 | Charles Henry Caffin - 1902 - 212 pages
...member of the Boston Artists' Association, he wrote to Brown, who was then in Rome, " I have concluded to see nature for myself, through the eye of no one...else, and put my trust in God, awaiting the result." It is just such simple-souled, reliant men who can possess their souls with patience and reach their... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach - 1904 - 1358 pages
...self-reliance is blended with artistic sincerity. "I have concluded to see nature for myself, through the eyes of no one else, and put my trust in God, awaiting the result." This clear and simple mood of mind well fitted him for the work which he has done in American art.... | |
 | Frederic Fairchild Sherman - 1919 - 154 pages
...George Fuller wrote from his Deerfield farm to Henry Kirke Brown, then in Italy, "I have concluded to see nature for myself, through the eye of no one else." It may have been a decision forced upon him by circumstances that denied familiarity with the visions... | |
 | Frederick Fairchild Sherman - 1919 - 282 pages
...George Fuller wrote from his Deerfield farm to Henry Kirke Brown, then in Italy, "I have concluded to see nature for myself, through the eye of no one else." It may have been a decision forced upon him by circumstances that denied familiarity with the visions... | |
 | David Bernard Dearinger, National Academy of Design (U.S.) - 2004 - 712 pages
...imagined I found many things worthy [of] my study and imitation. I have got over this, and have concluded to see nature for myself, through the eye of no one...else, and put my trust in God, awaiting the result. Fuller remained based in Boston, making portrait-painting expeditions into western Massachusetts and... | |
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Portraits occupied him principally, though he made some eif orts to break away from them and indulge himself in imaginative subjects. In 1857 he was elected an associate of the National Academy. The most notable feature of this period of his life was... 