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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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f new ideas of form and color. No less than the years spent at the Beaux-Arts orwith the student colony in Brittany, these years too meant steady work and progress. Mr.Bridgman has of late passed most of his time in Paris, which has been adopted as his per-manent home, and whither he constantly returns after short visits to America. Recent sum-mers have again been spent in the north of France, and from them result, I think, the mostdelightful works the artist has yet produced. Mr. Bridgman has been a steady contributor to the Salon from so early a date in his careeras 1868. His first decided success was won by the Circus in 1870. In 1877 he obtained amedal. The Universal Exhibition of 1878 brought him another medal and the decoration ofthe Legion of Honor, and his works are now hors conconrs at the Paris Salons. I may as well say, in the beginning, that, in spite of the many excellences to be foundin even the least spontaneous of the pictures shown in his superb exhibition, it was Mr.
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THE SLIPPER MERCHANT. PHOTOTYFIC REPRODUCTION OF A PEN-AND-INK SKETCH BY F. A. BRIDGMAN- AMERICAN ART 183 Bridgmans studies, and not hismore careful creations, that weremost striking and most delightful.They revealed, moreover, an en-tirely new and unpredicted aspectof his talent. Even critics who hadmost carefully studied all the pic-tures he had previously sent us,and who felt quite sure that theyhad formed therefrom a just esti-mate of his ability, were forcedby the first glance at these studiesto reconsider the whole matter andto remake their estimate. I shallreturn to them in the sequel, con-sidering first the pictures that arebest known, most easily describedin words, and usually denominatedmost important. Among the large canvases whichhave fought Mr. Bridgmans com-petitive battles for him, and whichare probably familiar to my read-ers, I may cite as present in thisfine exhibition the Circus, theFuneral of a Mummy, the Pastimeof an Assyrian King, the AllahAchbar! the Arab Women

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