American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 538
usicians with harp and violin in the snowystreet. All Mr. Browns pictures are stories. Concerning The Passing Show, which was inthe Paris Exhibition of 1878, the London Athenaeum said, The painter has set himself toportray a bit of genuine Nature in a careful, natural manner, and he has succeeded… … HE stronger part of art is not its language, but the idea which that languageexpresses. I know of no words more fitting than these to place at thehead of this sketch of the life and work of George Fuller. With him theidea of a picture was always, and rightly, the most important thing, andeverything…
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