American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 240
erns the impression, determining whetherthe impression shall be gay or grave, lively or severe; so much so, indeed, that landscape-painting may be called (what we have already said Mr. Gifford calls it) air-painting. Dif-ferent conditions of the air produce different impressions upon the mind,… … a oi o m <1 L) w I—1 55 t> rt 2; r—1 H £ 708 AMERICAN ART misses everything. Now, the color of the sky at the horizon is the key-note of the color of theair. Mr. Gifford, therefore, begins with the horizon. When the long day is finished, and thepicture is produced, the work of criticism, of…
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