JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
Reading edition
WITH TEN ILLUSTRATIONS
NICHOLAS L. BROWN
NEW YORK
MCMXXI
Self-portrait of Gauguin.
TO
M.T.H.S.
WHO HELPED ME WITH
ADVICE AND CRITICISM
"Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are the roads of genius."
WILLIAM BLAKE.
CONTENTS
PART I: THE FORMATION 1849-1885 PART II: THE STRUGGLE WITH IMPRESSIONISM 1885-1889 PART III: THE SCHOOL OF PONT-AVEN 1889-1891 PART IV: THE RETURN TO SAVAGERY 1891-1895 PART V: THE FIGHT AGAINST CIVILIZATION 1895-1903 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS SELF-PORTRAIT OF GAUGUIN, Frontispiece PORTRAIT OF GAUGUIN'S MOTHER THE PAINTER SCHUFFENECKER AND HIS FAMILY STRUGGLE OF JACOB WITH THE ANGEL THE IDOL TAHITIAN WOMEN HINA MARURU (FEAST TO HINA) THE OLD SPIRIT CALVARY MATAMUA (OLDEN DAYS)