American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 466
umanlife, saturated, so to speak, with the influences of the generations of mortals who have in turn sub- AMERICAN ART 371 sisted on the soil and been laid beneath it. Our mother country is full of such places, and, as JohnBurroughs writes in his paper on Mellow England, Nature here has been so… … Does Mother want Me? Drawn by Peirce. willing and tractable, that she has taken on something of his image, and seems to radiate his pres-ence. Peirce portrays such spots so admirably that one cannot quarrel with him, as we feel justifiedin doing with many American artists, for being blind to the…
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