If American art (i.e. painting) is especially "liney" -- why would it be so?
Perhaps, because lines can be used to emphasize an action/narrative - and can
define details sharply enough that we can easily recognize each by name:
"button" or "plane tree" or "ear lobe".
This seems more like the world of shop-keeping than of aesthetics --
prompting enthusiastic responses like "isn't that still-life just like an old
letter taped to a wall?" -- or "isn't that caricature just like Barbra
Streisand?"
America has had many great painters -- but they all seem to be struggling
upstream against this current - even when they go "abstract".
The line quoted in the subject ("..taking nature as his only
instructor..")puts a nice Romantic spin on it -- but it's not especially
accurate -- i.e. American artists have usually been well schooled, and very
interested in the European artworld - including the fashion for Romanticism.
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