Art in America; a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 72
cellence,for the environing conditions have apparently not been favorable. Theinfluences among which it sprung have been so often prosaic or unin-spiring, that, notwithstanding its fertility, we find the result to lean toquantity rather than quality. The ideal and emotional elements in arthave not… … BROOK IN THE WOODS.—[WORTHINGTON WHITTREDGE.] AMERICAN PAINTERS. 69 peet of nature rather than with the subtle suggestions by which it appealsto the soul. An absence of imaginative power has been too apparent, anda lack of the energy and earnestness born of large natures and absorbingenthusiasm;…
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