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The Mentor, No. 26, American Landscape Painters




THE MENTOR

“A Wise and Faithful Guide and Friend”

    Vol. 1      No. 26




AMERICAN LANDSCAPE PAINTERS

    GEORGE INNESS

    HOMER MARTIN

    A. H. WYANT

    THOMAS MORAN

    D. W. TRYON

    F. E. CHURCH

[Illustration: American Art Annual]

_By SAMUEL ISHAM_


The beginnings of art in America were confined almost exclusively to
portrait painting. In the earliest colonial times unskilled limners
came from the mother country and made grotesque effigies of our
statesmen and divines. As the settlements developed and the amenities
of life increased better men came, and native painters were found