# American painting and its tradition

Author: Van Dyke, John C., 1856-1932

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73811

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=American+painting+and+its+tradition+Van+Dyke&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The painters about whom these chapters are written helped to make up the period in American painting dating, generally, from about 1878 to, say, 1915. That period has practically closed in the sense that a newer generation with different aims and aspirations has come forward, and the men who broke ground years ago in the Society of American Artists have turned their furrow and had their day. Indeed, those I have chosen to write about herein, with the exception of Sargent, have passed on and passed out. Not only their period but their work has ended. We are now beginning to see them in something like historic perspective. Perhaps, then, the time is opportune for speaking of them as a group...

## Chapters

- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-painting-and-its-tradition-73811/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-painting-and-its-tradition-73811/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-painting-and-its-tradition-73811/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-painting-and-its-tradition-73811/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-painting-and-its-tradition-73811/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-painting-and-its-tradition-73811/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-painting-and-its-tradition-73811/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-painting-and-its-tradition-73811/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-painting-and-its-tradition-73811/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-painting-and-its-tradition-73811/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-painting-and-its-tradition-73811/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-painting-and-its-tradition-73811/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-painting-and-its-tradition-73811/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-painting-and-its-tradition-73811/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-painting-and-its-tradition-73811/chapters/15/index.md)