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Title: What pictures to see in America
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855-1933
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Publisher: New York, J. Lane Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fig. 178—The Return from the Market. Chicago. Troyon. The Art Institute,
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Fig. 179—The Beggar. Manet. The Art Institute, Chicago. CHICAGO 269 traits as this and the Boy with a Sword (seeFig. 50), he was at his best. The very essenceof the nature of each is revealed in a broadsimple manner. CHAPTER XXIVMILWAUKEE, LAYTON ART GALLERY ■fITHEN Mr. Frederick Layton and his wife gave the now famous Layton Galleryto the City of Milwaukee in 1888, they be-stowed a gift that in intellectual value is com-pounding interest to each succeeding genera-tion. The pictures alone collected there havemany rare treasures among them. We canhope to examine but a small number in ourbrief survey. We are drawn at once to *The Wood Gath-erer (Fig. 180), by Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884), for in it we recognize a return to natureand a return, too, in a simple natural waywithout any forced process of primitive meth-ods and crash color scheme. Bastien-Lepagewas great enough to defy the Academicians inParis and paint a scene as he saw it in his ownback yard or wood pile. The impressionis

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