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Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ooms of the Art-Students League. To the National Academy Exhibition of 1875 Mr. Chase, Mr. David Neal, Mr. J. Alderi Weir, Mr. Wyatt Eaton, and other young artists, contributed a series of works which possessed features so new and striking that public attention was directed to them at once. In breadth and freedom of treatment, in tone, in a certain freshness and vitality of conception, these pictures were altogether apart from most of those that surrounded them, and that the traditional visitor to the Academy expected to see. It was on this occasion that some of the rising young members of the present Society of American Artists made their first appearance in public. Not long afterward, in the rooms of Messrs. Cottier & Company, in New York, a similar collection was displayed, Mrs. Helena De Kay Gilder, Miss Oakey, Mr. Francis Lathrop, Mr.A. II. Thayer, and Mr. Albert Ryder, being also contributors. In the Academy Exhibition of 1877 the young artists had a fine representation, and
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THE COURT-JESTER. From a Painting by William M. Chase. p. 156. WILLIAM M. CHASE. 157 were treated with unusual courtesy by the hanging committee; and the next year, though many of them sent works to the regular Academy Exhibition an exhibition of their own was organized in the Kurtz Gallery, in the same city. Notable among the artists there represented were Mr. W. H. Low, Mr. William Sartain, Mr. Thomas Eakins, Mr. Thomas Moran, Mr. William E.Bunce, Mr. Charles H. Miller, Mr. William M. Hunt, Mr. John S. Sargent, Mr. W. S. Macy, Mr. R. Swain Gifford, Miss Elizabeth Booth, Mr. Frank Duveneck, Mr. W. Twachtmann, Mr. Charles S. Pearce, Mr. T. W. Dewing, Mr. A. H. Wyant, Mr. Charles G. Dyer, Mr. John La Farge, Mr. Samuel Colman, Mr. LouisC. Tiffany, Mr. James M. Whistler, Mr. Homer D. Martin, Mr. J. C. Beckwith, Mr. J. McClure Hamilton, Mr. C. B. Comans, Mr. Frederick Bridgman, Mr.George Inness, Mr. George Inness, Jr., Mr. Frederick Dielman, Mr. William Dannat, and Mr. Olin L. Warner, in additio

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