Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) [Illustration: From the collection of Mrs. Augustus Saint-Gaudens. HOMER SAINT-GAUDENS. BY JOHN S. SARGENT.] AMERICAN MASTERS OF PAINTING BEING BRIEF APPRECIATIONS OF SOME AMERICAN PAINTERS ILLUSTRATED WITH EXAMPLES OF THEIR WORK BY CHARLES H. CAFFIN [Illustration] GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1913 COPYRIGHT, 1901, 1902, BY THE SUN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO. COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY. PUBLISHERS’ NOTE Thanks are especially due to Colonel Frank J. Hecker and Mr. Charles L. Freer of Detroit; to Mr. George A. Hearn, Mrs. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Mr. Samuel Untermeyer, Mr. William T. Evans, Mr. Daniel Guggenheim, Mr. Louis Marshall, Miss Henrietta E. Failing, Mr. Whitelaw Reid, Mr. James W. Ellsworth, Mr. J. J. Albright, Mr. N. E. Montross, the Carnegie Institute, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,--whose assistance has made possible the inclusion of the reproductions in this illustrated edition. _Published by the courtesy of The New York Sun._ CONTENTS PAGE I. George Inness 3 II. John La Farge 19 III. James A. McNeill Whistler 37 IV. John Singer Sargent 55 V. Winslow Homer 71 VI. Edwin A. Abbey 83 VII. George Fuller 101 VIII. Homer D. Martin 115 IX. George de Forest Brush 129 X. Alexander H. Wyant 143 XI. Dwight W. Tryon 155 XII. Horatio Walker 171 XIII. Gilbert Stuart 185 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE HOMER SAINT-GAUDENS. BY JOHN S. SARGENT _Frontispiece_ THE BERKSHIRE HILLS. BY GEORGE INNESS 4