Aims and ideals of representative American painters (1901)
Rummell, John, Berlin, Emma Medora · Buffalo, N. Y. : E. M. Berlin · leaf 117
He has depicted the peacefulscenes of American village life and ofthe country school. In short, whateveris idyllic or heroic in the lives of thecommon people of this great democ-racy. Homer has closely observed andpainted as he has seen it, never soften-ing a line or modifying a feature for thesake… … XIX. N this essay we can speak ofonly a very few of the note-worthy American artists;We must not fail to observe,however, that we have also many excel-lent marine painters, chief of whom isAlexander Harrison, famous for thesplendor and mystery of his pictures ofsurf and sea by moonlight. The…
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