Identifier: landscapefigurepai00sher (find matches)
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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be-coming an artist, it was with great difficultythat he got permission to follow his favouritepursuit. He first studied under Van Os,but derived little benefit from his teaching.It was a dry and formal art that was taughtin his studio, and the young and ardent stu-dent was soon anxious to escape from it. Theinfluence that affected him most, apart fromhis own personality, was Josef Israels. Forhim Mauve had a great affection, and theybecame firm friends. He was also very muchattracted by William Maris, and he had agreat admiration for J. F. Millet. After leaving Van Os, it was necessary forMauve to sell some pictures to gain a living.These were highly finished, carefully drawn,and brilliant in colour, but gave little promisefor the future. But soon after this a moresensitive feeling for nature came to him, andhe began to paint the scenes with which hewas to become so identified, the green fieldsand country lanes, and the soft grey-greendunes, with the shepherds and their flocks going
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ANTON MAUVE 157 to and returning from the pasture lands, orcattle grazing on the scattered patches ofgrass, or ploughmen turning up the soil intofurrows. At the same time his manner ofpainting changed and began to get broader,and his work more certain, and his picturesshowed more of the personal element. Inthe period from 1870 to 1880 his work hasreached maturity and from the technical pointof view is at its best; the workmanship isbrilliant, the brush work vigorous, strong, andeffective, and the colour sparkling, yet the softhazy atmosphere envelops everything in itsmysterious folds, and the very spirit of thescene is given. But we find his views of the meaning oflife and of its expression in art still develop-ing. Though he never surpassed the paint-ings he made during these years, from thepainters standpoint, though technically heeven loses something, still if we would seekthe full poetry of his revelation of nature,and the finer qualities of his own personality,we must go to some

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