Munsey's Magazine, September 1894

About this issue

Munsey's Magazine for September 1894 features two main content sections. "Artists and Their Work" surveys contemporary European and American painters. It includes profiles of the German Secessionist movement's founders (Fritz von Uhde, Max Liebermann, Gotthardt Kuehl, Albert Keller), with particular attention to Von Uhde's transformation from amateur officer to successful Paris-trained painter specializing in Biblical narratives rendered in modern settings. Additional coverage treats American artist Miss Clara T. McChesney, whose oil painting "The Old Spinner" won Academy recognition; English painter Edwin Long, known for classical genre works commanding five-figure prices; Briton Rivière, animal painter and Royal Academician; American Frank Fowler, recognized for Waldorf Hotel mural decoration; and prominent French instructor Carolus-Duran, with remarks on rising generation members including Gustave Mosler and Aston Knight. A second substantial feature examines Thomas Loftin Johnson, Democratic Congressman from Cleveland, Ohio, detailing his rapid ascent from fifteen-year-old railway office clerk to millionaire street railway magnate and political figure at age forty.