International studio (27.1905/1906(1906))

E. IV. Deining


MOOSE

BY E. W. DEMING


mentality, which can always be tapped in behalf
of anything Nature rejects, and the sad record of
agency scandals and the formal work of the
anthropologist, we know little beyond the military
fortunes of our evicted tenants. The Yankee in
Iking Arthur’s Court made a great impression with
his new-fangled ideas and his dynamite. But diel
King Arthur’s Court, with all the beauty of its
ideals and the poetry of its life, make any observ-
able impression on the Yankee? The Yankee in
the Stone Age has done little better.
Now, in our art, when it is very nearly too late,
the oustecl Indian returns. Our artists are among
the first to interpret the real significance of his life,
apart from its contact with the paleface invasion,
and in this work a high place will be accorded to
Mr. E. W. Deming, who knows the Indian west of
the Rockies, not
the shahby, imi-
tation citizen nor
thepaintedhowl-
e r o f heap-
b 1 o o d y melo-
drama, but the
simple savage,
the broodingsur-
vivor of an
earlier age, as
s o m e painters
know the Glou-
cester fisherman
or the F i f t h
Avenue heiress.
Mr. Deming has
been working
lately upon some
decorations for
the new summer

residence of Mr. Ernest Thompson-Seton at Cos
Cob that illustrate well the aims and interests of
his work. Reproductions are shown herewith of a
buffalo frieze and part of a frieze of mounted In-
dians that will decorate a large well-lighted “sun
parlour,” and studies of moose and elk to hang at
either side of a staircase hallway.
The colour of Mr. Deming’s work is so important
that the reduction to black-and-white introduces a
misleading Suggestion of baldness. The buffalo
frieze is a transcript of the open plain under the
inappeasable sun of the Southwest. Placed at one
end of the sun parlour, the side panels set at a
slight angle to the centerpiece, it will give an open
expansive sense to an already commodious room,
and in the brilliant hues of the foreground and the
burning sky, sharpened by the shadows of bison

STUDY FOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY
BY E. W. DEMING

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HIAWATHA’S FIGHT
WITH THE WEST WIND

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