Excerpt from Catalogue of Mr. E. F. Milliken's Private Collection of Valuable Paintings The art of W. Gedney Bunce is identified with the city of his choice. He has long made his home in Venice, and pictures her with the quiet reserve of intimacy having a special fondness for the delicate moods of atmosphere, veiling the brilliant coloring in mystery. In this prefer ence may linger something of the influence of his early training under Paul Jean Clays, in Antwerp, whither he proceeded after some preliminary study with William Hart. Clays was the first painter of the sea to break with the old traditions of storm and furor, and to paint the normal aspects of the water, varying under different moods of light and atmosphere: the magical charm of morning, the golden brilliancy of evening twilight, and the infinite variety of tones which light produces upon waves. These ideals and the quiet sincerity of spirit which prompts them belong equally to Mr. Bunce. Eagerly assimilative and with a temperament sensitively alert, William M. Chase has few rivals among American painters in resourcefulness of technique and artistic feeling in many mediums; working in oil, water color, pastels, and etching with equal ease and certainty. To this must be added a perennial freshness of study, which has kept him continually familiar with the galleries of Europe, and the influence which he has exerted at home over a wide circle of students. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.