 | Henry James - Literary Criticism - 1893 - 210 pages
...superb group of the children of Mr. Edward Boit, exhibited two years later, it offers the slightly " uncanny " spectacle of a talent which on the very...freshness of youth combined with the artistic experience, really felt and assimilated, of generations. My admiration for this deeply distinguished work is such... | |
 | Henrietta Gerwig - Painters - 1926 - 544 pages
...friends. Of the Portrait of a Young Lady, one of the most brilliant of his early works Henry James wrote : "This magnificent work offers the 'uncanny' spectacle...us only for an hour; it is the freshness of youth with the artistic experience, really felt and assimilated, of generations." As the years passed many... | |
 | Henrietta Gerwig - Painters - 1926 - 544 pages
...friends. Of the Portrait of a Young Lady, one of the most brilliant of his early works Henry James wrote: "This magnificent work offers the 'uncanny' spectacle...us only for an hour; it is the freshness of youth with the artistic experience, really felt and assimilated, of generations." As the years passed many... | |
 | Evan Charteris, Sir Evan Charteris - Painters - 1927 - 434 pages
...Mile. LP, and also known as The Lady with a Rose, of which Henry James wrote: "It offers the slightly uncanny spectacle of a talent which on the very threshold of its career has nothing more to learn. . . . The picture has this sign of productions of the first order, that its style would clearly save... | |
 | Russell Lynes - Art - 1982 - 552 pages
...command, indeed, that was one of the wonders of his day. Henry James was moved to remark on "the slightly 'uncanny' spectacle of a talent which on the very...threshold of its career has nothing more to learn." In 1878, when he was twenty-two, his painting "Oyster Gatherers at Cancale" was shown at the Salon... | |
 | Bill Brown - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 260 pages
...precocity as a temporal disjunction.8 To his eye the "astonishing" painting "ofFer[ed] the slightly 'uncanny' spectacle of a talent which on the very threshold of its career has nothing more to learn" (218). For James, then, the uncanniness of the image amounts to its manifestation of an indeterminate... | |
 | David W. Galenson - Art - 2006 - 268 pages
...passing into another manner." James was disturbed by Sargent's precocity, for "it offers the slightly 'uncanny' spectacle of a talent which on the very...threshold of its career has nothing more to learn"; James found himself "murmuring, 'Yes, but what is left?' and even wondering whether it be an advantage... | |
 | Worcester Art Museum - Art - 1917 - 542 pages
...Soon after Mr. Sargent exhibited his " Portrait of a Young Lady" in 1881, Henry James wrote of it, "This magnificent work offers the 'uncanny' spectacle...threshold of its career has nothing more to learn."* This perfect command of medium which Mr. Sargent has always possessed, this freedom, which is really... | |
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Boit, exhibited two years later, it offers the slightly "uncanny" spectacle of a talent which on the very threshold of its career has nothing more to learn. 