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Previously Undocumented Art Criticism By Walt Whitman, Wendy J. Katz
Previously Undocumented Art Criticism By Walt Whitman, Wendy J. Katz
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity
Whitman’s “Letters from a Travelllling Bachelor,” written for the New York Sunday Dispatch (October 14, 1849, through January 6, 1850) are well known, as is his practice of contributing news about Brooklyn and Brooklyn artists to the Dispatch as well as to other newspapers like the Evening Post.1 But his extended description of a painting by Jesse Talbot, Encampment of the Caravan, in the Evening Post (“Encampment of the Caravan,” April 29, 1851; p. 1), and his critique of the National Academy of Design annual exhibition in the Dispatch of the following year (“An Hour at the Academy of Design,” …