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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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. Sunday Morning in Virginia is also a negrosubject, four children learning their Bible lesson, and an old woman, withtruly pathetic expression, quietly seated by them. These works are small insize, but painted with largeness of manner, low in tone, and rich in color.Another characteristic American scene is Mr. Johnsons Corn-Husking, which,however, is little more than a sketch, but full of capital suggestions of colorand effect. The figures are arranged in two lines, with baskets before them,all busily engaged in husking the Indian-corn ; the straw makes a golden car-pet, on which they are relieved ; among the incidents is one of the girl whofinds a red ear of corn, whereby her lover may claim a kiss ; in the back-ground is (he farm ; tables are being spread, poultry forage in the straw—altogether a more cheery scene could not be imagined. Mr. Johnsons perception of character is quick and accurate; he does hisown thinking; lie prefers truth to melodramatic effect, but seldom puts in
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0 z zao2 >•<oz D mw H Z< o s 1) WYA TT EA TON. )(;<l jeopardy the popularity of a design; he is patient, industrious, and studious,never deficient in feeling, or in command over his resources, not always ;icrfectin depth and luuiinousness of color or tone, but never metallic or coarse. Hehas a swift, sure sense of effect in composition, and his painting in general issolid and sound. Mr. Wyatt Eaton was born in Philipsburg, a small village of two hundredand fifty inhabitants, on Missisquoi Bay, a part of Lake Chainplain, in Can-ada, on the 6th of May, 1849. His parents were Americans. At the ageof eighteen he came to New York City iu order to study drawing from theantique iu the school of the National Academy of Design. In those days theinstitution had no regular professor. Mr. Edwin White, Mr. Emanuel Leutze,Mr. Henry Peters Gray, and Mr. George A. Baker, by turns furnished theinstruction received by the students, one of the four giving two weeks ser-vices, and theu bein

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