. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . tons collection, a work which soon gave him reputation. One of his latest productions is the Cotton-Pickers, two stalwart negrowomen in a cotton-field, which now has a home in London. His A FairWind and Over the Hills are in New York, in Mr. Charles Smiths gal-lery. Mr. Homer is not wholly a master of technique, but he understandsthe nature and the aims of art; he can see and lay hold of the essentials ofcharacter, and he paints his own thoughts—not other persons. It is notstrange, therefore, that, almost from the
. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . tons collection, a work which soon gave him reputation. One of his latest productions is the Cotton-Pickers, two stalwart negrowomen in a cotton-field, which now has a home in London. His A FairWind and Over the Hills are in New York, in Mr. Charles Smiths gal-lery. Mr. Homer is not wholly a master of technique, but he understandsthe nature and the aims of art; he can see and lay hold of the essentials ofcharacter, and he paints his own thoughts—not other persons. It is notstrange, therefore, that, almost from the outset of his career as a painter, hisworks have compelled the attention of the public, and have invested them-selves with earnest admiration. The praise they have earned is honestpraise. They reveal on the part of the artist an ability to grasp dominantcharacteristics and to reproduce specific expressions of scenes and sitters;and for this reason it is that no two of Mr. Homers pictures look canvas with his name attached bears the reflex of a distinct artistic. IN THE a Painting by Winslow Homer. p. 28. GEORGE IN NESS. 29 impression. His style is large and free, realistic and straight for wan I, broadand bold; and many of bis finished works have somewhat of the charm ofopen-air sketches—were, indeed, painted out-doors in the sunlight, in theimmediate presence of Nature; while in the best of them may always berecognized a certain noble simplicity, quietude, and sobriety, that one feelsgrateful for in an age of gilded spread-eagleism, together with an abundanceof free touches made in inspired unconsciousness of rules, and sometimesfine enough almost to atone for insufficiency of textures and feebleness ofrelation of color to sentiment. His negro studies, recently brought fromVirginia, are in several respects—in their total freedom from conventional-ism and mannerism, in their strong look of life, and in their sensitive feelingfor character—the mo
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