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Entrance to elephant house in the Bronx Zoological Park 

 IModel of African elephant head by Knight 



ing as the "Leopard with Flamingo" 

 which Brush pronounces of great imagi- 

 native merit — a picture good in com- 

 position, splendid in 

 technique, fine in 

 drawing, beautiful 

 in color, we distinct- 

 ly feel that criticism 

 is vain, that no other 

 painter in America 

 has perhaps ever 

 done so fine a pure 

 art thing of animals. 

 Also when we look 

 at such a painting 

 as the "Tiger and 

 Cobra," criticism is 

 vain for we are look- 



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ing at the work of a master 

 of color. 



It is worthy of note that 

 his pictures have no ear- 

 marks, unless the mural char- 

 acter might be termed such, 

 by which they can always be 

 recognized, as is the case in 

 the work of many artists. He 

 has apparently made no at- 

 tempt to imitate the work of 

 any artist or school of artists 

 or to follow along the line of 

 any style or technique in any 

 individual piece of his own 

 work. He attempts each 

 time to make a portrait or 

 an imaginative group true to 

 life and his own idea, with 

 an artistic setting, apparently 

 delighting in adjusting him- 

 self anew both to subject and 

 technique. 



We have heard little or 

 nothing in recent years how- 

 ever, either in Europe or 

 America of animal painters. 

 It has been true in the art 

 world that if a man did 

 not paint cattle or sheep, portraits, 

 figures, still life or landscape he did not 

 paint anything, the cattle, and sheep 



Book rest — One of the artist's small bronzes 



