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[[marginal note]] MAPLE SUGAR CAMPFIRE ---- [[/marginal note]]

[[STRIKE THROUGH]] JOHNSON WOULD DEAL WITH THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR A LIVING, AS HE WOULD ALSO IN SCENES OF CRANBERRY PICKING ON THE NANTUCKET BOGS.

NOT ALL THE ART PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY HAD THE ENDURINGNESS OF SOME OF THE EXAMPLES SHOWN.

[[marginal note]] WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELEWARE 1851 [[/marginal note]]

TAKE THE MAMMOTH LEUTZE [[UNDERLINE]] WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELEWARE [[/UNDERLINE]], NOW ON VIEW AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. ONLY ROSAS BONHEUR'S [[UNDERLINE]] HORSE FAIR [[/UNDERLINE]] CAN COMPETE WITH LEUTZE'S 149 1/16 X 256 1/16 ((6 1/4 X 199 7/16) INCH DIMENSIONS, THOUGH THE 38,000 SQUARE INCHES OF LEUTZE ARE DOUBLE ROSA'S 19,000. OF THIS LEVIATHAN, JARVES WROTE IN 1855 IN [[UNDERLINE]] ART-HINTS [[/UNDERLINE]], AFTER WARNING AGAINST DUSSELDORF SCHOOL:

"PICTORAL IS UNFROTUNATELY AS COMMON AS VERBAL RANT. EXAGGERATION OF PHYSICAL ACTION IS MISTAKEN FOR THE SPIRIT OF DEEP MENTAL EMOTION. THUS IN 'WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELEWARE," WE FIND THE MAN MOST NOTED OF ALL THE WORLD FOR SERENITY AND MAJESTY OF DEMEANOR, STANDING WITH SCENIC EFFECT IN THE STERN OF THE BOAT,