JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
WITH TEN ILLUSTRATIONS
NICHOLAS L. BROWN
NEW YORK
MCMXXI
Self-portrait of Gauguin.
TO
M.T.H.S.
WHO HELPED ME WITH
ADVICE AND CRITICISM
"Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are the roads of genius."
WILLIAM BLAKE.
CONTENTS
[PART I: THE FORMATION 1849-1885]
[PART II: THE STRUGGLE WITH IMPRESSIONISM 1885-1889]
[PART III: THE SCHOOL OF PONT-AVEN 1889-1891]
[PART IV: THE RETURN TO SAVAGERY 1891-1895]
[PART V: THE FIGHT AGAINST CIVILIZATION 1895-1903]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[SELF-PORTRAIT OF GAUGUIN], Frontispiece
[PORTRAIT OF GAUGUIN'S MOTHER]
[THE PAINTER SCHUFFENECKER AND HIS FAMILY]
[STRUGGLE OF JACOB WITH THE ANGEL]
[THE IDOL]
[TAHITIAN WOMEN]
[HINA MARURU (FEAST TO HINA)]
[THE OLD SPIRIT]
[CALVARY]
[MATAMUA (OLDEN DAYS)]