The American Tradition in the ArtsHarcourt, Brace & World, 1968 - 492 pages |
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Page 252
... detail is remarkable , as is the spaciousness of the distances , achieved with the subtlest pos- sible command of aerial perspective - the minute gradations of color intensity and clarity being sifted out of our vision by the atmosphere ...
... detail is remarkable , as is the spaciousness of the distances , achieved with the subtlest pos- sible command of aerial perspective - the minute gradations of color intensity and clarity being sifted out of our vision by the atmosphere ...
Page 255
... detail , never so well drawn or so skillfully subordinated as by Church , becomes insistent . He was less perceptive than Church and lacked Church's con- stantly rechargeable enthusiasm . He probably never again equaled a sketch which ...
... detail , never so well drawn or so skillfully subordinated as by Church , becomes insistent . He was less perceptive than Church and lacked Church's con- stantly rechargeable enthusiasm . He probably never again equaled a sketch which ...
Page 298
... detail , became the hit of a charity fair at the Cosmopolitan Bazaar in Chicago in 1859 and was auctioned off for $ 75 , an event which , as he remarked , “ set him to thinking . " He had spent a brief time studying art in Rome , but he ...
... detail , became the hit of a charity fair at the Cosmopolitan Bazaar in Chicago in 1859 and was auctioned off for $ 75 , an event which , as he remarked , “ set him to thinking . " He had spent a brief time studying art in Rome , but he ...
Contents
Spain and France in the New World | 4 |
The Seventeenth Century | 11 |
The Tradition and the Arts of the Puritans | 15 |
Copyright | |
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