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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toy-boats in the central park. FROM THE PAINTING BY WM. M. CHASE. BY PERMISSION OF MESSRS. KNOEDLER & CO. Mr. A. W. Drake, well known among artists as the manager of the art-department of the then Scribners Magazine, now the Century, a man quick to perceive merit, and synijoa- thetic and generous in his encouragement of rising talent. He warmly welcomed Blums work, and gave him commissions in plenty for more drawings. The interest excited by the III 282 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. appearance of Blums first work in the magazine for 1879 and 1880 is still fresh in the mindsof its readers. In 1880 Mr. Blum visited Europe for the first time, making an extended tourin England and on the continent in company with Mr. Drake, and sending home a greatmany sketches, chiefly of scenes in Venice. In the years that intervened between his first andsecond visits to Europe, Blum occupied himself with working up the sketches he had accumu-lated in Venice, and in Madrid, Toledo, and Seville. To th

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