Chapter I: Front Matter

From the collection of Mrs. Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

HOMER SAINT-GAUDENS.

BY JOHN S. SARGENT.]

AMERICAN MASTERS OF
PAINTING

BEING

BRIEF APPRECIATIONS OF SOME
AMERICAN PAINTERS

ILLUSTRATED WITH EXAMPLES OF
THEIR WORK

BY

CHARLES H. CAFFIN

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1913

COPYRIGHT, 1901, 1902, BY
THE SUN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO.

COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY.

PUBLISHERS’ NOTE

Thanks are especially due to Colonel Frank J. Hecker and Mr. Charles L. Freer of Detroit; to Mr. George A. Hearn, Mrs. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Mr. Samuel Untermeyer, Mr. William T. Evans, Mr. Daniel Guggenheim, Mr. Louis Marshall, Miss Henrietta E. Failing, Mr. Whitelaw Reid, Mr. James W. Ellsworth, Mr. J. J. Albright, Mr. N. E. Montross, the Carnegie Institute, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,--whose assistance has made possible the inclusion of the reproductions in this illustrated edition.

_Published by the courtesy of The New York Sun._

CONTENTS

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I. George Inness 3

II. John La Farge 19

III. James A. McNeill Whistler 37

IV. John Singer Sargent 55

V. Winslow Homer 71

VI. Edwin A. Abbey 83

VII. George Fuller 101

VIII. Homer D. Martin 115

IX. George de Forest Brush 129

X. Alexander H. Wyant 143

XI. Dwight W. Tryon 155

XII. Horatio Walker 171

XIII. Gilbert Stuart 185

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE

HOMER SAINT-GAUDENS. BY JOHN S. SARGENT _Frontispiece_

THE BERKSHIRE HILLS. BY GEORGE INNESS 4

SUNSHINE AND CLOUDS. BY GEORGE INNESS 5

MIDSUMMER. BY GEORGE INNESS 14

ATHENS. BY JOHN LA FARGE 22

Decorative painting in the Walker Art Gallery, Bowdoin College.

ALTAR PIECE. BY JOHN LA FARGE 23

Church of the Ascension, New York.

THE ANGEL OF THE SUN. BY JOHN LA FARGE 32

Decoration in the Church of the Paulist Fathers, New York.

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST’S MOTHER. BY JAMES A. MCNEILL WHISTLER 42

THE MUSIC ROOM. BY JAMES A. MCNEILL WHISTLER 43

NOCTURNE--BOGNOR. BY JAMES A. MCNEILL WHISTLER 46

THE BALCONY. BY JAMES A. MCNEILL WHISTLER 47

CARMENCITA. BY JOHN S. SARGENT 56

PORTRAIT OF MR. MARQUAND. BY JOHN S. SARGENT 57

THE LOOKOUT--“ALL’S WELL.” BY WINSLOW HOMER 72

THE WEST WIND. BY WINSLOW HOMER 73

THE MAINE COAST. BY WINSLOW HOMER 78

THE PENANCE OF ELEANOR, DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER. BY EDWIN A. ABBEY 86

PAVANE. BY EDWIN A. ABBEY 87

Painted in 1895 to occupy a special place in the room where
it now is.

THE SIMPLE GATHERER. BY GEORGE FULLER 106

WESTCHESTER HILLS. BY HOMER D. MARTIN 120

THE SUN WORSHIPPERS. BY HOMER D. MARTIN 121

OLD CHURCH IN NORMANDY. BY HOMER D. MARTIN 124

THE SCULPTOR AND THE KING. BY GEORGE DE FOREST BRUSH 136

MOTHER AND CHILD. BY GEORGE DE FOREST BRUSH 137

THE MOHAWK VALLEY. BY ALEXANDER H. WYANT 146

THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY. BY ALEXANDER H. WYANT 147

MOONLIGHT AND FROST. BY ALEXANDER H. WYANT 150

SPRING BLOSSOMS. BY DWIGHT W. TRYON 160

EARLY SPRING, NEW ENGLAND. BY DWIGHT W. TRYON 161

EVENING--AUTUMN. BY DWIGHT W. TRYON 166

A STY. BY HORATIO WALKER 174

PLOUGHING IN ACADIA. BY HORATIO WALKER 175