Art in America; a critical and historical sketch . t the mystery in analyzes its human aspects. It is the vague suggestions seen in hillsand skies, in sere woods and lonely waters, and moorlands fading away intoeternity—it is their symbolism and sympathy with the soul that an artistlike Mr. Jervis MEntee seeks to represent on canvas. This is. in a subjective art to which we have already alluded. To him the voice ofnature is an elegy ; the fall of the leaves in October suggests the passingaway of men to the grave in a countless and endless procession : andwhenever he introdu
Art in America; a critical and historical sketch . t the mystery in analyzes its human aspects. It is the vague suggestions seen in hillsand skies, in sere woods and lonely waters, and moorlands fading away intoeternity—it is their symbolism and sympathy with the soul that an artistlike Mr. Jervis MEntee seeks to represent on canvas. This is. in a subjective art to which we have already alluded. To him the voice ofnature is an elegy ; the fall of the leaves in October suggests the passingaway of men to the grave in a countless and endless procession : andwhenever he introduces the agency of man into his pictures, it is as if he 104 ART IN AMERICA. ?were fighting with an unseen and remorseless destiny. Exquisitely poeticand beautiful are the autumnal scenes of this artist, the reaches of russetwoodlands, the expanses of skurrying clouds, gray, melancholy, wild. Hisart sings in a low minor key that finds response in the heart of multitudeswho have suffered, to whom the world has been a battle-field, where the i J. LANDSCAPE. [jERVIS IIENTEE.] losses have outweighed the gains, and have left them gazing into the mys-terious future like one who at midnight stands on the brink of a tremen-dous abyss into which he must be hurled, but knows not what are theshuddering possibilities that await the inevitable plunge. A young artist of Boston died in Syria, four years ago, at the early ageof twenty-five, before he had acquired more than local repute, who gavepromise of standing among the foremost of American refer to A. P. Close. Certainly no artist we have produced has evincedmore abundant signs of genius at so early an age. Nor was he wholly alandscape-painter; the figure was also one aim of his art, and it was inthe combination of the two that he excelled. lie also had an eye forcolor that has not been too common in our art; and, wholly untaught,expressed his moods and fancies with a force that, even in its immaturity,suggested the
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