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Updated: May 17, 2025

The several masters of the outdoor school were now called up, their merits discussed and their failings hammered: Thaulow, Sorolla y Bastida, the new Spanish wonder, whose exhibition the month before had astonished and delighted Paris: the Glasgow school; Zorn, Sargent, Winslow Homer all the men of the direct, forceful school, men who swing their brushes from their spines instead of their finger-tips were slashed into and made mincemeat of or extolled to the skies.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Man In The High-Water Boots