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...American achievement in painting and sculpture more succinctly than it has ever been summarized before (within the memory, at any rate of this reviewer). If he is too severe with Whistler, or too lenient and even worshipful to Winslow Homer, Mr. Cahill at least gives good reasons for his preferonech, and he never lets the historical and nocini nilliett get out of night; he is obviously a nationalist who believes in an indigenous American art, not subservient to European tradition or contemporary whim, but integrated with the actualities of the society in which it is conceived. Like everybody else nowadays...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/1/1935 | See Source »

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