 | 1867 - 302 páginas
...contented with being liberal and absorbed themselves, but they demanded that everybody should be as they were. Accordingly, we find in the papers of this...dwelling somewhat upon its probable bearing upon American aft. with works bearing, for the most part, the most honored names in American art. Everybody admitted... | |
 | John K. Howat, Frederic Edwin Church - 2005 - 236 páginas
...artists and critics in 1866 recognizing, even more fully than in 1864, the importance of the Sanitär)' Fair Art Gallery, and we doubt not that future years will develop yet more indubitably that importance."6 One direct result of the fair was the establishment of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.... | |
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... This exhibition of pictures was one that we have reason long to remember. It was not only a collection of peculiar value in itself, but it marked an epoch in the art history of this country. We find artists and critics in 1866 recognizing, even more... 