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Best specimen of card printing ; Henry Arthur Starr, Milwaukee. Bronze 



medal. 

 Best specimen of book printing ; Rufus King & Co., Milwaukee. Bronze 



medal. 



The Committee in their report say "the collection of paintings and 

 drawings submitted to our inspection, composed a highly ornamental 

 portion of our Fair, and one creditable alike to our artists and to the 

 State. 



*' The collection was one varied and extensive, embracing portraits, 

 landscapes and fruit pieces in oil, miniatures on ivory, fruit and flower 

 pieces in water colors, colored crayon drawings, a variety of chalk and 

 pencil drawings, and excellent specimens of daguerreotypes. 



" Where there was so much merit, and in a department where a correct 

 estimate requires a cultivated taste, there would naturally be a diversity 

 of opinion. Yet in the collection were many productions, whose merits 

 were generally acknowledged. In regard to the award of the first pre- 

 mium, there was but one opinion entertained alike by the Committee and 

 by the artists present. As to the award of the second premium, there 

 was more difference of estimation. Taking into consideration excellence 

 of drawing, merit of design, simplicity and harmony of color, with facility 

 of execution, the Committee are satisfied that they have not greatly 

 erred . 



" Of those artists, who, though they Avere awarded no premium, pre- 

 sented works which elicited the commendation of all, proper menticm 

 must be made in this report. 



" In the first place, we would notice a small portrait in oil, by Ilend- 

 rick Vianden, of Milwaukee, which was indeed a choice specimen, admir- 

 ably drawn, and deeply and harmoniously colored, while the arrangement 

 of light and shadow Avas both simple and effective. The same artist had 

 other paintings exhibited, all showing his ability, but none equal, we 

 think, as a real work of art, to the little picture we have mentioned. 



" Next in order, we must notice a portrait in oil, by Isaac Dorward, of 

 Milwaukee, excellent alike in drawing, in proportionate development of the 

 various parts of the head, and as a work of art generally. A fine por- 

 trait indeed, though, we think, rather too luridly colored, and rather 

 too highly worked in the details. We care not for the manner of the ex- 



