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Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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rley. — Drawn by Darley. From The Riverside Magazine. Published by Hurd & Houghlon. evidence also of always haste, that enemy of perfection. During the War much attention toart was not to be expected: the earliest news had to be cared for. Again my criticism refersonly to the engraving. The sketches of Waud, Homer, and others, do not come into my province,except so far as I may remark, while recognizing their originality and vigor, that the drawingson the wood could only be hurried, and the engraver also had to work against time. Excep-tions of course may be found. A masterly portrait of Martin Van Buren, drawn I suppose byWallin, whose portraits are always good, appears in No. 293, Vol. VI., vigorously and beautifullyengraved and as well printed. There is no engravers name to it. In 1863 (Nov. 21) I findanother good piece of large work, — the Great Russian Ball, drawn on the wood by WinslowHomer. By 1871 the improvement is very noticeable. Designs and engravings assume a more
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AN OLD-TIME SCENE IN ST. AUGUSTINE. DRAWN BY GRANVILLE PERKINS. AMERICAN ART 459 ambitious character, both in size and in effect, But the engraving is not much improved.Allowing for exceptions, I would rather call it more careless than ever. And by this time sogreat a proportion of foreign work occupies the paper that it is impossible, unless led by namesof known engravers (seldom allowed to assert themselves in an engraving establishment), to placeanything as really native talent. Anderson and Adams — it cannot be too often repeated — drew with the graver. Had An-dersons Ridinger and Teniers prints been taken as exemplars, (but it would seem that these hadpassed out of sight, disregarded and forgotten,) the large work required in the newspapers hadbeen a noble education for the engravers. Even in Andersons rudest work every line is theline of an artist, a line with meaning: the ordinary newspaper cutting had no meaning. Exceptin the portraits, the one object appeared to be to kee

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