American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . alitieswhich allied it with bothof these, — qualities whichbore evidence to thor-ough training in the painters craft, thorough command over the painters tool, and thoroughartistic instinct applied to conception and to treatment. Within the past few years, however,Mr. Shirlaw has not exhibited very much in New York, and it is but natural, therefore, chatour public should still look upon the Sheep-Shearing as his most important production. , who still lives abroad, has shown us just enough to pique our interest i
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . alitieswhich allied it with bothof these, — qualities whichbore evidence to thor-ough training in the painters craft, thorough command over the painters tool, and thoroughartistic instinct applied to conception and to treatment. Within the past few years, however,Mr. Shirlaw has not exhibited very much in New York, and it is but natural, therefore, chatour public should still look upon the Sheep-Shearing as his most important production. , who still lives abroad, has shown us just enough to pique our interest in his strongand peculiar individuality. We wait for his coming home, or for the receipt of more work offirst importance, to rank him, it may be, at the head of the younger generation. MeanwhileMr. Chase has been diligently and progressively at work, has gone beyond the level of thepicture which first proved to us his power, and has won for himself a place in the very firstrank of his contemporaries, — a reputation of ever-growing breadth as among the strongest and. William M. by G. Kruell. — From a Photograph by Kurtz. 2i2 AMERICAN ART most satisfactorily productive of American artists, past or present. It is this which makes thetask of entering upon the study of his work so pleasant. We have not to content ourselves withone or two completed pictures and a collection of fragments or mere essays, as is so often thecase when we have to deal with an artist who is young. We have not to decipher studies care-lessly undertaken and abandoned with hasty dissatisfaction. We have not to seek promise forthe future in present failure, or to prophesy achievements from intentions. From Mr. Chasesstudio has been turned out a large amount of well-planned, solid work, — work that stands onits own feet, and appeals not at all to indulgence for incomplete design, or immature accom-plishment, or fragmentary merit of any kind. Mr. Chases first lessons in his art were taken in
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