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Title: Stories Pictures Tell
Book Two

Author: Flora Carpenter

Release Date: May 23, 2010 [EBook #32489]

Language: English

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STORIES
PICTURES TELL

BOOK TWO

_By_

FLORA L. CARPENTER
_Instructor in drawing in Waite High School, Toledo, Ohio
Formerly supervisor of drawing, Bloomington, Illinois_

_Illustrated with Half Tones from
Original Photographs_

RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
CHICAGO NEW YORK

_Copyright, 1918, by_
RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY

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Made in U. S. A.

THE CONTENTS

SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER PAGE

"Shoeing the Bay Mare" _Landseer_ 1

"Angels' Heads" _Reynolds_ 13

NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, AND JANUARY

"The First Step" _Millet_ 21

"A Fascinating Tale" _Mme Ronner_ 29

FEBRUARY AND MARCH

"A Helping Hand" _Renouf_ 37

"The Strawberry Girl" _Reynolds_ 43

APRIL, MAY, AND JUNE

"The Return to the Farm" _Troyon_ 51

Review of Pictures and Artists Studied

_The Suggestions to Teachers_ 56

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 inf