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 256
d portraits, genre, and still-life—some ofthe last being fish. Here, in still-life, with hiscunning handling and with color and textureas the chief motive, he appeared to great ad-vantage. By many people his fish-painting isregarded as his highest achievement. In no lessthan half a dozen museums in… … w WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE 205 surfaces with their iridescent colorings. A fewyears before he died, in showing a new fish-picture in his studio he remarked to me withsome deprecation in his manner that he sup-posed after he was gone he would be known asa fish-painter! He had made the same protestto…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters · Painting, American
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