Art in America; a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 48
o acknowledge the great truth that art is aninstinctive yearning of the race to place itself in accord with the har-mony which rules the universe. The result has been that a very large proportion of the artists of thisperiod of our history have been compelled to endure far more than thetraditionary… … PORTRAIT OF PARKE GODWIN. [THOMAS LE CLEAR.] being mercenary — a charge made quite too often—is really somethingakin to irony, so much more successful pecuniarily would the majority ofthem have been in mercantile pursuits. The heroism of our early paint-ers, struggling, in obscure corners of the…
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