Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[A. H.] Sellers
Transcription
[newspaper clipping] Keith's Latest Picture.
William Keith, the noted artist, has just completed for the Press Club a large and very handsome landscape picture of something like the former picture presented by him which was burned in the Pine street rooms, but much more comprehensive and finer in detail. It represents a tangled forest, in which are great live oaks like those seen about Menio. In the opening far away the sunlight bursts through, showing a herd of cattle under some of the great trees, while in another part are a number of women. The brown wild grass about the woods, the poppies and buttercups and the varied tints of the sky all go to make up a typical California scene. The picture is six and a half by three feet in size and is valued, even at the present low prices for art work, at $2000.
Martinez
Feb. 11,
1895.
Dear Sellers: Last Thursday I sent off Glaciers, & Friday went to the city & saw Keith. He is quite well again, & of course quite wild, painting charming pictures, & mumbling about money like a brook lost in weeds. In particular he has painted some lovely small pictures which you must see when you come back. They are perfect little poems. Wonder the growling sinner could do it.
What dreadful weather has been scourging the other side of the continent. Think how poor Chicago & Lake Michigan has been lashed & thrashed. while for weeks we have been bathed in sunshine & larksong, all the days. homogeneous masses of purple & gold. Surely your headaches must now be charmed away--& your health--be as bright as the weather. Hoping this is so I am every faithfully yours
John Muir
Location
Martinez, [Calif.]
Date Original
1895-02-11
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [A. H.] Sellers, 1895 Feb 11." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6993.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6993
Resource Identifier
muir08_0825-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0825
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library . Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
