. American painters of yesterday and today . us o z « THE nEV/ tORKPUBLIC LIBRARY LENOX AND TILUKM FOUNDATIONS B L sensibly constitutes the persuasive charm of the latercanvas. It is also entirely as enjoyable in color, andfrom it one gets definitely the feeling of localitywhich is a quality that differentiates honest frominferior landscape painting. The Fronts Neck isa study so marked with the conscious realization ofactual appearances and an adequate rendering oftheir artistic interest as to persuade one that Homermight well have evolved from such an auspiciousexperiment a landscape
. American painters of yesterday and today . us o z « THE nEV/ tORKPUBLIC LIBRARY LENOX AND TILUKM FOUNDATIONS B L sensibly constitutes the persuasive charm of the latercanvas. It is also entirely as enjoyable in color, andfrom it one gets definitely the feeling of localitywhich is a quality that differentiates honest frominferior landscape painting. The Fronts Neck isa study so marked with the conscious realization ofactual appearances and an adequate rendering oftheir artistic interest as to persuade one that Homermight well have evolved from such an auspiciousexperiment a landscape as vital as the most im-pressive of his marines. It is instinct with the evi-dence of an intimate understanding of significantform, finished with a rare economy of efi^ort in thematter of mere painting, and not only satisfies themost exacting expectations of the realist, but meas-urably fulfils the higher aim of pictorial art in itssuggestive indication of abstract beauty. 35 FIGURE PICTURESBY WYATT EATON. FIGURE PICTURESBY WYATT EATON YATT EATON, whose parents wereof New England stock, was bornMay 6, 1849, at Philipsburg, onMissiquol Bay, a tributary of LakeChamplain. As early as his eight-eenth year he had determined uponhis career, and going to New York began the studyof art at the National Academy of Design underSamuel Colman, Daniel Huntington and others,working at the same time in the studio of JosephOrion Eaton, from whom he also received years later, in 1872, he went abroad and aftera short stay in London, where he met and receivedsome valuable suggestions from Whistler, he pro-ceeded to Paris and entered the atelier of Gerome atthe Beaux-Arts. The next four years he dividedbetween Paris and Barbizon, and during this intervalwas fortunate enough to become a sort of protege ofMillets, who both criticized his work and favoredhim with good advice. Millets influence, of course,is evident in much of Eatons painting of this period,but he was neither a copyis
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