Art in America : a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 85
ith someof her little known and more remarkable and startling effects, there is avery noteworthy absence of sensationalism or staginess in the paintings ofChurch ; while, on the other hand, the somewhat too careful reproductionof details has not prevented them from possessing a grand massing… … A COMPOSITION. [FREDERICK E. CHURCH.] arms criticism. Churchs first painting of Niagara occupies the culminat-ing point in the objective art of this period of our history, executed by anartist who up to that time had never crossed the Atlantic, and whose mer-its and defects were entirely his own.…
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