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Identifier: americanartamer01mont (find matches)
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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A Lady of Cairo Visiting ETCHED BY JAMES D. SMIELIE, FROM A PAINTING EV Frederic A. Bridgman. The original painting is now in the possession of Mr. John Taylor Johnson, of New York. Thisis one of the paintings resulting from Mr. Bridgmans visit to Egypt and the Nile some years ago. Mr. Smillie evinced a fondness for etching at a very early age. When thirty-one he was electedan Associate of the National Academy of Design, and eleven years later he was made an Academi-cian. He was among the founders of the American Water-Color Society, and, with Dr. L. M. Yale,organized the New York Etching Club. This etching is an excellent interpretation of Mr. Bridg-mans painting, which affords us an insight into Egyptian customs.
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Q J P3 l—l Pn Eh go H i> rt ) a Q E- 35 pq a «j n P3 »-t fe rt H M c^ P5 s Ixi ^ pq Ph !=> EhPh C/3 Eh <J OQ<i Pm H P^ P- Decoration for an jEouan Harp. — By F. A. Bridgman —From a Sketch by the Artist. FREDERIC ARTHUR BRIDGMAN. Chapter Seventeenth. THIRTY years ago there was scarcely anAmerican artist who could have been fairlyjudged without constant reference to the fact ofhis nationality. Our art was then to a great ex-tent an isolated development, with rather arbitrarystandards of its own. We were proud of ourpainters and of the peculiar sort of success theyhad achieved; but in estimating their ability weappealed to little beyond home competition andhome approval. Of late years, however, our arthas grown to maturer stature, and is now amena-ble to the severest tests of merit. A whole gen-eration of young American painters believe inthe necessity of scientific training, and appeal toEuropean criticism and to cosmopolitan standardsof success. Mr.

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