Decorative Painting and Alexander Hamilton
The growing taste in the United States for decorative painting, as shown in the costly decoration of many recent structures, public and private, gives special timeliness and interest to a paper by Mr. Will H. Low, in McClure’s Magazine for April. Mr. Low, by his well-known ceiling in the Waldorf Hotel and other work of this kind, is himself closely identified with the new movement; and in this paper he touches upon the origin and extent of it, and then considers, biographically and critically, the three greatest masters of decorative painting in recent times. The paper is richly illustrated with reproductions of celebrated paintings by Paul Baudry, Puvis de Chavannes, and others. A series of portraits of Alexander Hamilton and his wife, all from originals painted or drawn from life, accompany a very interesting paper on Hamilton, in both his public and private life, by the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge. The S. S. McClure Co., New York City.