Tranquillity

Tuna boats in the background, larger than the sardine smacks, though not more effective for the purposes of the picture-maker. Their hoisted sails have been painted and tinted and bleached by their owners, as well as by the sun and the wind, and their hulls have been striped with bright greens, quite as if the eager artist from America had given his orders a year or two ahead of his coming. But things have a habit of working that way for artists. They arrange themselves to swt his needs—and when they don’t, he arranges them himself. We may be sure that Payne manipulated his ingredients very skillfully when he painted this fine picture.