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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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breakers. The only hope of thecrew is the anchor. This has been thrown out. The natural question in everyheart, as the chain creaks and strainsand snaps to the dashing power of theangry waves, is: Will the anchor hold ? It is interesting to learn from the painterthat the inspiration for this picture wasa scene that he actually witnessed, where,fortunately, during a long period of fright-ful suspense, the anchor did hold, and thevessel reached a port of safety. In the painting itself there is a vivid-ness about the water and the clouds whichare heavy, thick, lowering and full ofangry life, which led an eminent criticimmediately he saw it to exclaim: There,that *s what I call water, real, live, angry,surgeful water. No one can look at itand not feel the swing and go, the lifeand power, the dash and fierceness, thehope and despair of it all. The rush ofwater, though tremendous and awful, isinspiring; the boat hugs its anchor-chain Digitized by Google Charles H. Grant: Marine Painter. 489
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Charles H. Grant, Pinx. •AT THE MERCY OF NEPTUNE. as if it knew its only safety lay in its stay-ing power. One feels the mighty forceof angry nature combatting the works ofpuny man. The whole composition ofthis picture is pleasing,—the careening ofthe vessel; the wave dashing up to itsmasts; the curling over of the breakers;the movement of the clouds and waves;the active life in the sails and ropes. Thecoloring also is effective and fine. Thispainting now has a place in the gallery ofR. A. C. Smith, Commodore of the NewYork Yacht Club. In December or January, almost anycold, frosty day, when everything cracklesand sparkles under the feet, any one ofthe residents of Hoboken coming over toNew York in the ferryboat may see sucha scene as Mr. Grant has painted in his Safe in Port. The great transatlanticliner limping into port, days overdue,with rigging, smokestack, rails, bow andsides covered with ice, and smoke lazilycreeping out of the stacks, tells her ownstory. She bears the scar

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