English: Drawing titled "To the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers," executed in 1863, one of a number of laudatory Civil War allegories that Rimmer drew.

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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session of the Boston Art Club. Drawn by Th. Fleming. — From a Photograph. well executed, a fine work of art, and a splendid study of nature. It shows a profound com-prehension of the construction, movement, weight, and balance of the human figure; and, ifplaced side by side with the best nude statues of the French sculptors of to-day, it would befound that what it lacks of nervous touch, of freshness and clearness of form, could easily havebeen made good by a greater and more constant familiarity with living models. There aresome parts of the figure, like the movement of the left side, the line of the back, breast, andabdomen, that seem to be as well understood as they possibly can be. As it is, it taxes thecredulity to the utmost to believe that any one, however strong, could have got so much outof the limited facilities enjoyed by Dr. Rimmer. It can only be made credible by the fact thathe possessed a marvellous insight into things physical and spiritual. He saw without his eyes,
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00 P3 Eh E> O> oo EhEh 00 KO<!oo 00 < 3 PS Eh O Eh AMERICAN ART 34* and this kind of seeing was developed to a high degree in his art work, partly, no doubt,because living models could not then be had at any price. Another notable fact about thisfigure is that its author was forty-five years of age when he executed it. To succeed as wellas he did, without long and constant study and practice before arriving at that age, to get somuch of true sculpture touch and sentiment into general form and detail with so little adequatepreparation, is indeed a wonder. It will be a long time before we have a right to expect as good a work from any American.Many will ask now, and more will ask hereafter, why it is that such a specimen of sculpturehas not been, and even now is not, better appreciated; why it has not been reproduced in somelasting and worthy material for some honorable public place; why it has not been duplicated,so as to enable it to find a more general recognition among a

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