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Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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doubtful weather.. FROM THE PICTURE BY ALFRED STEVENS fact that in his own field Stevens has shown the same love of truth and the same dependenceupon nature. He is often spoken of as if, like Baugniet, he were a mere faithful recorder of 328 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. the fashions in dress prevailing in his time, but, to our thinking, this is a superticial estimate
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MARINE. FROM THE PAINTING BY PIERRE-JEAN CLAYS. of his position as an artist. In Baugniets pictures the dresses of his women and their sur-roundings are the things we look and think aboxit. As for the people themselves, it is impos- ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 329 sible to care a rusli for them. But in all the best pictures of Stevens—and he is not alwaysat his best—it is the people we think of, and not seldom they are women —like Baugniet, herarely, we may well say he never, paints men—whose characters are well worth studying.In Mr. Albert Spencers The Eve of the Election a lady going home from the flower-marketwith an armful of lilacs (her husbands party-flower?), and in a picture of A Lady standingby a Harp which first brought us acquainted with Stevens, but which long since passed outof our ken, not to mention a half-dozen others that have appeared here from time to time,we recognize a close observer of human-nature even if his observations have been limited toone class o

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