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Identifier: internationalstu10newy08 (find matches)
Title: International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York. John Lane Co
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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d than in the domainof painting. Thousands ofpainters paint and exhibit,critics write about them,106 and the public occasionally buys their work; but afterone or two decades only a few names remain. Nomatter how many clever and popular exponentsthis or that school may have, after the lapse of ageneration it is represented merely by three orfour men, and in the course of another twenty-fiveyears even the leading characteristics of the rivalschools have become blurred, and the wholeperiod is remembered but by a handful of men,and they are invariably those who reflected bestthe taste and aspirations of their time. The work of Eastman Johnson seems to possessthis surviving quality. He — who followed soassiduously in the footsteps of Inman and Mount—is to-day generally recognised as the leadinggenre painter of America. His life covered fourscores of years. He was born in August, 1824, atLovell, Maine, and died April 5, 1906, in New YorkCity—a long career, in which most men would have
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