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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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med. The power in that tumult is tre-mendous—the spirit of the great deep is there. CHAPTER XXXST. LOUIS, CITY ART MUSEUM n^HE City Art Museum of St. Louis has an-■- interesting and varied collection ofpaintings. There are pictures by many of thenineteenth century artists from most of thecountries of Europe, and a goodly number rep-resenting American painters. Four of the sixpictures selected for illustrations give the gen-eral trend of American painting and of twomen who are beginning to claim attention, af-ter years of more or less obscurity. George Fuller is an artist whose picturesjust at present are being brought before thepublic. He was born in Deerfield, Mass. in1822 and the little training he ever had wasgained in Albany, N. Y. and in Boston. Whenhis Quadroon in the Metropolitan Museum,New York City was exhibited in the early six-ties, or possibly in the fifties, the criticismswere so adverse, it is said, that for eighteenyears the artist sent nothing more to the exhi- 322
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Fig. 218—The Fuller Boy. Fuller. City Art Museum, St. Louis.

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