Excerpt from Progress of Art, in the Century
Walker have the Common Bond of Exceptional Pro misc and Early Death. - In English Art, Mason and Walker as Indissolubly Associated as Shelley and Keats. - The Pastoralists and the Idyllists. - Where the Idyllists Fall Short - Francois Millet not an Idyllist. - Melancholy as the Base in Modern Art - Its Causes - The True Naturists. - Their Outlook. - Mason and Walker the Painters of an Ideal World. - Goerge Mason - His Work and its Quality. -his Three Famous Masterpieces, The Return from Ploughing, The Evening Hymn, and The Harvdst Moon. - His Early Death - His Tardy Recognition as an Original and Fine Painter. - His Achieve ment in Art and his Influence Since - Difference between Mason and Walker. - Walker's First Academy Picture, The Bathers, a Significant Work - The Two Men as Men. - Anecdote of Mason - Another Personal Problem.
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