Excerpt from The House Beautiful, Vol. 11

Of Indian life; and the modest canvas showing a family group might have escaped much notice, or been regarded as an unimportant turn ing aside from the main issue of his career, had it not been of an order that eclipsed his former eflorts. Preconceived ideas of the scope of Mr. Brush's talents were quite swept away; it was evident that he had found a higher inspiration, which had brought his abilities to a finer development. HE impression made then of rare sincerity and directness, of a remarkable mingling of the graces of physical and intellectual beauty, of distinguished character, and of an aesthetic ensemble, managed with a most charming tech nique - all these qualities meeting to express a purpose wholly sweet and human - has been deepened by the series of paintings which have been the labor of the ensuing years. As each one has appeared, it has been the original and entirely unhampered expression of a highly artistic nature which has realized a certain theme in a most poetic and lovely aspect. The stamp of a strong individu ality creates an attraction, and commands admiration, and Mr. Brush is to-day a very distinguished figure in the art of our country. He echoes the teaching of no modern master or school; a skilful draftsman, a clever painter, he uses his facility but as a means, not an end; and works as seems best to carry out his ideas, know ing no criticism save that of his own consciousness, no standards save those which his instincts tell him are the best. HE feeling by which these pictures are animated links them with an earlier period, when the most celebrated painters and sculptors of our era loved to draw or model the images of the Virgin Mother and her Divine Child.

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