Identifier: artwilliam00bart (find matches)
Title: Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett.
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Bartlett, Truman Howe
Subjects: American Painting
Publisher: James R. Osgood and Co.
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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is the want of a surrounding world of art so apparent as in his struggles withcolor, in which he gained no reputation; and his paintings would hardly attractserious general attention as such. In the most successful of them, there is a tendencytowards yellows and browns, which has led many people to conjecture that their authormust have been afflicted with defective color-vision; while in others, in which thereappears to be a determined effort to get rid of this tendency, the combinations areunpleasantly cold and inharmonious. Yet the artist loved color, and it Avas one of hisfondest hopes to spend his old age in the enjoyment of painting. My dear, Ave willrevel in paint one of these days, Avas an oft-repeated and longing expression addressedto his youngest daughter. The tAvo pictures Avhich arc the most successful in thisrespect, and Avliich warrant the belief that he had the natural capacities of a painterand colorist of strength and quality, are the Vends and Adonis, and Madonna and
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1 ^/ A E1 HBbji- 1 *-#* Mjjji ^j K^d^H ■■ *w -->* « ^^H^ff*^ Jl EEji.- / ) ~* *> vj;;l Mmmci i ^^^ jpk? DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATIONS. I 27 Child. With them ought also to be mentioned The Sentinel. As compositionsthey are worthy of the artist. The color of the Venus is rich and powerful, Un-drawing and construction masterly in parts. The Madonna is fine and tender ; andthe Sentinel, in its conception, statuesque. As compositions Dr. Rimmers pictures are more extensive and complete than hisdrawings. In them he seemed to go to the end of the expression of force, weight,and concentration. Some of them have a grand swing of arrangement; others, themost delicate touch of sentiment. In a small picture of a shipwreck, where an enormous vessel is represented withher bow towards the spectator, the waves are made terribly and irresistibly destructive,not as a turbulent force of water as seen in mid-ocean in a great storm, Avhen theybreak with the abruptness of a mountain ledge, overwh

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