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Frank Duveneck, An Appreciation

During the late nineties John Sargent said at a banquet in London, "The finest talent of the brush of this (the nineteenth) century is Frank Duveneck's." This tribute excepted no country or school.

Nearly twenty years have elapsed since this recognition of Duveneck's prowess was made. It is of more than common interest therefore that to-day similar verdicts are being rendered, and that Duveneck, whose name has added to Cincinnati's fame as an art center, is receiving proper recognition from his countrymen at home.

A day or two ago at a banquet at the Panama-Pacific exposition, where Duveneck has been honored by the allotment of a special exhibit, he was mentioned as being one of the four really great artists of the United States. The others were Weir, Chase and Tarbell.

Duveneck is a master in his inspired and subtle world of the brush. As a teacher, his illuminating insight, his sympathy, his patient watchfulness, and his intuition have guided many a student from obscurity into brilliant success. Such painters as Alexander, DeCamp, Twachtman, Rolshoven, and many others owed to Duveneck the shaping of their careers.

Many Cincinnatians well remember when Frank Duveneck, as a young man, went to Munich. There he laid the foundations for that "finest talent of the brush" which enabled his eye to see and his hand to execute. His native characteristics of simplicity, quiet dignity and freedom from display have been the rocks on which his great success has been built. The qualities which make a painter and a painting take high rank are subtle and impossible of description, but those gifted with vision into the cloistered world of the artist need no aid. And it is only giving Duveneck his due as an artist to say that hundreds in America and abroad are thus able to see him as he is. 

The bequest which Duveneck recently made to the Cincinnati Museum of Art is almost unprecedented. It comprises almost his whole life work. He has guarded his treasures jealously with this one end in view. Great museums in Europe have sought his works in vain, with the result that his native city has come into possession of a comprehensive collection. The influence of this gift upon American art can not be estimated, nor the gratitude of artistic Cincinnati properly expressed.