Benjamin West, John Galt, and the biography of 1816.(Critical Essay)(Biography)

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: Rather, Susan | Copyright information

"Incalculable" was William Dunlap's estimation of Benjamin West's effect on American art. In his History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (1834), he lionized West as the first internationally famous, Americanborn painter and a committed teacher of American artists. (1) A century after that ambitious first chronicle of American artists, James Thomas Flexner tried to cement the identification in America's Old Masters (1939). West, he proclaimed, was...

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