American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . e works that Shirlaw has executed do not indicate any especial scheme oridea of subject. He likes all subjects. He is rather preparatory than defined. He is led bysympathy rather than idea. He enjoys himself simply and modestly in his work. He under-stands the certain rules of art, and is firm, exacting, and free in their use. The whirl ofenthusiasm never takes him off his feet, neither does the desire for popularity allure him into aforgetfulness of the worth of his profession. A broad and versatile art feeling is a fair
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . e works that Shirlaw has executed do not indicate any especial scheme oridea of subject. He likes all subjects. He is rather preparatory than defined. He is led bysympathy rather than idea. He enjoys himself simply and modestly in his work. He under-stands the certain rules of art, and is firm, exacting, and free in their use. The whirl ofenthusiasm never takes him off his feet, neither does the desire for popularity allure him into aforgetfulness of the worth of his profession. A broad and versatile art feeling is a fair gaugeof his motive, while a free and healthy brush characterizes his work. In the midst of theuncertain standards of art judgment, of the craze for notoriety at any cost, and the accumulatedplatitudes of a past generation still in existence, Shirlaw is numbered among the few artistswho, without presuming to lead the public by any claimed superiority, are, by the tendenciesof their natures, escaping the influence that descends to it. They are the artists, more or less. LV>Y-*^~Sai>r«-;-7r>fr7^«*:^ -1* MUSING. PHOTOTVPIC REPRODUCTION OF A PENCIL DRAWING BY WALTER SHIRLAW. AMERICAN ART H American, who have been obliged to work themselves into private and public recognitionwithout either the sympathy or care of the public. It seems to be at this moment the onlyindependent and practical plan for an American who has a talent for art to spend the best partof his life in procuring means to enable him to study during the last part. At forty he isdoing what he ought to have had a chance to do at sixteen. T. H. Bartlett-
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