(Also called “The Harp of the Winds.”)

A CHILD’S GUIDE TO
PICTURES

BY
CHARLES H. CAFFIN
AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STUDY PICTURES”
New York
THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY
1908

Copyright, 1908, by
THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY
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Published, July, 1908
THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
[I.][The Feeling for Beauty][11]
[II.][Art and Her Twin Sister, Nature][21]
[III.][Nature is Haphazard; Art is Arrangement][30]
[IV.][Contrast][40]
[V.][Geometric Composition][55]
[VI.][Geometric Composition (Continued)][63]
[VII.][The Action, Movement, and Composition of the Figure][75]
[VIII.][The Classic Landscape][83]
[IX.][Naturalistic Composition][95]
[X.][Naturalistic Composition (Continued)][106]
[XI.][The Naturalistic Landscape][117]
[XII.][Form and Color][129]
[XIII.][Color][144]
[XIV.][Color—Values—Subtlety][160]
[XV.][Color—Texture, Atmosphere, Tone][180]
[XVI.][Color—Tone][204]
[XVII.][Brush-work and Drawing][219]
[XVIII.][Subject, Motive, and Point of View][230]

ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING
PAGE
[View on the Seine]Homer D. Martin[Frontispiece]
[La Disputá del Sacramento]Raphael[56]
[Jurisprudence]Raphael[66]
[The Manitou Lunette]E. H. Blashfield[86]
[Dido Building Carthage]J. M. W. Turner[92]
[The Sower]J. F. Millet[100]
[Young Woman Opening a Window]J. Vermeer[108]
[Crossing the Brook]J. M. W. Turner[118]
[Paysage]J. B. C. Corot[128]
[Washington Crossing the Delaware]E. Leutze[140]
[Prince Balthazar Carlos]Velasquez[168]
[The Little White Girl]J. M. Whistler[176]
[The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine]Correggio[192]
[Light and Shade]George Inness[202]
[Evening]Anton Mauve[246]