. American painters of yesterday and today . 47 Early Genre Pictures by Harry W. Watrous . , 55 Benjamin West 63 vu ILLUSTRATIONS J. FRANCIS MURPHY The River Farm Frontispiece PAGE Twilight 6 Late September 6 Golden Autumn 8 DWIGHT W. TRYON Glastonbury Meadows 14 Cernay La Ville 14 Early Morning, September 16 Twilight, November / * ^^ GEORGE FULLER The Romany Girl 22 Winifred Dysart 22 The Quadroon 22 Psyche 22 WINSLOW HOMER Haymaking 29 The Song of the Lark 3° A French Farm 3° Prouts Neck 34 ix WYATT EATON Portrait of William Cullen Bryant 40 Ariadne 42 Lassitude 42 Reverie 42 ARTHUR B. DAVIE
. American painters of yesterday and today . 47 Early Genre Pictures by Harry W. Watrous . , 55 Benjamin West 63 vu ILLUSTRATIONS J. FRANCIS MURPHY The River Farm Frontispiece PAGE Twilight 6 Late September 6 Golden Autumn 8 DWIGHT W. TRYON Glastonbury Meadows 14 Cernay La Ville 14 Early Morning, September 16 Twilight, November / * ^^ GEORGE FULLER The Romany Girl 22 Winifred Dysart 22 The Quadroon 22 Psyche 22 WINSLOW HOMER Haymaking 29 The Song of the Lark 3° A French Farm 3° Prouts Neck 34 ix WYATT EATON Portrait of William Cullen Bryant 40 Ariadne 42 Lassitude 42 Reverie 42 ARTHUR B. DAVIES Girl at the Fountain 50 The Violin Girl 50 Clothed in Dominion 50 HARRY W. WATROUS LAddition 56 The Guitar Player 56 Records 58 Lost 58 BENJAMIN WEST Portrait of John Sedley 64 Portrait of a Gentleman 66 The Envoys Returning from the Promised Land 68 Presentation of the Queen of Sheba at the Court of King Solomon 68 MINIATURE LANDSCAPESBY J. FRANCIS MURPHY AMERICAN PAINTERS OFYESTERDAY AND TODAY MINIATURE LANDSCAPESBY J. FRANCIS MURPHY. ERE size of itself has little or nothingto do with the greatness of any workof art, and yet many amateurs oftoday, especially in this country,persist in thinking and speaking onlyof large paintings as important pic-tures. Small as well as large paintings are some-times important, and whoever habitually overlooksthem necessarily misses a considerable measure ofwhat is best in pictorial art. Among our native landscape painters J. FrancisMurphy has to his credit a sufficient number of land-scapes in miniature of various periods to constitutea little gallery as representative as any that could beformed by gathering together a similar number ofhis large canvases. Quality, which is a very attrac-tive element in his big pictures, his smaller workspossess in a superlative degree. The natural inti-macy of their appeal, however, is in no sense encom- 3 passed at the expense of any sacrifice of spatial designor atmospheric envelopment which have so muc
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