A PAINTERS PROGRESS BOOKS BY WILL H. LOW PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS A Painters Progress. Illustrated . net 1,50 A Chronicle of Friendships. Illus trated net 3.00 A PAINTE R S P ROGRESS rv tN aeiNG A PARTIAL SURVESJ lyONG THE PATHWAY OF ART IN AMERf6t ND EUROPE - WITH SUNDRY EXAMPLES AND PRECEPTS CULLED FROM PERSONAL ENCOUNTER WITH EXISTING CONDITIONS AND REFERENCE TO THE CAREERS OF MANY ARTISTS BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN SIX DISCOURSES FORMING THE FIFTH ANNUAL SERIES OF THE SCAMMON LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, APRIL, 1910, BY WILL H. LOW iJ I1NB SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS S-8LBCTBD BY TUB AUTHOR CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS YORK MCMX Copyright, 1910, by Charles Scribws Sons Published October, 1910 To MAKY FAIRCHILD LOW This is the life we have chosen, iaeU, the choice was mad t but I should make it again NOTE THE papers herewith printed formed the fifth of the series of lectures given under the Scam mon Foundation before the students and mem bers of the Art Institute of Chicago. By bequest of Mrs, Maria Sheldon Scammon, the Scammon Lectures were established on a permanent basis in 1901 in memory of Mr. John Young Scam mon, a former prominent citizen of Chicago. The will prescribes that these lectures shall be on the history, theory, and practice of the fine arts meaning thereby, the graphic and plastic arts, by persons of distinction or authority on the subject of which they lecture. As here presented, these lectures have been re vised as little as is consistent with the demands of formal publication, from a desire to retain as nearly as possible their character of familiar talks by an elder to a group of younger artists. W. H. L. La. wrea. C9 Park, Bronxrille, September, 1910.