American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 204
ot greatlydifferent from our own. In the formal school of David and his followers, to which Vedder issomewhat affiliated, they are over-suggestive of the statuary of the museums. Vedders heavyand finely subdivided draperies are sometimes as if of marble or bronze; or, again, very light,like those… … E. VEDDER, PINX. C, KRUELL, SC. THE PHORCYDES. AMERICAN ART 167 consideration to others. He is not contented with simple rest; generally his characters mustmove, and that quite actively. A kind of movement to which he is peculiarly given is that offluttering drapery. This in the animated Roman…
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