Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1908 — Rare Art in Painting. [ARTICLE]

Rare Art in Painting.

The Long corn show is no longer confined to nature alone for its attractiveness, art having taken a hand in making it a success. Two oil paintings were hung in the corn display window Tuesday evening that are attracting a great amount of attention. They are the product of the painting art of Miss Flora Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. BenJ. Harris. One of the pictures is of an overturned basket of red and yellow corn. Miss Harris’s father brought to her studio a basket of corn, which she overturned and theri artistically arranged the ears, shelling a few grains of yellow corn and laying the grains carelessly on the flbor; No artist ever painted a picture more real; Every shade is perfect, every ear and grain and the exposed parts of the cobs are as perfect as the subject from which paint ed. The other picture is also a corn picture, showing the long rows of shocks leading back to a wood fall tinted' by the early frosts. This, tco, is ,J a splendid picture, and one can stand fora Tong time and study the works. ‘ J They 'must be seen to understand their full beauty and nature lovers should not fail to see them during the time they are displayed at Long’s drug store. .’ ■’ ; --1 in' f i ■Wuns '1 ,rtji 1 iSi " One HWfi wa§ shot to death and several dtherd WoUhded in a battle between two bands of political feudists in NeW York. ~ i