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Title: Landscape and figure painters of America
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, 1874-1940
Subjects: Landscape painting Figure painting
Publisher: New York : Privately printed
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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eatures, that he would agree with WaltWhitman: Songof I think I could turn and live with animals, Myself. they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.They do not lie awake in the dark, and weep for their sins,Not one is dissatisfied —Not one is respectable, or unhappy over thewhole earth. Yes! William Maris has also looked at themlong and long; and he has now, throughclose study, and thorough acquaintance withtheir every mood, the power of reproducingthem on canvas, with a few broad strokes ofhis brush, yet giving their very anatomy andconstruction, as these appear to the eye. When we wish to escape from the eternalsadness so much about us, and which per-haps finds too much expression in art, we turnwith joy to William Maris and his happy andhealthy ideas of life, and from his sunny pas-tures and cool ponds there is wafted to us abreath of refreshing country air that bringspeace and comfort in its train. Like that of his fellow-artists, his work has
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WILLIAM MARIS 181 grown broader as the years have passed by;and the beauty, strength, and decision of hisrecent work are the result of the knowledgeand skill to which he has attained, after yearsof earnest working in his favourite pursuit.He is to-day the first of living landscape artistswho paint cattle, and it is safe to predict thathe will stand in the future in the front rankof the animal painters of the world. CHAPTER XII J. H. WEISSENBRUCH 1824-1903. Dutch Painters of the Nineteenth Century. F. A.E.L. Smissaert. The recent death of J. H. Weissenbruch,which occurred early in 1903, has removed awell-known figure from the artistic world ofHolland. His was one of those happy, cheer-ful natures that enjoy a simple life completelyoccupied with the art they love. Like Corot,he spread sunshine around him. He wasbound up in his work, and was greatly lovedby his fellow-artists, who looked up to himwith admiration. One of them, Mr. Smissaert,writes: Among the older generation Weissen-bruch

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