American etchers. Reprinted from the Century magazine for February 1883, with a brief additional chapter from the New York Star (1886)
Van Rensselaer, Schuyler, Mrs., 1851-1934 · New York, F. Keppel & co: · leaf 12
note that the greatest originaletchers are usually content to give tone and gradation in a partial, arbitrary,and strictly interpretative way, since by so doing they retain rapidity ofhandling and—the prime excellence of the art—strong linear expression. Ina word, they think more of form and color… … HAY-RICKS. (H. FARRER.) perfectly exhibited, its limitations most loyally respected—since, as Mr. Ham-erton well says, an art is at its best when most thoroughly itself. Those etchingswhich are the freest and most personal in handling and the richest in color, andin which the line is most strongly…
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