Show i I PiCtURES IDA T LOOK LIKE c LIVING THINGS SHOWN HERE t- t k el t r t t J i T. T P w cr crA I Ir A r ti r r l k r i 1 X F I j r 4 y yf t. t 3 j f I a I i i 0 r ti tiTHE THE TIlE PAINTER OF FARM LIFE MRS E E. E MORRISON GROUT Do you rou love art If f yon do you vou arc are discriminative tivo and want to tu seo tho best beat If you havo individuality and in independence in in- dependence and developed Jc and you ou are arc u u. c connoisseur you can go o into an obscure shop whore J paintings arc are hun hung an and often often of of- ten discover a masterpiece as greet great red iu us any ever painted by a or u a Titian rWan only the centuries have not nut sot Jot their seal of merit upon th them m as yet et ct Of this class are the paintings s exhibited e this week at Keith O'Brien's by tho the 1 A L painter farmer Montgomery Ho lie Hois lieis is is au an eY evangelist st in his wor work ho he paints tho divinity of common thin things s. s This eccentric poet poet pher said Years 3 ago 0 I was vas walking alon along a 1 street in Paris and I taw saw saw tonsorial artist artist artist ar ar- on a barber polo I have been plain painter man painter mau ever since To Amy my question Where were you you born born he answered with a whimsical smile mile and aDd a shrewd shrew expression of oe eye I I Iwas was born when quite young youns in Illi nos nois Oh I said aid understanding at once I I promise promise not to do it a again if ifs you youvon OU wont ont t the hea head har hard von rap mo nio on t bO o Ho Ito lau laughed au hed h d heartily an and we were the tho best o or of friends at once I never took u Ii lesson on in n my n life from from a professional dauber ho lie baldI bald I I 1 have been working this out for forty years b by See thia 1 He pointed to a picture ed they tho all are aie My ly life all ull seemed to poi point t to this until it was painted and andall andall all aU mv nw nib nib- life Hie seems to look back at this thill lIe he said bald I I receive an au income of OOOO from that picture Thinks of Baby I This picture is tho the famous Down 11 0 I on the Farm Farro arm hUll hung huir in the Paris salon I from which he tc receives a yearl yearly rental This Thais is the picture which will rill ill keep I I nw my baby habr out of the he said Then nice the radiant whimsical mile lit ht up UJ hi his od odd face fuce once wore What sort i ia of a picture was it Tu Just t a a ba bag of corn on vu a b Il rn floor hoer with wilh the ears cars ot of I I yellow grain tumbling out and another real half empty sack sit silting sating tin beside it it 1 But so 50 true were they to detail and nd color tones so perfect they stood out from rom the tho canvas Not the work of an 10 impressionist but finished wonderful work tho the sort that the nearer you got the better it wa was lIe He raid haid to m mv nn- nd od i miring exclamation I HI am un a realist of the realists b a j of pf the pharisees pharisees in art So h he is ie but its it's not brutality in ill realism such as i is coloring our modern i i taste for tor or literature but an au idealized realism which lets the God li light ht through He lie talks much of himself and its it's most for forgivable lb There rc is 13 great at of or expression sion epi epigrams cpi epi- prams grams rams wit pathos dashes of deepest philosophy chase each ench other so flO rapi rapidly rabidly l you ou can catch with your with your O gt cur cu- cu r deavor perhaps a te tenth th part of it but you have lost loel altogether the personality t t t of the man in in trying tn to write it down words seem such buck imbecile things anyhow any an- how 3 f His 1 Freakish Clothes lie ire said I suppose he lie read my thought I am not an egotist to The distinction was fine but I came carno to his platform at once h I am a thinker an and a aman man of oJ lade r and und he lIe looked down at the tho sort ort o of non nondescript suit he was wearing wear wear- sag ing and we both laughed 1 Now Non this hat I bou bought ht m in Salt Salty y 1 j La Ia Lake UP lw f Ho lie t twirled wil cd it with j h. h r t a b humorous 6 look on hi his forefinger cr a n wide willo brimmed straw It raw with hi high 11 crown small checks in colorI colorI color I jI told 01 my uty landlady dy I had haa bought this suit piecemeal within a u ra radius ius of 1000 miles Couldn't bu buy it all in in one ono know I IThe place you yon The oddity of the costume 1 I suppose is is the reason for his bis smoothly shaven face and short hair r genius of the male variety usually cultivate all its hirsute hir hir- sute suto appen appendages aos it its it's 8 got ot to come out 1 some way Just here a t largo large woman came cause in in looked looke mildly around a little I distastefully at tho the artist and asked 1 to see e Daniel Dnniel in tho the Lion s