American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 304
ts Mr. Gifford is thoroughly American, very few of his platesrepresenting foreign scenes. In the quality of frankness, to use a term first naturalized in English by Mr. Hamerton, webelieve, Mr. Gifford is not excelled by any other American etcher. He has learned to a high degreethe art of saying… … Evening. — Drawn on the Wood by R. Swain Gifford —Engraved by W. J. Linton. R. SWAIN GIFFORD, N. A. Chapter Twenty-Second. MARKED characteristic of much of the best land-scape art of our day is its simplicity and modesty,—its self-restraint, so to speak, which prevents thepainter from dealing…
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