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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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a: 31 O O z u. 9 OcoCO CO IZ uj o °- DC T n 2 n (r cc O n 1- z ^ o < 1-z ** < III T H ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 255 Great Sphinx, The Lost Mtad, etc., etc., but nothing in the pictures themselves bears outthe promise implied. Vedder is best, if he would but believe it, when he is dealing withsimple themes, but he is rarely content with these. The work by which he is best known ishis series of drawings in illustration of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In these heshowed his great skill in drawing, and a decided talent for decorative treatment, but the taskwas an impossible one: since the poem, purely subjective and meditative as it is, in nowise lends itself to Vedders confirmed objectiveness. The drawings themselves were exhib-ited in the various cities of this country, and in London, and were warmly received. Theywere afterward published in a reduced form, which did them injustice, so far as the drawingwas concerned. The picture we copy (see page 229) is an early one, and sho

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