Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . vebeen so concerned to express what they saw in the simplest manner, thatthey have carefully avoided seeing or thinking about anything but the sim-plest things to be expressed. While some powerful work has resulted, it hasoften been labor worthy of a better cause, for the pictures produced have h
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . vebeen so concerned to express what they saw in the simplest manner, thatthey have carefully avoided seeing or thinking about anything but the sim-plest things to be expressed. While some powerful work has resulted, it hasoften been labor worthy of a better cause, for the pictures produced have had. ART PROGRESS OF THE CENTURY 601 little to tell beyond the skill of the painter. A nobly painted cabbage held,or a superbly handled stone wall with the tail of a womans skirt disappear-ing around a corner, may be masterly painting, but it is not great art; andit is to be hoped that the day of meaningless canvases will soon pass, andthe coming painters will not be content to discourse grandly about nothing. Among the leaders of current art in America, the place of honor in por-traiture belongs to John S. Sargent, who easily ranks with Boldini andBenjamin Constant in Paris. He is closely followed by Edmund C. Tarbell,John H. Alexander, with his love for long flowing graceful lines of drapery,. AT THE SHRINE OP VENUS. (ALMA TADEMA.) Robert Vonnoh, and William M. Chase. John McClure Hamilton has madesome striking studies of some of the most prominent people of our time,among them Gladstone and Pope Leo XIII. Elihu Vedder, John LaEarge,Will H. Low, Carroll Beck with, Abbott Thayer, and E. H. Blashfield arefigure painters whose subjects are frequently of a decorative or semi-reli-gious character. The latter is noted for his literary as well as artistic H. Boughton, though called an American, really belongs to England,where he paints interior genre subjects usually of olden times. John Swan,the animal painter, is also English. The names of Moran and Sartain aredistin
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