American Masters of Painting: Being Brief Appreciations of Some American Painters

· 1918

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. In the record of American art three names stand out distinctly as those of innovators: Whistler, La Farge, and George Inness. While Whistler’s influence has been felt throughout the whole art world,…

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