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Title: Landscape and figure painters of America
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, 1874-1940
Subjects: Landscape painting Figure painting
Publisher: New York : Privately printed
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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n who cannot quite let themselves go,as the saying is. He did not receive at hisbirth the gift of a frank and communicativedisposition; and while he does succeed inexpressing himself, and that in no uncertainmanner, but in an attractive and charmingway, we still feel as if it was a little of an efforton his part to take us into his confidence, andthat it is not done quite unconsciously. Hedoes not put you at once at your ease, as doMauve and Weissenbruch, with their picturesso immediately delightful to the eye, yetapparently so simple that one never pauses toconsider how they are painted. We cannothelp being just a little struck with the won-drous ability displayed by James Maris; infact we are constrained to admire. Yet wealmost hesitate to say even this, for he is agreat artist, and the work of each period ofhis life is fine in composition, colour, andsubject, from the time he painted the beauti-ful brown-toned pictures of canal bridges,and towns with their red-roofed houses, to the
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JAMES MARIS 153 latest and broadest of his descriptions ofhorsemen on the tow-path. In his last periodhe is altogether taken up with generalizingthe effects of nature, trying to get its veryessence, giving only the salient facts, andvaguely indicating the innumerable detailsthat are there, yet may only be barely hintedat. He forgets all about the means and isintent only on the end; he is himself and he isin many ways at his greatest, notwithstandinga lack of defmiteness and a daring freedomwhich some do not like. But indeed nearlyall his work is splendid, though it may be thatit belongs too near to the present day to enableus to see it in true proportion and to realizeits greatness. The fact that his character lends itself toan analysis of this kind shows how interestingthe man and his career are, and as we studyhis pictures, which are all very original andvivid impressions of what he saw, and as wefind their beauty revealing itself and growingon us, we know that we are in the presenc

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