DOI Heft:
No. 188 (October, 1912)
DOI Artikel:Parker, Charles A.: Mary L. Macomber
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43450#0409
Mary L. Macomber
Mary l. macomber
BY CHARLES A. PARKER
No better illustration of the truth
of the assertion that genius measures
up in proportion as the artist dares be himself can
be found than in the many creations of Mary
L. Macomber.
The initiative behind the courage of her origi-
nality, wherein the well-spring of our morality,
ethics and philosophy has been embodied by her
brush in many lovely figures, seems to have drawn
upon an exceedingly high order of conscientious-
ness to ideals. It can be said with truth that few
artists are more faithful to individuality than is
Miss Macomber, and her pictures each year
furnish fresh evidence of a constant growth in
power of allegorical expression and in colorative
effects. An exquisite purity of atmosphere per-
vades each new theme.
A decade or more ago Miss Macomber’s works
Copyright by R. C. & N. M. Vose
Collection of Roland C. Lincoln
THE NIGHTINGALE BY MARY L. MACOMBER
Copyright by R. C. & N. M. Vose
Collection of Mrs. M. L. Warren
SINGING STARS
BY MARY L. MACOMBER
showed the influence of the Burne-Jones-Rossetti-
Watts school and in such of her earlier creations,
as Memory Comforting Sorrow, Night and Her
Daughter, Sleep, and several previously painted
pictures, her partiality to this group of idealists is
plainly traceable. In more recent years, however,
her originality of subject in such pictures as
Springtime, Life, Singing Stars, The Nightingale,
Kissed Fruit, and her latest work, Spring, is un-
questionable.
Too often in these days a deplorable lack of
courage is evidenced in the treatment of artistic
ideas. A dilettantism of conception, a trifling
with themes of minor importance, an evasion of
the loftier subjects is clearly manifest. Material-
ism, too, has wrought greatly to the disadvantage
of imaginative treatment.
Thus it is with real pleasure that the lover of
high and noble conceptions views the charmingly
graceful and imaginative productions that the
painstaking effort of Miss Macomber has pro-
duced. Works of art are seldom more poetic and
more individual in conception than is Singing
Stars. Our abstract thought of life has been made
exquisitely tangible and concrete in her spirituelle
figure entitled Life—the idealized face of a girl
who holds the magic crystal ball in her slim
fingers. Here is courage, carefulness in execution
and an unquestionable imagery. Kissed Fruit is
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Mary l. macomber
BY CHARLES A. PARKER
No better illustration of the truth
of the assertion that genius measures
up in proportion as the artist dares be himself can
be found than in the many creations of Mary
L. Macomber.
The initiative behind the courage of her origi-
nality, wherein the well-spring of our morality,
ethics and philosophy has been embodied by her
brush in many lovely figures, seems to have drawn
upon an exceedingly high order of conscientious-
ness to ideals. It can be said with truth that few
artists are more faithful to individuality than is
Miss Macomber, and her pictures each year
furnish fresh evidence of a constant growth in
power of allegorical expression and in colorative
effects. An exquisite purity of atmosphere per-
vades each new theme.
A decade or more ago Miss Macomber’s works
Copyright by R. C. & N. M. Vose
Collection of Roland C. Lincoln
THE NIGHTINGALE BY MARY L. MACOMBER
Copyright by R. C. & N. M. Vose
Collection of Mrs. M. L. Warren
SINGING STARS
BY MARY L. MACOMBER
showed the influence of the Burne-Jones-Rossetti-
Watts school and in such of her earlier creations,
as Memory Comforting Sorrow, Night and Her
Daughter, Sleep, and several previously painted
pictures, her partiality to this group of idealists is
plainly traceable. In more recent years, however,
her originality of subject in such pictures as
Springtime, Life, Singing Stars, The Nightingale,
Kissed Fruit, and her latest work, Spring, is un-
questionable.
Too often in these days a deplorable lack of
courage is evidenced in the treatment of artistic
ideas. A dilettantism of conception, a trifling
with themes of minor importance, an evasion of
the loftier subjects is clearly manifest. Material-
ism, too, has wrought greatly to the disadvantage
of imaginative treatment.
Thus it is with real pleasure that the lover of
high and noble conceptions views the charmingly
graceful and imaginative productions that the
painstaking effort of Miss Macomber has pro-
duced. Works of art are seldom more poetic and
more individual in conception than is Singing
Stars. Our abstract thought of life has been made
exquisitely tangible and concrete in her spirituelle
figure entitled Life—the idealized face of a girl
who holds the magic crystal ball in her slim
fingers. Here is courage, carefulness in execution
and an unquestionable imagery. Kissed Fruit is
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