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Title: Stories Pictures Tell
Book One

Author: Flora Carpenter

Release Date: May 21, 2010 [EBook #32471]

Language: English

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STORIES
PICTURES TELL

BOOK ONE

_By_
FLORA L. CARPENTER
_Instructor in drawing in Waite High School, Toledo, Ohio_

_Illustrated with Half Tones from
Original Photographs_

RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
CHICAGO NEW YORK

_Copyright, 1918_
BY RAND MCNALLY & CO.

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THE CONTENTS

SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER PAGE

"Feeding Her Birds" _Millet_ 1

"Children of Charles I" _Van Dyck_ 10

NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, AND JANUARY

"Four Little Scamps Are We" _Adam_ 21

"Madonna of the Chair" _Raphael_ 27

FEBRUARY AND MARCH

"Miss Bowles" _Reynolds_ 35

"Two Mothers and Their
Families" _Elizabeth Bouguereau_ 42

APRIL, MAY, AND JUNE

"Can't You Talk?" _Holmes_ 48

Review of Pictures and Artists Studied

_The Suggestions to Teachers_ 53

THE PREFACE

Art supervisors in the public schools assign picture-study work in
each grade, recommending the study of certain pictures by well-known
masters. As Supervisor of Drawing I found that the children enjoyed
this work but that the teachers felt incompetent to conduct the
lessons as they lacked time to look up the subject and to gather
adequate material. Recourse to a great many books was necessary and
often while much information could usually be found about the artist,
very little was available about his pictures.

Hence I began collecting