Art in America : a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 160
T, who has won transatlantic fame by the purity andoriginality of his art The son of a farmer, and exercising the calling ofa carpenter until nearly thirty, Palmer did not yield to the artistic yearn-ings of his nature until comparatively late in life. When he at last tookup the pursuit of art, it… … ABRAHAM PIEESON. [LAUNT THOMPSON.] to give it expression, and none have shown a type of beauty so national,or have more truly interpreted with an exquisite poetic sense the distinc-tive domestic refinement or religious thought of our people. It is beautyrather than power that we see expressed in…
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