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Title: Landscape and figure painters of America
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild
Subjects: Landscape painting Figure painting
Publisher: New York, Priv. Print.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hyme, oftime or of place. It is indeed the vital thing in hisart. It informs the most imaginative of his workswith meaning so evident as to be almost unmistak-able. In the Forest of Arden one senses it in thebroken limb of the blasted tree repeating the ges-ture of the cavalier who woos his lady in the fore-ground, he dwelling upon the beauty of Loves de-mesne and that dumb finger of earths dead point-ing upward as if to recall the lasting loveliness ofHeaven. I do not wish to be misunderstood asimplying that Ryder ever consciously attempts topoint a moral in a picture or to tell a story, but sim-ply to indicate how truly his work is informed withmeaning and pregnant with suggestion—so muchso, indeed, that from the best of it one gets an in-tellectual as well as an emotional pleasure of thehighest sort. In the picture of Pegasus the figurerides the white winged horse out of the radiantheavens right over the edge of the world, bringingback to us today the message of the gods. What 38
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Albert P. Ryder: Pegasus matters it if the winged steed is badly drawn in sucha picture? Perhaps the spindly legs that wouldscarcely carry its weight subconsciously emphasizethe power of those mighty wings outspread! In-variably almost Ryder sacrifices everything un-necessary to the realization of an idea in his effortto give the fullest and most forcible expression andeffectiveness to his pictures. Their interest andtheir charm sufficiently prove how wisely he choosesbetween the vital and the ineffectual elements intheir composition and execution. 39 AN AMERICAN PAINTER OFTHE NUDE AN AMERICAN PAINTER OFTHE NUDE MISS LILLIAN GENTH is, so far as I amaware, the only American artist whose wholecareer evidences a deliberate effort to earn a repu-tation as a painter of the nude. Some canvaseswith draped figures, several portraits and a few in-timate landscape studies, undertaken as settings forher nudes, constitute the remainder of her product.In practically all of our great museums and pr

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