Text Appearing Before Image: MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM. By Wm. O. Partridge by dissection, and the most careful measurements and comparisonone with another. The forest of Fontainebleau helped him withhis backorrounds because his artistic mind could find either adesert or a jungle there. The great Frenchman had the advantageof study in that greatest school of art at Paris, though he did not 382 FINE ARTS. follow its traditions in animal sculpture or painting. Nevertheless,he gained a certain finish there that our American artist lacks,while the latter, on the other hand, has a certain perfect naturalness Text Appearing After Image: PANTHER ANT) DEER. By Edward Kemeys^V, S which perhaps even Baryes great art could not compass. This muchmay be learned by observing the works themselves, but they donot tell where the artist learned to know the animals. Mr. Kemeyshas an intense fondness for the western life, and has been a greathunter. He spent a long time among the Indians. He huntedwith them and learned their life, and the life of the animals whichthey sought in their chase. He had many a thrilling adventure,and the animals he reproduces here were either slain by himselfor by his Indian friends, so that he was able to study them wherethey lived. Mr. Kemeys Still Hunt is perhaps the finest piece of animal FINE ARTS. 383 sculpture at the Fair. It is a wonderful animal, instinct with life.Every muscle is quivering with eagerness for the coming springupon the prey, yet the crouching attitude and the stern repressionof action show how the creature is holding back in absolute still-ness until the deer, all unsuspecting,
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