Aims and Ideals of Representative American Painters

Buffalo, NY: E. M. Berlin, 1901. Hardcover. VG. Greenish cloth. 114 pp. 2 bw repros. [[numerous ink notes]]. Not listed in Karpel. Contains 20 short chapters, titled as follows: Art and The Human Need For Beauty; Education Necessary to The Intelligent Appreciation of Art; Art and Nature; The Pre-Raphaelite Influence Upon American Painters; The Barbizon Influence Introduced by William M. Hunt; The Genius of Wyant; Inness, The Virile and Versatile Interpreter of The American Landscape; The Originality of Whistler; Whistler's Theory of Art, as Exemplified in (truncated) His "Arrangements, Harmonies and Nocturnes"; Whistler As A Portrait Painter; Sargent: His Fortunate Career and Brilliant Achievements; Edwin Lord Weeks, An American Interpreter of Oriental Subjects; An American Painter of French Peasants (Charles Sprague Pearce); The Idealism of Ridgeway Knight; An American Painter of Dutch Subjects (J. Gari Melchers); William M. Chase, The Master Technicist; John La Farge, The American Colorist; The Great American Genre Painter, Winslow Homer; Marine, Animal, Figure and Landscape Painters; Conclusion. Quite uncommon. (Inventory #: 1346)