Art in America: A Critical and Historial Sketch

by S. G. W. Benjamin

CONTENTS.

Page
[I.]
EARLY AMERICAN ART	[13]
[II.]
AMERICAN PAINTERS (1828-1878)	[39]
[III.]
AMERICAN PAINTERS (1828-1878)	[66]
[IV.]
AMERICAN PAINTERS (1828-1878)	[97]
[V.]
SCULPTURE IN AMERICA	[134]
[VI.]
PRESENT TENDENCIES OF AMERICAN ART	[164]
[INDEX.]([A],[B],[C],[D],[E],[F],[G],[H],[I],[J],[K],[L],[M],[N],[O],[P],[Q],[R],[S],[T],[V],[W],[Y].)

ILLUSTRATIONS.

[Some of the illustrations have been moved to the nearest paragraph break for ease of reading. (n. of etext transcriber)]

Subject.	Artist.	Page.
Portrait of a Lady	John Singleton Copley	[Frontispiece]
Family of Bishop Berkeley	John Smybert	[16]
Death on the Pale Horse	Benjamin West	[19]
Death of Montgomery	John Trumbull	[23]
General Knox	Gilbert Stuart	[25]
"Beggar's Opera"	G. Stuart Newton	[27]
"Babes in the Wood"	Rembrandt Peale	[28]
Fanny Kemble	Thomas Sully	[29]
Ariadne	John Vanderlyn	[30]
The Hours	E. G. Malbone	[32]
Jeremiah	Washington Allston	[34]
Dying Hercules	Samuel F. B. Morse	[35]
"Mumble The Peg"	Henry Inman	[40]
Portrait of Parke Godwin	Thomas Le Clear	[43]
Portrait of Fletcher Harper	C. L. Elliott	[45]
An Ideal Head	G. A. Baker	[48]
The Judgement of Paris	Henry Peters Grey	[50]
Miranda	Daniel Huntington	[53]
A Surprise	William Sidney Mount	[55]
Taking the Veil	Robert Weir	[57]
Desolation. From "The Course of Empire"	Thomas Cole	[59]
A Study from Nature	A. B. Durand	[61]
Noon by the Sea-Shore.—Beverly Beach	J. F. Kensett	[63]
Altorf, Birth-Place of William Tell	George L. Brown	[64]
Brook in the Woods	Worthington Whittredge	[67]
Landscape Composition	R. W. Hubbard	[70]
"The Vasty Deep"	William T. Richards	[72]
High Torn, Rockland Lake	Jasper F. Cropsey	[74]
The Parsonage	A. F. Bellows	[75]
Landscape with Cattle	James Hart	[77]
Sunset on the Hudson	Sandford R. Gifford	[80]
A Composition	Frederick E. Church	[82]
A Winter Scene	Louis R. Mignot	[84]
Ship of "The Ancient Mariner"	James Hamilton	[85]
"Whoo!"	William H. Beard	[87]
Lafayette in Prison	E. Leutze	[89]
Portrait of a Lady	William Page	[91]
The Refuge	Elihu Vedder	[93]
Cartoon Sketch: Christ and Nicodemus	John Lafarge	[95]
View on the Kern River	A. Bierstadt	[99]
The Yosemite	Thomas Hill	[100]
The Bathers	Thomas Moran	[101]
Landscape	Jervis M'Entee	[104]
County Kerry	A. H. Wyant	[105]
The Adirondacks	Homer Martin	[107]
A Landscape	J. W. Casilear	[109]
Ship Ashore	M. F. H. De Haas	[111]
A Foggy Morning	W. E. Norton	[112]
A Marine	Arthur Quartley	[114]
Arguing the Question	T. W. Wood	[116]
The Rose	B. F. Mayer	[118]
Dress Parade	J. G. Brown	[120]
A Bed-time Story	S. J. Guy	[121]
The Mother	Eastman Johnson	[123]
Sail-boat	Winslow Homer	[124]
The Scout	Wordsworth Thompson	[126]
On the Old Sod	William Magrath	[127]
"A Matin Song"	Fidelia Bridges	[129]
Study of a Dog	Frank Rogers	[130]
Lost in the Snow	A. F. Tait	[132]
Eve Before the Fall	Hiram Powers	[135]
Orpheus	Thomas Crawford	[137]
Columbus Before the Council. From the Bronze Door of the Capitol at Washington	Randolph Rogers	[139]
The Ghost in "Hamlet"	Thomas R. Gould	[141]
George Washington	J. Q. A. Ward	[143]
Medea	William Wetmore Story	[146]
The Promised Land	Franklin Simmons	[147]
Latona and Her Infants	W. H. Rinehart	[150]
Zenobia	Harriet Hosmer	[152]
Evening	E. D. Palmer	[153]
Bust of William Page	William R. O'Donovan	[155]
Abraham Pierson	Launt Thompson	[157]
The Charity Patient	John Rogers	[158]
The Whirlwind	J. S. Hartley	[159]
Adoration of the Cross byAngels. St. Thomas's Church, New York	Augustus St. Gaudens	[160]
Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a Monument		[162]
The Mowing	Alfred Fredericks	[165]
Birds in the Forest	Miss Jessie Curtis	[169]
Representing the Manner ofPeter's Courtship	Howard Pyle	[171]
Some Art Connoisseurs	W. Hamilton Gibson	[173]
Washington Opening the Ball	C. S. Reinhart	[175]
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston		[178]
The Astonished Abbé	E. A. Abbey	[181]
A Child's Portrait	B. C. Porter	[184]
A Bit of Venice	Samuel Colman	[185]
The Old Orchard	R. Swain Gifford	[187]
A Landscape	George Inness	[188]
La Marguerette—the Daisy	William M. Hunt	[189]
Moonlight	John J. Enneking	[191]
Having a Good Time	Louis C. Tiffany	[192]
Southampton, Long Island	C. H. Miller	[193]
A Study	Frederick Dielman	[195]
The Burgomaster	H. Muhrman	[197]
Burial of the Dead Bird	J. Alden Wier	[200]
The Apprentice	William M. Chase	[201]
The Professor	Thomas Eakins	[204]
The Goose-herd	Walter Shirlaw	[205]
A Spanish Lady	Mary S. Cassatt	[208]
Study of a Boy's Head	W. Sartain	[209]