As for our own progress in the art, the subject, of course, is too well known
for long discussion. Our oldest society, the American Water Color Society, held
its first public exhibition in the National Academy of Design in New York in
1867, a date always remembered by me with infinite pride and pleasure, for upon
the walls of the smallest room close up under the roof was hung my first
exhibited water-color—the only one of my three the hanging committee were good
enough to accept. Two years later—I am happy to say—in 1869, I was elected a member, and I
am further happy to say that I am still in good standing and in high-hanging,
and have so continued from that day down to the present time—a trifle of some
forty-six years. cheap oil paintings
As to my compatriots, I can truthfully say that its membership covers some of
the great water-colorists of our own or any other time, both here and abroad—men
entirely free to do as they pleased, working in anything and all things so long
as, to use their own expression, they "get there," handling body color, in a
veil of silver-gray as an overwash or squeezed in chunks from a tube; undertones
of charcoal gray, overtones of pastel—anything for quality.
Their names are legion: the late E. A. Abbey, Walter Palmer, Chase, the late
Robert Blum, F. S. Church, Cooper, Curran, Eaton, Farrer, the two Smillies,
Childe Hassam, Keller, Murphy, Nicoll, Potthast, the late Henry Smith, etc.,
etc. oil paintings on canvas for sale
These are but a haphazard choice of the men whose work shows the widest
ranges in selection, composition, mass, and technic, and who, in the world of
water-color painting, are masters of the medium.
As to our progenitors, the English water-color school—and I make the
statement with every respect for their high accomplishments—while I believe we
are indebted to them for the very existence of the art itself, I must say that
our own men and art-lovers the world over would have been vastly benefited had
these Englishmen allowed themselves a little more freedom in their methods and
not followed so blindly the traditions of their past. oil painted portraits
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