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American Graphic Art (1912)

Weitenkampf, Frank · Henry Holt and Company · leaf 194

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n the workof these two men, the regard for the personality behindthe canvas. They are concerned not so much with thatdelight in the power over tools that may lead to a camera-like imitation of every brush-mark or sweep of thepalette-knife, but rather in the transposition, into thelanguage of the… … NEW SCHOOL OF WOOD-ENGRAVING 135 a broad, bold directness <>i expression, a contemplative attitude, that ^ive his translations a personal distinction.It is that which constitutes the importance of his scriesafter the Italian, Dutch, English, Spanish and Frenchmasters. Such a sympathetically…

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