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The two greatest realists America has produced were men of the late 19th century: Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins and New England's Winslow Homer. The Eakins and Homer opposite are public favorites respectively at the Fort Worth Art Center and the Butler Art Institute (in Youngstown, Ohio). These...
What the four had in common was honesty and joy in life. Otherwise, they were as different as artists can be. Albert Pinkham Ryder best expressed their common joy when he remarked that "the artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread and his easel, and all the rest...
Both men, the first an uncompromising romantic and the second a thoroughgoing realist, fortunately had simple tastes to match their small incomes. Ryder used to compare himself to an inchworm revolving on the end of a twig. The fact that he was able to take his time resulted in some...
Among them was Walt Whitman, who cried over the roofs of the world that Eakins "is not a painter, he is a force."
If Eakins was a force, George Inness was just a gentle spirit. Epileptic and almost entirely self-taught, he lived in the shadow of such showy Hudson River school painters as Thomas Cole and Asher Durand. Inness preferred for subject matter the limited, charming sort of view that his studio...