Art in America; a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 77
on has our school of landscape art vindicated itsright to be, and established its claim on our respectful attention, but alsobecause it has owed little to foreign influences—springing rather fromenvironing circumstances, as naturally as the flowers of May follow thedeparture of winter. And thus, as… … THE TASTY DEEP. [WILLIAM T. RICHARDS.] one can hardly believe that where, but a few years before, the Indian andthe buffalo and the wolf had roamed at their own wild will, artists nowarose, armed with an ability to discern the beauties of their native land, todirect the prosaic thoughts of the…
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