Art in America : a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 142
isadvantagesunder which they labored, and that, so far as can be known, they were noteven aided by any heredity of genius in this direction, criticism is tern- SCULPTUEE IN AMEEICA. 139 pered by surprise that they achieved the results they did, and that two ofthem at least—Powers and Crawford —… … Hiram Powers must always be assigned a commanding position inour Western art, even by those who are not enthusiastic admirers of hisworks. A farmers boy of the Green Mountains, he early exchanged Ver-mont for the bustling streets of Cincinnati, where an ampler scope wasoffered to the aspiring…
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