American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 196
rs are the evidence of itsdesire to be strong. It says to its students: Avoid lightness of purpose and affectation, drawlearnedly what is before you ; — but, unfortunately, in effect it adds: When you come to color,aim to reproduce to-day those qualities which time has brought about in the works of… … :■-,.■■.., jjjlgjj i6o AMERICAN ART still darkening effects hereafter, possibly beyond all chance of recognition of the merits of theseworks by our successors. This is something that can be said independently of all judgment asto the present, of all comparison with French or the best of any other…
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