| Show VISIT WAS MOST OPPORTUNE artist calls to exhibit work at mo went ment when its desirability was I 1 being discussed sonic some cars ago a publishing house housa was preparing to issue a new edition of tho the writings of thoreau writes charles S olcott in art and progress the head ot of the house and a member staff were in consultation about we the method of illustration it was agreed that the pictures must be true to nature but how to get them was the problem artists who do book illustrating could not be expected to go into the woods and make pictures which would in any way assist the text to reveal nature as thoreau saw it IL photographs would be admirable but where was the professional photographer to be found who would undertake to go into thoreau Thore aus a country la in sunshine and rain in summer and winter to catch all the phases ot of nature which thoreau recorded in his journal while the th two men pondered a caller sat in the outer office with a large portfolio under ills his arm P nyo lyo ayears before he had lead thor and had taken up his residence in concord that he might inight visit the scenes there described in all seasons and all kinds hinds ot of weather icat ber he had wandered through the woods and over the fields with ills his camera passionately siona slona tely fond of nature he was no less devoted to art arl to him photography was a pastime it was not ills his profession for the pure loll 1011 love e ot of 11 nature and of art and with no thought ot of pecuniary gain ho he had accomplished the very feat which the two bustness business meu men had bad thought so d difficult and by a curious coincidence he be appeared at the office to exhibit the result of his work at the precise moment when its desirability was being discussed |
