BEING
BRIEF APPRECIATIONS OF SOME
AMERICAN PAINTERS
ILLUSTRATED WITH EXAMPLES OF
THEIR WORK
BY
CHARLES H. CAFFIN

Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1913

Copyright, 1901, 1902, by
THE SUN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO.
Copyright, 1902, by
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY.

PUBLISHERS’ NOTE

Thanks are especially due to Colonel Frank J. Hecker and Mr. Charles L. Freer of Detroit; to Mr. George A. Hearn, Mrs. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Mr. Samuel Untermeyer, Mr. William T. Evans, Mr. Daniel Guggenheim, Mr. Louis Marshall, Miss Henrietta E. Failing, Mr. Whitelaw Reid, Mr. James W. Ellsworth, Mr. J. J. Albright, Mr. N. E. Montross, the Carnegie Institute, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,—whose assistance has made possible the inclusion of the reproductions in this illustrated edition.

Published by the courtesy of The New York Sun.

CONTENTS

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[I.][George Inness][3]
[II.][John La Farge][19]
[III.][James A. McNeill Whistler][37]
[IV.][John Singer Sargent][55]
[V.][Winslow Homer][71]
[VI.][Edwin A. Abbey][83]
[VII.][George Fuller][101]
[VIII.][Homer D. Martin][115]
[IX.][George de Forest Brush][129]
[X.][Alexander H. Wyant][143]
[XI.][Dwight W. Tryon][155]
[XII.][Horatio Walker][171]
[XIII.][Gilbert Stuart][185]