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Some Detroit Artists

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Day
22
Month
August
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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With the present rejolrins; over Mr. Melchers' suceess :it the last Paris salon, our readers may bc glad to have the followlng eitracts which relate to hls picture. The flrst Is from a letter written by MlM Ellen K. Baker, w!io herself lias a picture among the thouêands admittcd to this exhüiitlon, nd who judges from an artist's etaudpolnt, without any person.il acqualntance with the artist. She says lu thls letter: "Your Detroit boy, Garl Melchers, has without doubt the best American picture in the salon. It II called 'The Pilots.' Four or five stolid old chaps are sitting around a table near a wlndow; one is amuslng himself with the model of a ship and some smoke. One can see they are not garrulous men, but cool, Intrepld and used to danser. The types are excelleutly chosen and full of character. It Is uot u pieture to tickle the fancy, but thorouehly good. Detroit ought to buy It for its nevr gaüery." The next is from the pen of the able crltlc of the Paris Figaro, who 6ays, after mentlODtog the great induence of tlie French school on all foreign artista, and acknowledging reactionary Influence from only one- Josef Israels: "The best picture by a foreigner, 'The Pilots' of M. Melchers, 6inirs the praise of the modern French echool. It I at Pari, In our salons, that be has caught the llmpllclt; of the mise en sane and the sober exeeutlon. He could not have been thus oped in America, or in Heiland, where he sought bis subject, for that has no 'school,' properly speaking. This beiug uuderstood, I ronder full justice to the arrangement of this distinguished page (in art), to ite great sentiment of nature, and the profound Imptessioa ith:is producad." There are mauy other Detroit artists whose works are perhaps bettnr known in the city and state than those of Mr. Melchers. Coitaiuly there need bc no t-pecial mention of Mr. Lewls T. Ives, whose portraits of our leading men ipeak for thcinclru8, uoth tliose in the capítol at Lansmc; and tlie one3 that are in the private QfiUtet in the state. His son, Mr. Percy Ive, who was admittedtothe salon of 't7, has entered senously into the profeuloa and shows deep appreciation of nature and line pereeption of color. Miss Helen K. Roby is now studying in Paris, and mauy friends are aotlcipatlDg a successful future for her iu her own field of labor, Rower paintlng. Mr. Jules Kolshown haa had many fine pictures on exhibition in Detroit for some years. Thosc in the old Art Loan and the exhibition of '86 reeoived high encomiuins frorn .ill sides. lic is DOW iii Florence continuing his work, and a leader in on:1 of the art academies of that beautiful Itallan art center. Mr. Robert Hopltlns' praises are nlways on the lips of tho.se who are most familiar with the varions aspects of water in storm or calm, and who hesides aro able to tel) whether the draw ing of any soit of sca craft is correct. Mortimer L. Smith is a man of many tutea - and, fortuoately for us, paintlng is one, for no one succeeds botter than h Inportnytng tliat exquisita suuset glow on snow and lir trees whlcb malee oor winter landscapes 6o attractive. Mr. Cbarlet llarry Eaton lias obtainrd high houors in New York art clrclea, much admiration in his native town, and many of hls plctare adom our Michigan homes. Likc most artista, he is (breed to live where art is appreclated, and since he n nst live by his brush Detroit has had UI a good citfzen to anothcr stato. Mrs. E. G. Holden is a noted enthusiast In all art matters, belongs to the Museum :iM. iation, has for many years given instruottom in art and in every way sought to foster it in her own towu. Her Influence has been very ereat in the developiug of artistic tastes among the yoaog people. Mr. Hekkingis a forcignerbybirth and a great w&nderer by Datare, fur no place holds him lonu. Ele is wholly absorbed in his work, aml the mnnber oL his picturus in private gallerics attest, his popularity. There are manv oth"rs who are doini; good work, among them Wenzel, Conely, C. John Owen and Willlam Mylne, and who find ready sale for their worfcl. To very many of these artists a good art school wil' be a great boon in awakening intelligent interest in their work, and stiniulatiug them to more earncst ellorts. Upon the basis of religión all temples stand, and from their sentiment of a God all worsliip arises. From the sentiment of the beautiful in the soul spring tivc great fine arts (architecture, seulpture, paintlng, poetry, musie). Fromí the perception of justice comes luw; ' aud then from a soil as rich called j lence rise up a hundred 11csm-,I sbapet of i human welfare. There is not a ragged i 6chool or a mission school or free tchool] of design or a pubüe library in town or city that does not spring np ontoftbit principie of benevolence. - [David Swing.

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