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.
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-studywork in each grade, recommending the study of certain picturesby well-known masters. As Supervisor of Drawing I foundthat the children enjoyed this work but that the teachers feltincompetent to conduct the lessons as they lacked time tolook up the subject and to gather adequate material. Recourseto a great many books was necessary and often whilemuch information could usually be found about the artist,very little was available about his pictures.
Hence I began collecting information about the picturesand preparing the lessons for the teachers just as I wouldgive them myself to pupils of their grade.
My plan does not include many pictures during the year,as this is to be only a part of the art work and is not intendedto take the place of drawing.
The lessons in this grade are planned for the usual drawingperiod of from twenty to thirty minutes, and have been givenin that tim