American painting and its tradition : as represented by Inness, Wyant, Martin, Homer, La Farge, Whistler, Chase, Alexander, Sargent (1919)
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 180
des a charming book, An Artists Letters fromJapan. To some the book is of more interestthan the drawings. The temple-doors and in-teriors and Buddhas of his sketches are, nodoubt, truthfully illustrative, and that is perhapstheir failing as pictures. The model was tooapparent and the artist not so… … Hi —0 •-5 * J JOHN LA FARGE 139 and his garden bits recall the early La Fargeof the pond-lilies and the Paradise Valley. His second long trip was again with HenryAdams and this time to the South Seas. He wasgone for a year or more, from 1890 and on,and out of this trip came another engagingbook,…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters · Painting, American
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