Storm shows the haymakers hastening to load the wagon under a cloudy sky. Adan’s End of Day shows a solitary haymaker tramping across the field, and in L’Hermitte’s La Famille the entire family group sits in the hayfield in which the father is at work. With this class of pictures belongs Ridgway Knight's Calling the Ferry, a representation of French country life which shows the splendid physical development of the women who live and work out of doors.
Horatio Walker is an American painter whose works are naturally compared with those of Millct as interpretations of farm labors. Such subjects as ploughing, wood-cutling, ice-cutting, feeding sheep, pigs, and turkeys have been treated very vigorously. These pictures are mostly in private collections, but a few are available as reproductions. For the most part we must go to the art of distant lands to show our children the primitive tasks of life. In our own country the use of modern machinery and the life of the factories have for the time being removed the subjects of labor from the field of art. It is for the artists of the future to interpret American industrial Life in its modern form.
The story of the whaling industry, now rapidly becoming a thing of the past, was the special subject of the American painter, William Bradford, some of whose works have been reproduced in prints for schoolroom decoration. The Arctic Whaler and Homeward Bound are of this class. In more recent times Winslow Homer has done more than any other artist, perhaps, to show us the lives of the toilers of
