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House 
& Garden 
AMERICAN PRINTS AND THEIR USES 
Contemporary Work That Is 
Worthy and Inexpensive 
PEYTON BOSWELL 
T HIS article on the use of modern 
American prints in the home should 
be of interest to every man who has 
learned that expensive clothes of extreme 
style and a huge diamond stickpin fail 
to stamp him as a person of good taste, 
and to every woman who has learned 
that it is vulgar for her to go around in 
striking colors with nearly every finger 
laden with rings. In this social organ¬ 
ism of ours the minds of people have 
been fixed a good deal harder on making 
money than on standards of good taste, 
and it is a comforting thing to be able to 
hold the opinion, as many do, that we 
have at last reached a stage when we as a 
people are rich enough and old enough 
to transfer a lot of our emotions to cul¬ 
tural enjoyment. 
It is for the person with 
walls and without millions 
that this article is written. 
For it is possible, by utiliz¬ 
ing etchings and lithographs 
by contemporary artists, to 
surround one’s self with 
pictures that administer to 
true esthetic delight, with¬ 
out spending very much 
money. 
The average price of 
these contemporary prints, 
which are so worthy in an 
art sense that no multi-mil¬ 
lionaire need despise them, 
is less than $20 each. At 
the last annual exhibition 
of the society known as the 
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“Sheldrakes,” by Frank W. 
Benson, is a type of etch¬ 
ing which might be used 
almost anywhere, from 
dining room to nursery 
In “The Beeches—Central 
Park,” Henry B. Shope has 
made an etching com¬ 
panionable for the home 
and full of outdoor spirit 
“Brooklyn Bridge,” an 
etching by John Marin, 
makes a wall decoration 
of originality and beauty 
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The spirit of the 
windy open is admir¬ 
ably caught in Horn- 
b y’ s ‘‘Dans le s 
Champs,” a subject 
in the Marne region 
John Marin’s earlier 
style is less extreme 
in “Cour Dragon” 
than in his “Brooklyn 
Bridge.” An excellent 
etcking for the wall 
