. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . representation of adistinct impression from Nature. It seems to me that the bane of Americanart is that our artists paint for money, and repeat themselves, so that in manyinstances you can tell the parentage of a picture the moment you look at is not true that the public require such a repetition on the part of theartist. Men who are constantly rehashing themselves do so from sheer ina-bility to do otherwise. There is a lack of that genuine enthusiasm amongour artists without which no great work can be produ
. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . representation of adistinct impression from Nature. It seems to me that the bane of Americanart is that our artists paint for money, and repeat themselves, so that in manyinstances you can tell the parentage of a picture the moment you look at is not true that the public require such a repetition on the part of theartist. Men who are constantly rehashing themselves do so from sheer ina-bility to do otherwise. There is a lack of that genuine enthusiasm amongour artists without which no great work can be produced. I believe that anartists personal characteristics may be told from his pictures. Who wouldntknow, for example, that Frederick E. Church is a man of refinement? Hisworks are full of refinement—refinement in touch, delicacy of form, delicacyof color. If a mans studio is simply a manufactory of paintings, which shalltickle the ignorant in art; if he is continually repeating himself in order tosell his pictures more rapidly or easily, this fact will convey itself to every. if Mi
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