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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 164

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182 ART IN AMERICA. behind wliieli tlie low red snii is setting; and A. F. Tait lias also devoted his life to rescuing from oblivion species which are rapidly becoming ex- tinct, unless our game-laws are better enforced than they have been hith- erto. There is often too finished a touch to the… … “lost in the snow.” — [a. f. TAIT.J ho brings to the subject an inventive fancy that greatly adds to the variety and interest of his works. We might add in this connection an allusion to the ingenious carvings of Alexander Fo[>e, a young artist who not only cuts out groups of game from a block (>f…

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