Munsey's Magazine, October 1894

# Munsey's Magazine, October 1894

This issue's primary content comprises an extended article on contemporary artists and art world figures. The feature covers recent deaths of prominent American painters including George Inness (landscape master), William Hart, and G. P. A. Healy (portraitist of U.S. presidents). It profiles Boston painter Edmund C. Tarbell, a promising younger artist and prizewinner; discusses Hungarian master Mihaly Munkacsy, an early career client of American patronage; and covers the celebrated literary feud between illustrator George du Maurier and painter James McNeill Whistler, sparked by Whistler's caricatured portrayal in du Maurier's novel Trilby. The section includes news of Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait sales and architect Stanford White's studio tower. A brief lyric poem titled "He" by May Hayden Taylor appears. The issue also begins a biographical article on David Bennett Hill, U.S. Senator from New York, tracing his rise from carpenter's son to political prominence, including anecdotes of his youth as an entrepreneurial train-boy.