Art in America : a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 64
and, in his thirty-eighth year, directed his efforts to landscape-painting,and at once became not only a pioneer but a master in this department.The care he had been obliged to give to engraving was undoubtedly ofgreat assistance to him in enabling him to render the lines of a composi-tion with… … A STUDY FROM NATURE.—[a. B. DURAND.] AMERICAN PAINTERS. 63 they made them the haunt of the dryads. It is to this that we doubtlessowe the massive handling, the fresh and vigorous treatment of trees insuch solemn and majestic landscapes as The Edge of the Forest, in theCorcoran Gallery at…
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