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Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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. The picturewe give (see page 268) represents the artist in a more reasonable mood, though Herkomercan never, it would seem, avoid the melodramatic touch that vitiates so much modern workof this sort and which strongly marks everything he does in art and in life. We sometimes wonder whether any other country can show so many runaways as America. Among the artists they count by scores, and indeed, to tell the truth, we believe there wouldnt be a bakers dozen of them left here at home if they were in every case free to choose their dwelling-place. The next name upon our list is that of Mr. Daniel Ridgway III 272 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. Knight, who Avas born at Philadelphia somewhere in the early tifties and went abroad tostudy in 1872. He worked in the Beaux-Arts and with Gleyre, and was in the studio ofMeissonier in 1876. He has never returned to America to live. He has married a French wife,and is, like many another American in this wandering cosmopolite age of ours, a man with-
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THE INVENTOR. FROM THE PAINTING BY D, RIDGWAY KNIGHT. BY PERMISSION OF MESSRS. CASSELL & CO. out a country. His subjects are drawn almost exclusively from French peasant-life, whichhe treats in a vein more allied to that of Jules Breton than to that of Millet, though free fromthe rather mawkish vein of sentimentalism that Breton so often indulges in. Knight lives inthe country and knows his peasant-neighbors well, and from the long series of his subjects we-get a reasonably vivid picture of the rural year with all its varied occupations. In the pic- ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 273 ture we copy, In October (see page 270), we see the potato-gatherers just at the time whenthe noonday-meal is ready; the soup cooking, and the potatoes roasting in the ashes. Jacques

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