| Show JIOSliEK THE AllTIST HE rLOUmSHBD DUniNO THE LATE CIVIL WAil The Mtr klurr In lUrpee Meekly VVrr one UK Unit Sltatle Vnfk I line IlKenllr flnUheil it IVitnllnx 1IlIn I lInn lanroua I NE of the consplc thereston reston it f j uou picture in I the current exhibition I 0 nt the radetny if t JE Design In the IirK I ruilui lion in the T north cillery entitled Altl tled leant Mo w minil It Is I a 1 s > 1i death ocean In nn r II old I Kuropoin Interior Inte-rior Th mibject render It anything I but cheerful yet the ollhAlur t affixed tu the work mint cent the mini ct many u liltor pleasantly pleas-antly back to the early sillies and our civil war The artist Henry glacier tame Into considerable prominence then lit wa A lad In Clnclnnntl the city of his birth Major Anlerson wa there Just utter the bombirlmcnt of Tort Humlir and Mr Mosler aw him throughout the festivities Incident to Mc passage through the place lie mal tonic sketche apropo ot the neon Ion in I tent them to the editor of liar l > er a Weekly They were promptly no repted and their author woe commissioned commis-sioned out at hum to act a the speclsl nrllst In the west for the periodical at Hut time foremost the pictorial cite brilljn or the war Mr Mailer started far Loulvllle and iketcheil episode In the trouble thereabout Wllhln a short time he met Sherman who gave him a rather blurt reception but he was soon nt home In military life and made friend with the commander who at fret teemed to doubt that so young n man could be nn > thing but an Db true lion at the front He now the battles of Mumfonlsvlllc IVrrsllle Hamersel Shiloh and Pltlshurg Landing beside ninny namdeei minor action In va rloua part if Kcnluck Tennc see Mlwlnil 11 I and Alabama All through thin iierloil I Mr Moiler sent sketches out correspondnco to llarpir Weekly and oil I reader nf the paper will rememtter the spirit and I lcturesuene of bin work In iwu he threw up 1u rommli Ion and N nt to New York en route for LA 11roMwnrrr t ho oonlempUled a tug course of artistic Mil 1Y111 employer In the Ivan were aitonlshol when they hw him They hail expected an 011 ler man llut already Mr 1 Mosler had con nnm I the fallh which hid been placet In hla work ant not long after his arrival ar-rival In lurIe he showed even inure conclusively that his talent were of n milmtintlal character He entered nt cure upon a career which hu been un tJJF 1 K l A r j f > 4 JPH I II i I t nI r7 I HRNItT MOSLRIt ARTIST broken In its cure ens and has recently brought him back to America to settle with n consciousness of work well dune and well rewarded When Mr Mauler departed for Europe the Dusieldorf school was In II glory and he went Irilght In that center of Herman thorouihmra and sentiment lie found much there that eitabllihed him In hU art but It was hot long before the Influence In-fluence nf Paris begin to move him and > IM proceeded to the Trench capital He entered the atelier of lichen the nmti whom refined and stately style wa for wine yehrc the preildlnic example at the Villa McMcln In Home Mr 1 Mauler protltud by the thoughtful nlraln In his mauler He nUll hlmiclf In the pall to nhlch he hud Kravltuted from the be glnnliiK n path In which inthlni v < acer > a-cer thought worth doing unless IIi I nerved nerloua purpo He camo back I to Amerlia with n profound illitaite for elite for fricmeiitary und almleia sketching Ito brought nn enuilly profound pro-found enthuiluam for well pandered ooinrHinltlonii In 1ST ho returned to Kurope but for Home reason or other the Tirlilan air was not II atlraellto as iMfore and he beeame Illaty pupil In Munich letttlnzln the flat arlan city for three year At the end of that time Mi earlier feelings were reUed and he i went back to farts He hAl lived In thai city exhibiting at the Oil Halin tint winning honors there until only the other day when he came back lu New York To recapitulate here Mr Moileri ten onn > n > ii < abroad would be n dry and uteleM tank bat then li I one honor which It is l necessary to mention for rot creole to It brings back the memory of lila test work This picture 10 lie tour woo frt shorn In the Union In I 187 The KO ernmrnt eiplett and pur I cha ed It for the Luxembourg It nan the first time nn merlcan artist had Men IM > honored The chance of ad tnlMlun to the anteroom of tile French Pantheon were light for a Ion In lor from thl country II was only qf late years that the policy which tins admitted Whistler Sargent Macmonnle Alexander Alexan-der IUril > onand WTUannat his been In favor When Mr Mwler picture wn urchaed It wa III recognition of certain cer-tain goal qualities which at all time are rare HI nrll ha I not n brilliant one but It la I round It la I bused lint of all on the moat admirable of artlitle data that n picture should have not only the charm of color stout personal character but Intelligible form Intelligible con trucllon |
