Art in America; a critical and historical sketch . s in this sense that we allude to our school oflandscape. With certain important exceptions, to be noted in another chapter, theAmerican art of this period has, on the whole, been concerned chiefly withthe objective; and it could not have well been otherwise, for any otherform of art at such a time would have utterly failed to cany the people 72 ART IN AMERICA. with it, and thus missed of producing that gradual aesthetic educationwhich is the province of a national art. Not only for this reason has our school of landscape art vindicated itsrig
Art in America; a critical and historical sketch . s in this sense that we allude to our school oflandscape. With certain important exceptions, to be noted in another chapter, theAmerican art of this period has, on the whole, been concerned chiefly withthe objective; and it could not have well been otherwise, for any otherform of art at such a time would have utterly failed to cany the people 72 ART IN AMERICA. with it, and thus missed of producing that gradual aesthetic educationwhich is the province of a national art. Not only for this reason has our school of landscape art vindicated itsright to be, and established its claim on our respectful attention, but alsobecause it has owed little to foreign influences—springing rather fromenvironing circumstances, as naturally as the flowers of May follow thedeparture of winter. And thus, as after a long winter a few warm spring days cover theorchard with an affluence of blossoms, so at this time from many quartersof the land artists appeared, especially in the field of landscape art; and. THE TASTY DEEP. [WILLIAM T. RICHARDS.] one can hardly believe that where, but a few years before, the Indian andthe buffalo and the wolf had roamed at their own wild will, artists nowarose, armed with an ability to discern the beauties of their native land, todirect the prosaic thoughts of the pioneer to the loveliness of the naturewhich surrounded him, and to make for themselves an enduring , the Massachusetts of the West, for example, which became a Stateas late as 1S00, was in the early part of this period especially prolific inartists, who, if the} did not find instruction or a public on the spot, wereat least enabled, with the increasing means of communication, to go toNew York and Boston, or to wander over to the studios and art wealth of AMERICAN PAINTERS. (6 Europe. In other lands and ages the poetic sentiment lias first found avent in lyrics and idyls; but with us the best poetry has been in the land-scape-painting w
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