Decatur High School - Decanois Yearbook (Decatur, IL)

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THE DECANOIS 1938 But his loveliest work is his fine decorative landscape, 'As the Sowing the Reaping, now buried away in Decatur, lllinois. We regard this as the noblest, most poetic, purely land- scape mural decoration ever produced in America, or, tor that matter, in the world- during the present centuryl Bold, but true, praise. The work, about twenty feet long, represents a View across the Mississippi from Sylvesters doorstep over into the lllinois plain, . . This passage is taken from F. W. Ruckstull's Great Works of Art and What Makes Them Great and was published in the Decatur Review last summer. Even if great artists of authority do con- sider Frederick Oakes Sy1vester's beautiful painting wasted upon Decatur High School, they are mistaken. The painting is a part of the school library and no high school student would want to have it removed. lt has been a possession of the schoo1's since the winter of 1911-12. The smaller photograph was made ot the print of William Blake's painting which hangs near the auditorium in the main corridor. A pilgrimage to Canterbury as described by Chaucer is depicted. Agora, the girls' literary society, presented the picture to Decatur High School as a memorial to Mrs. Lucy H. Nelson. Mrs. Nelson was long a teacher in the Decatur schools, latterly a teacher of English in the high school.

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