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Title: Whistler's pastels : and other modern profiles / by A. E. Gallatin.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Gallatin, A. E.
Subjects: Pastel Drawing
Publisher: John Lane Company
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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chancegiven by a New York dealer in the springof 1911 to view a most representativegroup of the artists coppers, eighty-sevenin number. In the more recent plates,however, of which that reproduced here-with is an example, there is an evanescentquality, delicacy and refinement of his artnot found in the earlier examples of hisetched work. The vision of the artist isstill as intensely searching, his love ofnature just as apparent, but the techniqueis infinitely more subtle than that em-ployed in such of his etchings as the mas-terly study of Ernest Renan, one of the ar-tists greatest plates. In the silvery Bathers—Swedish peasants unabashed in theirnudity—we have such an etching thatleads a critic of his art to inquire: Whosave Zorn has ever etched a triumphantlysuccessful nude en plein airV C 3.5 )Rembrandt and Whistler are certainlythe undisputed masters of the etching-needle, but second only to them fol-lows this virile Swede, in company withMeryon, Cameron and one or two others.
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ZORN The Bathers WINSLOW HOMER WINSLOW HOMER THE MEMORIAL EXHIBITION WInslow Homers art was typi-cally American, and in manyrespefts he was the most representativepainter that this country has produced.Our early artists were imitative to a largeextent, their canvases painted accordingto deeply rooted European traditions, butin Homer we produced a man whoseart was splendidly national. His styledoes not appear to have been influencedby the work of any other painter, andhis composition and technique, so direftand straightforward, were entirely hisown. No painter has excelled, and but one ortwo have equalled, Homer in depi6lingthe majesty and overpowering strengthof the ocean, its sublimity and mystery. ( 40 )His marines form an unrivalled epic ofthe sea. It was eminently fitting, therefore,thatthe Metropolitan Museum of Art shouldhonour this painter, a few months afterhis death (the artist died in September,1910), with a memorial exhibition of hiswork, as they did in the spring of 1910fo

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