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Art in America : a critical and historical sketch (1880)

Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 130

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Elec-toral Commission, of whose merits the writer can only speak by report. In Wordsworth Thompson we find an artist who seems to realize thepossibilities of American historical art. Although a pupil of Gleyre, andfor a number of years a resident abroad, there is no evidence of servilesubserviency… … ON THE OLD SOD. [WILLIAM MAGRATH.J AMERICAN PAINTERS. 129 and his work is thoroughly finished, and yet broad in effect. lie evidentlylias no hobbies to ride. As a designer of horses he has few equals in thiscountry. If we have a fault to find with him, it is in a certain lack ofsnap, of warmth, of…

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