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Identifier: americanartamer01mont (find matches)
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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rtheless a very noble rendering of one of the best types ofAmerican womanhood. A well executed etching by Mr. Schoff gives a very excellent ideaof the general characteristics of this admirable portrait. One of the last portraits, besides hisown, which left Mr. Hunts easel, is that of Mr. William H. Gardiner. It is a strong impressionof nature, boldly and vigorously handled and colored. Having seen the original enter the exhi-bition and stand near the picture, I was struck with the force of the likeness, in spite of someexaggerations in drawing and color in the painting. It is fit that this list, made up of a fewrepresentative examples, but very far from being exhaustive, should close with the artists ownportrait, painted for Mr. Peter C. Brooks, Jr., in February, 1879. Draped in mourning, it hangsin the gallery surrounded by a wreath of living ivy; before it floral offerings, which are renewedby the hands of friends from day to day. It is hardly satisfactory as a rendering of the fine
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W. M. HUNT, PINX. W. J. LINTON, DEL. ET SC. PORTRAIT OF MR. ALLAN WARDNER. Original in the Possession of Mrs. W. M. Evarts, New Yoik. AMERICAN ART 99 lines and strong characteristics of that wonderful head, — and, indeed, it may be said that Mr.Hunt never did full justice to himself; but it is, nevertheless, a vivid, manly sketch, whichcontains so much of the artists personality and magnetism that it will always be highly prized. The transition from portraiture to genre and history is best marked by some of the idealheads. Among these there are two which are especially deserving of notice: the Head of ayewess, a most refined picture of the best Couture period, and the Priscilla, owned by Mr.Thomas Wigglesworth. This is evidently a later work, strong in color and in the effect of lightand shadow, but carefully painted. The very limited number of compositions of importance containing more than two figuresis a feature of the exhibition which necessarily strikes every careful observer.

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