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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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i Entrance to elephant house in the Bronx Zoological Park IModel of African elephant head by Knight ing as the "Leopard with Flamingo" which Brush pronounces of great imagi- native merit — a picture good in com- position, splendid in technique, fine in drawing, beautiful in color, we distinct- ly feel that criticism is vain, that no other painter in America has perhaps ever done so fine a pure art thing of animals. Also when we look at such a painting as the "Tiger and Cobra," criticism is vain for we are look- 96 ing at the work of a master of color. It is worthy of note that his pictures have no ear- marks, unless the mural char- acter might be termed such, by which they can always be recognized, as is the case in the work of many artists. He has apparently made no at- tempt to imitate the work of any artist or school of artists or to follow along the line of any style or technique in any individual piece of his own work. He attempts each time to make a portrait or an imaginative group true to life and his own idea, with an artistic setting, apparently delighting in adjusting him- self anew both to subject and technique. We have heard little or nothing in recent years how- ever, either in Europe or America of animal painters. It has been true in the art world that if a man did not paint cattle or sheep, portraits, figures, still life or landscape he did not paint anything, the cattle, and sheep

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