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English: James A. M. Whistler, engraved by Frederick Juengling

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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oo o AMERICAN* ART 509 time to draw the cross-threads of that whiteshirt, far too white forthat dirty, slovenly boy.Is it Mr. JLathropscareless drawing, or on-ly the Juengling man-ner, that we have againin the portrait of Edison(Scribner for October,1879, page 840)? Hereeven the brush-marksare a failure, more. re-sembling clumsy wood-carving. The likenessmay be correct; but any-thing more weak andunpleasant as an engrav-ing I have not found.Am I too hard uponthe Juengling method?I think not, free to con-fess that there too istalent, which may beturned to good accountif the engravers (or hispatrons) eccentricitiescan be got rid of. Very different is thetreatment of a head byMr. Kruell. 1 have al-ready praised his por-trait of Mr. FletcherHarper, in Harper s Weekly.
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James A. M. Whistler.—Engraved by F. Juengling. From the Original, by Whistler, in the possession of Mr. S. P. Avery. From Scribners Monthly Magazine/ Another portrait of Mr. Harper, after Elliott, came out in Vol. LIX. of Harper s Monthly, and reappears in Art in America. It deserves the same unmixedapproval as was given to the larger head: form and effect well cared for, no meaningless oroffensive lines, every line drawn with the graver, the face well modelled and made out, thoughnot a fourth of the size of the Juengling heads already noticed. Granted some difference in thedrawings, the different intention as well as the different method of the engraver is no less appar-ent. I suppose there may be brush-marks in Elliotts picture, some manner also, to be caughtif important. But Mr. Kruell has been careful not to caricature such small matters, — hascared rather, perhaps only, to give us a noble portrait, a good likeness, a picture to satisfy bothpainter and critic. This, and not t

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  • bookid:americanartamer01mont
  • bookyear:1889
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Montgomery__Walter
  • booksubject:Art
  • booksubject:Artists
  • bookpublisher:Boston__E_W__Walker___co
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:634
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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