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Our American artists (1879)

Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · Boston : D. Lothrop & Co. · leaf 59

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e best works of thesort produced on this side of the Atlantic. Thepainting is not a large one, the figures being what iscalled cabinet size ; but observe how carefully andcorrectly the group of horses in the foreground isdrawn. Few of our painters have equalled this artistin the drawing of the… … GEORGE LORING BRO^VN. WHEN we consider the career of this artist, weare carried back to the early days of Ameri-can landscape painting, when Thomas Cole, A. B.Durand and Thomas Dougherty were introducing ourpeople to the study of nature. Cole was one of thegreatest artists we have had in this…

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