Identifier: americanartamer01mont (find matches)
Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Moonrise. Drawn by Peirce. she can claim the first and the last as her own children; for the great woman-novelist was born in Loamshire (as she called it) about twenty miles from Stratford. The following pen-picture ofsome of her attractions was written by Charles Kingsleys daughter Rose. This midland county has a charm of its own. There is a peaceful beauty in the rolling grass-pastures as the sun catches the side of the lands, the ridge and furrow) that tell of cultivationhundreds of years old. Red and white shorthorn cows group themselves under the great elms andoaks, in whose tops the rooks are feeding their ravenous young. Down in the hollow the windingbrook — some tributary of the Avon — runs, fringed with aged pollard willows and hawthorns,through whose branches the wild roses toss straggling shoots all flecked with pale pink shell-likeblossoms. In the shallows the brown water races over bars of clay worn as hard as rock. In the
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THE DOLLS PARTY. DRAWN BY H. WINTHROP PEIRCE. AMERICAN ART 375 pools beneath the banks the black moor-hen lurks, or a stately heron watches for his prey. Beyondthe brook roll rich red fallows, now flushed with the pale green of growing wheat, or golden withripening grain. The farmhouse and buildings make a point of vivid color in the picture, their crudered toned down by purple shadows and soft browns and yellows among the stacks in the rick-yard.There are some suggestions for pictures in Miss Kingsleys lines of which Winthrop Peirce wouldmake delightful realities.

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