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Effect [[strikethrough]] democratic, having low membership fees and distributing its work of art by lottery. The Bulletin continued:
"His figures have . . . . vitality[[underlined]] about them. They look out of their eyes. They stand upon their legs. They are shrewd or merry or grave or quizzical. They are not merely empty ghosts of figures -- mere pictures of jackets and trowsers, with masks attached to them."

Mount, the first important name among American genre painters, had been at work for a number of years; and already [[strikethrough, changed to was rediscovered in 1942 by John I.H. Baw]] In 1834 when he [[crossed out, changed to mount]] was but 27 years old, Dunlap had praised him, writing
"This young artist . . . . Has displayed uncommon talent, both in fancy pictures or compositions of figures, generally rustic and comic, and at the same time in portrait painting." 
Dunlap also [[strikethrough]] quotes Allston as saying that Mount
". . . . showed great power of expression. He has, too, a firm, decided pencil and seems to have a good notion

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[[left margin]]Farmers nooning 1836[[/left margin]]

[[left margin]]Mount's Barn (Sketch)[[/left margin]]