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DOI Artikel:Flint, Ralph: Costigan, American pastoralist
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19984#0167
Volume
LXXX
Number1
334
Marck 1925
GOSTIC^AN, "American ^astoualist
rhe question of pic- A painter who has made his deeply with nature until the
torial material often owa Barbizon and Living mind becomes "divinely
prove§ to be a vexa- fhere content, has developed ben* t0 meditation"
tious issue for the man who unusual fechniaue Costigan stands a
lives by his brush. The an unusual teenntque unique ggure among con_
search for proper subject RALPH FLINT temporary American paint-
matter may easily involve _ ers, in the poignant pastor-
him in a nomadic existence until he discovers ality of his art and imthe manner of pigmentation
some endroit where he can settle down to his which he employs. While there are Iandscapists
quarrying of form and color without let or hin- without number in every section of the United
drance. Like those seekers for beauty who made States sincerely bent to their various pictorial
the Fontainebleau forest famous by sojourning in tasks, there probably is none dwelling in greater
it and painting its depths, John E. Costigan has rapport with natural beauty than he. Like some
found his setting and subject matter within the Attic shepherd wandering quietly with his charges
limits of his own wooded acres in Orangeburg, through gentle copses and meadows and sitting
New York. There, with his little family, he leads happily beside melodious streams through un-
a truly pastoral exist- "peeling apples" by john e. costigan counted hours, uncon-
ence among his sheep Courtesy ojthe Babcock Galleries conscious, beyond the
and goats and paint- P~ , '*HjH9HflHHHMM bare facts, that
pots.
a
world of contentious
After a preliminary ■jT^i ... _ jJfflSjS^ interests is shuttling
wandering among the | through time and
schools and bazaars of ^fe sPace just over the
communing'ever more co^ s^ie
march 1925
Jour twenty-seven
LXXX
Number1
334
Marck 1925
GOSTIC^AN, "American ^astoualist
rhe question of pic- A painter who has made his deeply with nature until the
torial material often owa Barbizon and Living mind becomes "divinely
prove§ to be a vexa- fhere content, has developed ben* t0 meditation"
tious issue for the man who unusual fechniaue Costigan stands a
lives by his brush. The an unusual teenntque unique ggure among con_
search for proper subject RALPH FLINT temporary American paint-
matter may easily involve _ ers, in the poignant pastor-
him in a nomadic existence until he discovers ality of his art and imthe manner of pigmentation
some endroit where he can settle down to his which he employs. While there are Iandscapists
quarrying of form and color without let or hin- without number in every section of the United
drance. Like those seekers for beauty who made States sincerely bent to their various pictorial
the Fontainebleau forest famous by sojourning in tasks, there probably is none dwelling in greater
it and painting its depths, John E. Costigan has rapport with natural beauty than he. Like some
found his setting and subject matter within the Attic shepherd wandering quietly with his charges
limits of his own wooded acres in Orangeburg, through gentle copses and meadows and sitting
New York. There, with his little family, he leads happily beside melodious streams through un-
a truly pastoral exist- "peeling apples" by john e. costigan counted hours, uncon-
ence among his sheep Courtesy ojthe Babcock Galleries conscious, beyond the
and goats and paint- P~ , '*HjH9HflHHHMM bare facts, that
pots.
a
world of contentious
After a preliminary ■jT^i ... _ jJfflSjS^ interests is shuttling
wandering among the | through time and
schools and bazaars of ^fe sPace just over the
communing'ever more co^ s^ie
march 1925
Jour twenty-seven