![](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/yhst-30479181885695/the-boston-painters-1900-1930-by-r-h-ives-gammell-63.jpg) ![The Boston Painters, 1900-1930, by R. H. Ives Gammell](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/yhst-30479181885695/the-boston-painters-1900-1930-by-r-h-ives-gammell-64.jpg)
Turning their backs on modernism, the Boston-based painters covered in this artfully produced album prized a cult of beauty built on exacting craftsmanship and direct observation of nature. Notables included Joseph De Camp, who claimed that Whistler never mastered chiaroscuro; impressionist William Paxton; Edmund Tarbell, chronicler of leisure-class pursuits and New England scenery; Frederic Vinton, who went to Madrid to copy oils by Velasquez; and Frank Benson, known for his plein air landscapes. All but forgotten today, the Boston School artists deserve a better fate, argues Gammell, himself a painter of allegories as well as an erstwhile friend and colleague of these artists.
|