Art in America : a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 119
ed some thoughtful and refined in-door scenes,taken from domestic life, which show a thorough appreciation of the factthat art, for itself alone, is the only aim the true artist should pursue.E. L. Henry surprises one by the elaboration of his work, and is open tothe charge of crudeness in color… … ARGUING THE QUESTION. [t. W. WOOD.] But it is in the works of Messrs. Eastman Johnson and Winslow Ho-mer that we find the most successful rendering of American genre of thepresent day as distinguished from that which bears unmistakable evi-dence of foreign inspiration. Mr. Johnson, as a student at…
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