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Title: Landscape and figure painters of America
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, 1874-1940
Subjects: Landscape painting Figure painting
Publisher: New York : Privately printed
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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losely, at the rightdistance the effect is perfect; and with whatskill he hangs the brass chandeliers on theirlong chains down from the lofty roof, verilysuspended in air. Indeed everything he paintsis done with the one object always before him,to put on his canvas the interiors as he seesthem, full of light and shadow, with everydetail enveloped in atmosphere, and so welldoes he render their mystery and poetry thathe has been called the Corot of interiors. We often wonder what it is exactly in Bos-booms pictures that makes us like them somuch. We do not specially care for architect-ure; there is little human interest in his in-teriors; the cathedrals and churches are usedfor services, but it is not the use of their shadowyhalls by man, nor their religious side, thatappeals to him, and that he shows to us. Whatis it then? It can only be that, no matterwhat he paints, the genius of the man putsinto it the poetry and the love of beauty thatbelong to his own nature; and his great ability
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JOHANNES BOSBOOM *33 is shown in being able to delight us with whatin other less imaginative hands would onlybe realistic copies of cold interiors of churches,or peasants homes, with no living interestin them. Yet such ordinary material thisalchemist is able to turn into pure gold. Bosboom was of a very sociable and agree-able disposition, and was very much liked andlooked up to by his fellow artists. It is cheer-ing to hear of his remark when no longeryoung, You do not know how many nicepeople I have met with in my life. Thushappily went by the too short years of thispeaceful revolutionary. Mr. P. A. M. Boele Van Hensbroek gives Dutch a very charming account of the celebration ^j^e°f of Bosbooms seventieth birthday by the mem- teenth Cen-tury. bers of the Pulchri Studio, a society of artists,literary men, and lovers of art, in March,1887, in their domed-shaped room, with itswooden ceiling and carved chimney-piece,and its walls hung with sketches by themembers. In the middle of the f

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