. Our Philadelphia. conditionshad not been more stimulating anywhere in Hudson River School is about all that came of aperiod which, for that matter, owed its chief good torevolt in countries where more was to be expected ofit: in France, to first the Romanticists and then theImpressionists who had revolted against the Academic;in England to the Pre-Raphaelites who, with noisy adver-tisement, broke away from Victorian convention. Art inAmerica had not got to the point of development whenthere was anything to revolt against or to break awayfrom. What it needed was a revival of the o
. Our Philadelphia. conditionshad not been more stimulating anywhere in Hudson River School is about all that came of aperiod which, for that matter, owed its chief good torevolt in countries where more was to be expected ofit: in France, to first the Romanticists and then theImpressionists who had revolted against the Academic;in England to the Pre-Raphaelites who, with noisy adver-tisement, broke away from Victorian convention. Art inAmerica had not got to the point of development whenthere was anything to revolt against or to break awayfrom. What it needed was a revival of the old interest,a reaction from the prevailing indifference to all therewas of art in the country. Some say this came in Philadelphia with the Cen-tennial. The Centennials stirring up, however, would nothave done much good had not artists already begim to stirthemselves up. How a number of Americans who hadbeen studying in Paris and Munich returned to Americafull of youth and enthusiasm in the early Eighteen-Seven- 390. THE OLD WATER-WORKS, FAIRMOUNT PARK PHILADELPHIA AND ART 393 ties, there to lead a new movement in American art, haslong since passed into history—also the fact that one ofthe most remarkable outcomes of this new movement wasthe new school of illustration that quickly made Americanillustrated books and magazines famous throughout theworld. But what concerns me as a Philadelphian is that,once more at this critical moment, Philadelphia took thelead. The pubhshers of the illustrated books and maga-zines may have been chiefly in New York, the illustrationswere chiefly from Philadelphia, and there is no reasonwhy Philadelphia should not admit it with decent and Frost were actually, Howard Pyle and Smed-ley virtually, Philadelphians. Blum and Brennan passedthrough the Academy Schools. J., when I met him, wasat the thieshold of his career. And the illustrators werebut a younger ofFsfhoot of the new Philadelphia Mary Cassatt had already started to w
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