William TRichards; a brief outline of his life and art . CHARDS one sky, so different from the water on another shoreor under another sky. This study was an arduous facts must all be stored in the memory and the ef-fect worked out by a mental process. To do this andat the same time add to the result of an intellectualprocess the vigor and robustness which comes from workdone directly in the presence of the thing depicted wasan impossibility all at once, and the earlier attemptswere marked by a thinness and smallness of style, whichgave great offense to the learned art critics. But noon
William TRichards; a brief outline of his life and art . CHARDS one sky, so different from the water on another shoreor under another sky. This study was an arduous facts must all be stored in the memory and the ef-fect worked out by a mental process. To do this andat the same time add to the result of an intellectualprocess the vigor and robustness which comes from workdone directly in the presence of the thing depicted wasan impossibility all at once, and the earlier attemptswere marked by a thinness and smallness of style, whichgave great offense to the learned art critics. But noone could deny that the facts were for the first time ac-curately stated, and the effect upon the other paintersof the sea was immense. It worked a revelation in theminds of the younger men; and it will never again bepossible to make the world accept the old-fashioned wavedrawing for accurate representation. It would hardly be possible to estimate the number of pictures produced by Mr. Richards in his long and 58 oowo § Q> » Hj o M 2OHO e o Xo HO IS. MASTERPIECES OF THE SEA busy career. From the eighteen-fifties to nineteen hun-dred and five is a wide stretch—fifty-five years of cease-less sowing makes a great harvest. But nobody couldnow trace all the work he did. We realize its extentby the examples known to each of us, prized dearly bytheir owners and held in many American cities publiclyand privately. If the many who own A Richards could be ledto tell us of it, the record would roll up a great tributeto the genius and industry of one independent Ameri-can man of thought and action in a day of apathy; andit would prove, some time, of value for the annalsof a period in American art, rich in its formative influ-ences toward a distinctive national school. Of this movement, William T. Richards was a be-ginner and a leader. If we stand now for anythingin art it is for the straightforward conveyance of is not the utmost limit of any art. There are ideals beyond fac
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