Art in America; a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 193
bany, who has won transatlantic fame by the purity and originality of his art. The son of a farmer, and exercising the calling of a 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 took np the pursuit of… … ABRAHAM PIERSON. — [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 beauty rather than power tliat we see expressed…
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