Identifier: whatpicturestoseea00brya (find matches)
Title: What pictures to see in America
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855-1933
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Publisher: New York, J. Lane Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e suddenlybecame conscious that she was one of the com-petent ones of the world and that the worldacknowledged her as a master-painter. But for the stories of the wonderful pre-cocity of Benjamin West as a boy-artist, andhis painting of Indians in their native dress inthe Death of General Wolfe, it is doubtfulif he would have been considered an Americanartist at all. It is true that he was born nearPhiladelphia and spent his boyhood in theQuaker City; and he may have painted hisbaby sister with a brush from pussys tail, butthat this early precocity did not bear muchartistic fruit in later life his many hundredcanvases testify. If it had not been for hisbusiness ability, clever success with George IIIand his presidency of the Royal Academy onewonders if as an artist he could claim any spe-cial attention—probably not. Death on the Pale Horse (Fig. 94),Wests most widely known picture, is paintedin the grand style he assumed in his large com-positions, possibly thinking to follow in the
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