Aims and ideals of representative American painters (1901)
Rummell, John, Berlin, Emma Medora · Buffalo, N. Y. : E. M. Berlin · leaf 71
which he wasat first assailed. The influence ofRuskin and others had led Englishartists into a pernicious habit of copy-ing Nature with a most inconsequentfidelity. Mr. Whistler has taught themthat it is not copying but judiciousselection that is needed in art. Hismethod is more learned than that… … MONG the younger genera-tion of American painterswho are living abroadnone is more famous thanJohn S. Sargent. Honors andfortune came to him earher in life thanto most artists. No doubt he was lessof an innovator than Mr. Whistler, and,therefore, more readily understood.He is, nevertheless, an…
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