Den I Denial iu in the Lion Lions Lion's 5 Den Deng J a a little slur blur on the j denial and a squint of a liw smile lc lit nt me ore out of or tho the tail o of his bb I e eye c to see sea if I was catCh catching n tho the humor of tho the thing Oh it was wa delicious I His Hi voice an and manner were quite courteous I hD have no such picture but if you vou look about th the patch madam you may fin find sumo somo things which will interest t you vou Farm Pictures The woman must have ba boen sleepwalking sleep p. p walkin walking for sho she gave ao a cursor cursory glance lance about and walked out And Ancl yet here the tho artist t had hall succeeded i ii irr pa painting a soul HOUI I I- Ibay say bay this thin because USe all real art sums suns itself into expression and aud expression sion siou means u. u soul revealed Stra Strasburg bur cathedral is is but the material counterpart counterpart counter part of Erwin of Stein Steinbach Another of tho the painters painter's best paintings is entitled Visiting Day in m the Farm Yard In the foreground a ace o live hens brooding their ir little ones at the same sameI I time tune the thc go l up A YOU on can cin j pe e it in in the tilt of ot the heads buds and noses so nO C so O human I Quite Quito another picture it is called Engaged En En for the Set Way back in m in a barrel is a hen brooding on a nest and anda a lordly rooster stalks in in ru front on watch But there thero arc are other subjects apples by the peck landscapes one landscapes one of ot these a sunset in m which t the colors are arc not glorious glorious not gorgeous or i 1 admired it much I I was waR fourteen years yeal's painting that he said Jt Jl must mut ha have taken longer than thatto that thatto in light to have gotten such perfection in and shade in the the mixture of color tones for m mv my senses told mo me he was a ft creator not an imitator in the world of artists Then there was S a wheat wheatfield wheatfield field in in autumn with the wheat standing standing stand stand- in ing in shocks hocks and in the foreground were groups of chickens eating the thc grain rain They The were Wele very ery small in in proportion proportion pro pro- portion to the Canvas and the artist held field up a huge huse D magnifying iu glass Il against them What did it do dolI dot dol I Looked Like Life Lite Made lade them then live Ih-e. and e every ery r detail of their anatomy color all aU was as s per per- feet as in life The e same can b be sai said of I the other animals painted Particularly would I speak of n a group coup of sheep as Be perfect quite a athose as those which Millet has made famous inthe iu in iu I the Knitting Shepherdess Shepherded One isa is isa I Ii historical l Tecumseh I i a pointing painting of the trail which leads lead to the battlefield of I Tippecanoe This represents represents' autumn I and you vou can see far down the trail inthe in m the tho deep dank shadows over o which I leaves lc from the thc bends a glory lory of autumn branching trees at either side above o which a cloudy cloud sky broods brood Another is the tho battlefield itself The Tho boles of the trees studding it are lire there thore but the I upper parts are cut by bv the canvas amas 1 The he coloring faithful adherence to detail and wonderful perspective c of this man mans man's s painting It is is these qualities which ho hold bold d the and attention and give i e YOU ou a desire dc de sire eye ere sire re to fathom this farm farmer painter farmer Hes He's a character Go and ami see I append append append ap ap- pend his his his' confession of faith faith j As As allied to the processes of education education in culture culture culture cul cul- cul- cul tion hon art influences in advancing nd aD advancing ture stand as 36 elemental Aristotle says Art Att is the very nature of man and ana and cocksure cocksure cock cock- of decaying decaying decaying decay decay- sure lurl schemes are symptoms ing peoples Conscious knowing and consistent i doing embraces the art of living theart theart the theart art of arts Wide discussion of things s artistic and scientific as 35 related relate to every day da- living is becoming a preoccupation these days davs ays Art appeals to the emotions emotions is is fraternal fra- fra and evangelistic e in iu spirit socks seeks ks right relations and in its last analysis is a deeply religious and livin living thin thing On every ery hand men meu are arc emerin emerging out of the the fo fog is clear- clear and J giving place to plain vision cober and march of ideas idea encl I The The American idea i is developing f e inthe inthe in inthe the rule of Demos and the pseudo halfbreed halfbreed half half- breed is is s bein being hidden and lost in m the pur pure product sin sui l of the wet western rn I ci civilization iou |