J.C. Van Dyke

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J.C. Van Dyke


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New Brunswick, New Jersey, The United States

John Charles Van Dyke (1856–1932) was an American art historian and critic. He was born at New Brunswick, New Jersey, studied at Columbia, and for many years in Europe. He was admitted to the New York State Bar Association in 1877, but never practiced law.

In 1878, Van Dyke was appointed the librarian of the Gardner Sage Library at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and in 1891 as a professor of art history at Rutgers College (now Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey). With his appointment, the Rutgers president's residence was converted to classroom and studio space for the college's Department of Fine Arts. He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1908.

Van Dyke wrote a series of critical guide books: New
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Average rating: 3.95 · 417 ratings · 30 reviews · 74 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Desert

3.97 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1976 — 145 editions
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A Text-Book of the History ...

3.52 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2006 — 176 editions
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Nature for Its Own Sake: Fi...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1898 — 82 editions
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How to Judge of a Picture (...

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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1889 — 54 editions
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The Meadows

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1926 — 4 editions
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The Meaning of Pictures: Si...

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 49 editions
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Art for Art's Sake

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1894 — 72 editions
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The opal sea

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 27 editions
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London; critical notes on t...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 34 editions
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The Raritan: Notes on a Riv...

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“To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic sense- the power to enjoy through the eye, and the ear, and the imagination- is just as important a factor in the scheme of human happiness as the corporeal sense of eating and drinking; but there has never been a time when the world would admit it.”
John Van Dyke

“Light and air — what means wherewith to conjure up illusions and deceive the senses!”
John C. Van Dyke, The Desert

“The story of a man's life, especially when it is told by the man himself, should not be interrupted by the hecklings of an editor.”
John C. Van Dyke, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: With The Gospel of Wealth

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