Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · Boston : D. Lothrop & Co. · leaf 34
, from the severe labor and anxiety of fightingwith the fury of the gale into safety and calm. Thesupper the travellers enjoyed that night in the shel-tered nook amid the rocks of Lake Michigan, musthave been, indeed, one of unusual delight, and well-seasoned with Spartan sauce. As an artist, Mr.… … produced its most successful efforts in landscape andmarine. We have had several excellent portrait andfigure painters, and the number of such is increasing.But, up to within a few years, the distinctive featureof American art has been landscape painting. The grandeur and variety of our scenery,…
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