Text Appearing Before Image: . *tiwiK?*S* THE BOY LINCOLN BY EASTMAN JOHNSON Text Appearing After Image: PORTRAIT OF MR. JOHN D. ROCKKFELLER BY EASTMAN JOHNSON Eastman Johnson outlived their freshness of judgment and Bareness ofeye. Many of his contemporaries—once on thetop wave of success^have been forgotten, and iftheir names perchance are mentioned, they recallto us nothing but the old Academy days offorty or fifty years ago. Eastman Johnson was apower in our art life to the very last. His self-portrait, painted in 1899, is technically superior toanything executed by him during the first fiftyyears of his life. And although he typifies bestthe period of the sixties and seventies, the yearsprevious to the general exodus of young Americanpainters to Munich and Paris, he managed to holdhis own even at a time when Chase, Weir, Shirlaw,Eakins, became the brilliant exponents of a new,more technically perfect style of painting. Hiscareer was one of continual progress ; step by stephe advanced towards greater freedom of expression.Like Hunt, Fuller and Inness, he remained astudent all his lif
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