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Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nt the funda-mental part, theres no use in adding it as embroidery. Tinkering isnt painting ! During the last five or six years Mr. Hunt has painted many landscapes.His earlier works were portraits and figure-pieces. To the first exhibition ofthe Society of American Artists he contributed an unfinished portrait of alady, which was very delicate and harmonious in color and rich in suggestive-ness; but the most of his later pictures are never exhibited publicly except inhis own private gallery overlooking Boston Common. In the summer of 1878,in a shop in that city, there hung a picture of a sweet and serious girl of fif-teen years, which was as winning in sentiment and as full of tenderest poeticfeeling as any work of Millets that we have seen. The treatment was asbroad and cool as Millets, and the technique in every respect as good. Mr.Hunts landscapes are low-toned, simple in subject, masterly in the renderingof atmosphere and atmospheric effects, luminous, and the records of distinct
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ft 3 ROBERT SWAIN OIFFORD. 93 impressions from Nature. The quoted extracts from his conversations tellclearly what he tries to do. Though not a colorist in the supreme sense thatTroyon was, he is a true artist. When Mr. Robert Swain Gifford was elected an Academician in 1x7*,the National Academy of Design distinguished itself. Some years ajro the con-ferring of that honor would have given him distinction. The institution, how-ever, gained by procrastination ; in finally electing Mr. Gifford it added to itsown laurels. The new member was born on the island of Naushon, in Buz.zards Bay, near the coast of Massachusetts, on the 23d of December, 1840.He went to school in New Bedford, and opposite that place, in the village ofFairhaven, he met the Dutch marine painter, Albert Van Beest. It would beincorrect to say that his acquaintance with the Dutch painter made Mr.Gifford an artist, because Mr. Gifford was an artist potentially the day onwhich he first opened his eyes; but the influence o

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