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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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voort, Mr. J. M. Falconer, Mr. W. J. Hays, Mr. R, W. Hub-bard, Mr. J. F. Kensett, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. ThomasHicks, Mr. and Mrs. Worthington Whittredge, Mr. William Page, Miss Bas-comb, and several other ladies. Mr. William Cullen Bryant also was present,and made one of his felicitous speeches. Other speakers were Messrs. Palmer,Gifford, E. Johnson, Hicks, McEntee, Kensett, Page, Falconer, Brevoort, andF. B. Mayer, who tendered the congratulations and best wishes of the com-pany to the venerable artist. Of sports of various sorts there was an abun-dance. The occasion was one that will not soon be forgotten by the personswho brought it into existence. No other American painter, perhaps, has everbeen the recipient of such a token of affection and esteem. Twenty-five years ago Mr. Durand wrote a series of letters to a younglandscape-painter, and published them in The Crayon, an art journal, ownedby his sun, Mr. John Durand. The following extracts from those letters are
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Id J m < U) D s? ■=> I H s a h £ 0 s * m bn X Z .J < Z 1 z D V) ASHER BROWN DURAND. 131 competent representatives of his views on the functions of art: I maintainthat all art is unworthy and vicious which is at variance with truth, and th.uthat only is worthy and elevated which impresses us with the same feelingsand emotions that we experience in the presence of the reality. True artteaches the use of the embellishments which Nature herself furnishes; itnever creates them. All the fascination of treatment in light and dark andcolor are seen in Nature; they are the luxuries of her storehouse, and mustbe used with intelligence and discrimination to be wholesome and invigorat-ing. If abused and adulterated by the poisons of conventionalism, the resultwill be the corruption of veneration for and faith in the simple truths of Na-ture, which constitute the true religion of art, and the only safeguard againstthe inroads of heretical c

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