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 316
look, the portrait-painter doesnot usually know or care. It is not his business toknow. He paints what he sees and has as littlediscernment of a character as of a mind. Hegives, perhaps without knowing their meaning,certain protrusions and recessions of the sur-face before him and lets the result… … Mrs. Pulitzer, by John S. Sargent. JOHN S. SARGENT 257 sees and knows; and to say of Sargent that heobserves rightly and records truly is to statethe case in a sentence. Nothing in the physicalpresence escapes him. The slight inclination of ahead, the shyness of a glance, the mobility of amouth,…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters · Painting, American
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