American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 304
osition. Nor isNature alone held to be sufficient. Vast edifices — either in the splendor of their first beauty, oras ruins, invested with the poetry of decay — are introduced to add emphasis to the classicalcharacter of the landscape itself. All this was thought to be necessary to an artistic… … A Windy Day at Biskra. Drawn on the Wood by R. Swain Gifford. Engraved by John P. Davis. 242 AMERICAN ART I cite these particulars, not, at present,for the purpose of basing upon them anopinion as to the merits or demerits ofthis school of landscape painting, butsimply to enforce the contrast which…
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