "if you have seen the exhibition of Foster's water-colors, Fifty-eighth Street and Fifth Avenue. He wants to know if you will be there this afternoon at five o'clock.
While he was in New York I was a reporter on the Evening Sun, but I cannot recall ever having read his name in the newspapers of that day, and I heard of him only twice; once as giving an exhibition of his water-colors at the American Art Galleries, and again as the author of a book I found in a store in Twenty-second Street, just east of Broadway, then the home of the Truth Seeker Publishing Company.
Most of the settlers who went with Lane were mere gold-hunters, but there were two who would have been valuable to any society the mathematician Thomas Hariot, who surveyed the country and wrote an account of the settlement; and John White, who made more than seventy beautiful water-colors representing the dress of the Indians and their manner of living.
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