. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . ms are not at all frivolous. The impressions whichhe strives to record, and which he succeeds in recording, are worthy of him-self and of the spectator. His penetration into the heart and the mystery ofNature gets deeper as he grows older; his insight and sympathy become moreprofound. We have not an American painter whose artistic purpose is lessalloyed with conventionalism, with vulgarity, with opinionativeness, or with Following the even tenor of his way, he interprets the beautyof the unseen and the
. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . ms are not at all frivolous. The impressions whichhe strives to record, and which he succeeds in recording, are worthy of him-self and of the spectator. His penetration into the heart and the mystery ofNature gets deeper as he grows older; his insight and sympathy become moreprofound. We have not an American painter whose artistic purpose is lessalloyed with conventionalism, with vulgarity, with opinionativeness, or with Following the even tenor of his way, he interprets the beautyof the unseen and the lasting; and, if he is sometimes less perspicacious thanhe might be, the failing is one that leans to virtues side. When Mr. Lowell, in behalf of himself and some brother poets, wrote of the coming race, who haply shall not count it to our crime that we, whofain would sing, are here before our time, his words, doubtless, awoke aresponse in the heart of his friend Mr. William Page ; but an artist who hasbeen as successful as Mr. Eastman Johnson is scarcely an object of poetic. ON THE AUSABLE a Painting by Alexander //. Wyant. p. 100. EASTMAN JOHNSON. \.and The Organ-Boy. His pictures are presentations of national types. The absence of historical art in America,
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