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From the collection of Mrs. Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

HOMER SAINT-GAUDENS.

By John S. Sargent.

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AMERICAN MASTERS OF
PAINTING

BEING

BRIEF APPRECIATIONS OF SOME
AMERICAN PAINTERS

ILLUSTRATED WITH EXAMPLES OF
THEIR WORK

BY

CHARLES H. CAFFIN



Garden City       New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1913
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Copyright, 1901, 1902, by
THE SUN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO.

Copyright, 1902, by
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY.
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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. JamesW. Ellsworth, Mr. J. J. Albright, Mr. N. E. Montross, the CarnegieInstitute, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,—whose assistance hasmade possible the inclusion of the reproductions in this illustratededition.{vi}

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Published by the courtesy of The New York Sun.

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