. American painters of yesterday and today . boys playing Beetleand Wedge should not achieve something of dis-tinction in his early oil paintings of ten or fifteenyears later. That none of Homers canvases of thisperiod are numbered among those which justify thepreeminence of his position as an American painteris due more, perhaps, to the insistent dramaticquality of his later product than to any degree ofartistic superiority in it sufficient to account for theprevailing neglect of the very notable compositionsof his youth. If he eventually concluded that the native farm-hand was an inartistic
. American painters of yesterday and today . boys playing Beetleand Wedge should not achieve something of dis-tinction in his early oil paintings of ten or fifteenyears later. That none of Homers canvases of thisperiod are numbered among those which justify thepreeminence of his position as an American painteris due more, perhaps, to the insistent dramaticquality of his later product than to any degree ofartistic superiority in it sufficient to account for theprevailing neglect of the very notable compositionsof his youth. If he eventually concluded that the native farm-hand was an inartistic subject, it was not before hehad painted one or two pictures of him that are fineenough in themselves to hold their own, in every sensesave that of mere size, with some of the more pre-tentious of his later works. I myself find the figuresin his early paintings not merely more convincing inconstruction but more satisfying in their individ-uality. They may not be so heroic in form, butneither are they so wooden in structure as those that 30. WiNSLOw Homer: The Song ok the LarkThe Ilillyer Art Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, Mass. THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LEN1?X AND TILDBN FOUNDATIONS B L
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