Art Notes, Edições 58-73

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Página 1062 - Meanwhile, if these hours be dark, as, indeed, in many ways they are, at least do not let us sit deedless, like fools and fine gentlemen, thinking the common toil not good enough for us, and beaten by the muddle; but rather let us work like good fellows trying by some dim candle-light to set our workshop ready against tomorrow's daylight...
Página 1065 - The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature, and secondly, to enter as a factor in general civilization.
Página 1037 - There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the best places. A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates, as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
Página 1230 - Year 1807 : classed under distinct Heads, with their Dates ; comprehending an Epitome of English History, with an exact Chronology of Eminent Men, &c.
Página 1043 - ... inches in height; was born on a farm fifteen miles from where Lincoln was born; was about forty years of age and had been splitting rails all his life. The result is a monstrous figure which is grotesque as a likeness of President Lincoln and defamatory as an effigy.
Página 1078 - Nothing was good without a foreign name on it. Why, when one of our biggest dealers on Fifth Avenue, was asked to procure for a gentleman two American pictures for one thousand dollars each, he said he could not take the order because there was not a picture produced in America worth one thousand dollars.
Página 1171 - The Trustees of the Art Institute have decided that Chicago ought to give more attention to the purchase of paintings for the adornment of homes. They believe Chicago artists ought to be encouraged and thereby prevented from going to other cities where there are better markets. Many collectors habitually go east for pictures and ignore the Chicago market, and eastern museums because of a deep tradition have had a better opportunity to make sales. A better Chicago market will guarantee a higher standard...
Página 1096 - It is quite time to sound a note of warning in regard to Blakelock pictures. I have recently seen several bearing his name which I am quite sure the artist never saw and others which have been so much worked over and retouched that very little of the original has been left. There has been a genuine demand for his best canvases, and they are fine enough to entitle him to a place in any collection. These desirable ones are, however, comparatively few and to meet the demand the dishonest agent, as usual...
Página 1232 - List of several of the most eminent Painters of the Old School — with a scale of their different merits ; found amon9 the papers of a distinyuished Artist lately dettased.
Página 1222 - West, where the tradition of a salt-water-journey for any picture worth buying, is not so firmly rooted, it is only the occasional person of great wealth who patronizes our living artists. The Times writer would be more than surprised to know just how many American pictures are bought on the "installment plan," by those who really love them but to whom outright payment of the artist's price would be a permanent bar to ownership. It is not too much to say that, so far as our own experience goes, those...

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