Show H I UNAPPRECIATED GENIUS rile lives of these three great paint em nOlUuu all Millet and Troyon like that of Corot says rT Sllllmon In the l April Atlantic show how completely com-pletely thV French public so proud of its intelligence of art Ignored l the best dualities of it till outsiders lioinled to thorn Troyon told me that for the first ten years of his career he never sold a plrliire but lived by 1 painting orS or-S vrt the prosporily of Millet came f from the patronage of American collectors col-lectors led by the appreciation of a JSoston painter I William Hunt I well remember his famous Sower on Iho highest line In the Salon so completely I skied that only one who looked for a Millet was likely to see It while Ilous scau at the time I speak of wan glad to accept the smallest commission and hold mostly to American collectors Nor IB It otherwise with the Kousscaus Millets Mil-lets and Troyons of today the public taste and the banal criticism of a journalism jour-nalism at best the late echo of the rare wise man discover Genius only i when It has ceased to have the quality of the new and unforeseen r |