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Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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n) ; The Sheepfold (be-longing to the National Acad-emy) ; Motint Desert; The School-boy ; Feeding the Pet, and A ColdSnack. His water-color entitledStreet Scene, Rome, was at the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876, together with a crayon draw-ing of Puritans barricading their Houses against the Indians. It would be an almost endlesstask to enumerate even the titles of the volumes which were embellished by Darleys readypencil, not to speak of the great quantity of work which he executed of a more commercialnature; — but it would be a pity to omit mention of the charming vignettes with which heillustrated Ik Marvels Reveries of a Bachelor, — drawings touched with an exquisite daintinessclosely allied to those tender and delicate fancies, — or the designs which accompany Trowbridgespathetic poem of The Vagabonds. A writer on art has said, There is no department of art, in which true genius can bemore strikingly displayed, than in that of drawing where few lines are used, and no color
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A Venetian Canal. Drawn by Darley. 396 AMERICAN ART and little shadow to conceal defects. In this branch of draughtsmanship Darley was a master,and has no superiors, and but few equals. An article in the Encyclopaedia Americana speaksof his outline illustrations to Margaret and The Scarlet Letter as follows:—These out-line drawings very adequately represent Darleys genius, and, without disparagement to manyother admirable designs executed by him, they may be said to constitute the most valuableportion of his lifework. Margaret; a Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom, is A remarkable story of New England primitive life; — it is intense in its pyschological phases,graphic in its details of still life, powerful and subtle in its grasp of character, and vivid inits sense of beauty; yet unfinished in style, with little dramatic harmony; crude in execution,though original and vital in material. Lowell, in his Fable for Critics, characterizes it thus: Margaret; the first Yankee B

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