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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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dge of the wood, where Millet and Rousseau livedand worked so many years. Peirces exhibition, in addition to the February picture, containedhis October, from the Salon of 1883, and numerous other landscapes from Fontainebleau, Barbi-zon, and Fleury-en-Biere, a little village where our artist sojourned and fixed on canvas many pleas-ing and admirably painted transcripts of peasant life and its environment. He is at his best in the representation of places which are most closely interwoven with humanlife, saturated, so to speak, with the influences of the generations of mortals who have in turn sub- AMERICAN ART 371 sisted on the soil and been laid beneath it. Our mother country is full of such places, and, as JohnBurroughs writes in his paper on Mellow England, Nature here has been so long under thedominion of man, has been taxen up and lain down by him so many times, worked over and overwith his hands, fed and fattened by his toil and industry, and, on the whole, has proved herself so
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Does Mother want Me? Drawn by Peirce. willing and tractable, that she has taken on something of his image, and seems to radiate his pres-ence. Peirce portrays such spots so admirably that one cannot quarrel with him, as we feel justifiedin doing with many American artists, for being blind to the beauties of their native land and seek-ing hackneyed subjects abroad. Moreover, his brush has also traced some excellent Americanlandscapes drawn from the Massachusetts coast, not far from Boston. When his next exhibition of 372 AMERICAN ART pictures opened in that city, it was seen that the painter in his second foreign trip, had left the landof the blue blouse and wooden shoe for that of the white smock-frock and the hobnail, exchangingthe green fields of northern France for the still more fertile meadows of central England. A happychoice, indeed, for where could an artist find a spot more full of the charm of legend, history, andassociation than Warwickshire : — That shire which we the he

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