. Samuel Morse: his letters and journals. Edited and supplemented by his son Edward Lind Morse; illustrated with reporductions of his paintings and with notes and diagrams bearing on the invention of the telegraph. ined in the account of his life in Dunlaps Arts ofDesign. He proved its truth by boxes and balls of va-rious colors. He had an honest, solid, vigorous impasto,which he strongly insisted on in his instructions — amethod which was like the great masters of the Venetianschool. This method was modified in his practice by hisstudies under West in England, and by his intimacy withAll
. Samuel Morse: his letters and journals. Edited and supplemented by his son Edward Lind Morse; illustrated with reporductions of his paintings and with notes and diagrams bearing on the invention of the telegraph. ined in the account of his life in Dunlaps Arts ofDesign. He proved its truth by boxes and balls of va-rious colors. He had an honest, solid, vigorous impasto,which he strongly insisted on in his instructions — amethod which was like the great masters of the Venetianschool. This method was modified in his practice by hisstudies under West in England, and by his intimacy withAllston, for whose genius he had a great reverence, andby whose way of painting he wasstrongly influenced. He was a lover of simple, unaffected truth, and thistrait is shown in his works as an artist. He had a passionfor color, and rich, harmonious tints run through hispictures, which are glowing and mellow, and yet pearlyand delicate. He had a true painters eye, but he was hinderedfrom reaching the fame his genius promised as a painterby various distractions, such as the early battles of theAcademy of Design in its struggles for life, domesticafflictions, and, more than all, the engrossing cares of SUSAN W. MORSEEldest Jaiighter of the artist SAMUEL ISHAMS ESTIMATE 437 *The * Hercules, with its colossal proportions anddaring attitude, is evidence of the zeal and courage ofhis early studies. ... It is worthy of being carefullypreserved in a public gallery, not only as an instance ofsuccessful study in a young artist (Morse was in histwenty-first year), but as possessing high artistic merit,and a force and richness which plainly show that, if hisenergies had not been diverted, he might have achieveda name in art equal to the greatest of his contempora-ries. . Professor Morses world-wide fame rests, of course,on his invention of the electric telegraph; but it shouldbe remembered that the qualities of mind which led toit were developed in the progress of his art stud
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