American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 566
doubt that we need the word most in itsprimitive and truest signification, where it stands for one who has a special knowledge ofand love for art, in contradistinction to the practical worker in art. There is no doubt, also,that we use it less in this sense than in any other. Much oftener it serves… … ON THE AUSABLE RIVER. FROM A PAINTING BY ALEXANDER H. WYANT. AMERICAN ART 975 a half-taught enthusiast or idle trifler, whom hard work and devotion might or might not turninto an artist properly so called, but who meanwhile shelters his inefficiency under the halfhumility of amateur, nay, bestows…
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