. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . n of scenes atand near that beautiful place ; and his Mid-Ocean, now owned by Mi. Wil-liam Sellers, of Philadelphia, and his New England Coast, in the gallery ofMr. G. P. Wetmore, of New York, would be creditable accessions to any col-lection of American marines. Mr. Richards has been for many years a regu-lar contributor to the National Academy Exhibition in New York, and also tothe American Water-Color Society. His love of finish is so strong that eventhe water-colors he exhibits are not sketches, but whole pict
. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . n of scenes atand near that beautiful place ; and his Mid-Ocean, now owned by Mi. Wil-liam Sellers, of Philadelphia, and his New England Coast, in the gallery ofMr. G. P. Wetmore, of New York, would be creditable accessions to any col-lection of American marines. Mr. Richards has been for many years a regu-lar contributor to the National Academy Exhibition in New York, and also tothe American Water-Color Society. His love of finish is so strong that eventhe water-colors he exhibits are not sketches, but whole pictures. If Ameri-can art in water-colors has been charged with resembling English art in water-colors, of which some writer has said: It is an art which proposes the mak-ing of pictures as its raison detre, and looks upon Nature with eyes trainedonly to see in her a certain number of pictorial effects, and in man only pleas-ant arrangements of color and form. Here every artist seems to cater for thepublic as a dramatic agent caters for the theatre—to say in his heart: Here is. I X!>< . • 5 g h £ Z ~ < 5 I- I < «5 WILLIAM T. RICHARDS. g3 a nice, pretty thing Ive made for you. Dont you like it ? Then Ill makesomething else. Beautiful in many respects, the English art is practicallyan art without any coherent faith and life — if, we say, our native arthas with more or less justness been likened to its English sister, how unjustwould he the application of such words as those to the honest, thorough, andmasterly performances of Mr. William T. Richards! We have seen in ailexhibition a whole room full of weak prettinesses supported by one strong,virile work of his—a work almost strong enough to capture the enthusiasm ofgrave and titled Academicians, in whose eyes art in water-colors is usually awomans plaything, half patronized, half despised, who insist that oils are thetrue channels of vigorous and respectable effort, and that considerable non-sense is promulgate
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