. American painters of yesterday and today . ei o S -^ H. Benjamin West: Presentation of the Queen of Sheba at the Court of King Solomon Museum of Art, Worcester, Mass. THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY LENOX AND TlLUiCN FOUNDATIONS B L they were intended is the conclusion that is forcedupon one. As a matter of fact, however, none ofthe great artists of his time were any more successfulin their efforts in this direction, and so far, at least,it is true that the preeminence of his position as apainter of such subjects was entirely justified by hisperformance which, though it is never entirely
. American painters of yesterday and today . ei o S -^ H. Benjamin West: Presentation of the Queen of Sheba at the Court of King Solomon Museum of Art, Worcester, Mass. THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY LENOX AND TlLUiCN FOUNDATIONS B L they were intended is the conclusion that is forcedupon one. As a matter of fact, however, none ofthe great artists of his time were any more successfulin their efforts in this direction, and so far, at least,it is true that the preeminence of his position as apainter of such subjects was entirely justified by hisperformance which, though it is never entirely con-vincing, is yet very often punctuated by passages ofreal and definite distinction. Too much of thepassion, the lust, the pathos of life, which neverentered into the artists experience, and which, neverunderstanding, he was unable to picture, is missing,for these canvases to sensibly stir us to any greatenthusiasm. Lacking sufficiently dominant and com-pelling facial expressiveness to emphasize or explaintheir actions, his figures fail to properly su
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