Excerpt from Catalogue of Paintings by Frederick Ballard Williams, Isabelle Hollister Tuttle, George Alfred Williams, and a Group of Seven American Artists: December, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty Two<br><br>Frederick Ballard Williams was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1871. He studied at the Cooper Union and National Academy of Design schools. Member: National Academy of Design, 1909, New York Watercolor Club, Lotus Club, Salmagundi Club; National Art Club; New York Society of Painters; Awards Bronze medal, pan-american Exposition, Inness Prize, Salma gundi Club, 1898, Isidor gold medal, National Academy of Design, 1909, President, Salmagundi Club, 1914 to 1919, President, Mont clair Art Association. He is represented in the permanent col lections of the National Museum, Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the public galleries of Buffalo, Brooklyn, Muskegon, St. Louis, Dallas, New Haven and New Britain.<br><br>The present collection 18 the result of a summer of work along the old Camino Del Real, in California, from San Diego to the Golden Gate and back into the high Sierras. It Is reminiscent of the School of the French Romanticists, of Fragonard, Watteau, Diaz and Monticelli.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.