American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 310
nded to be an attempt at realization.Mr. Gifford does not make such an attempt. He knows that it would be in the first placeuseless, because Art never can compete with Nature, but always fails when trying to do so;and in the second place foolish, because Art has a sphere of her own, in which she… … m o Ro 3Iz; t—I pamo 2 t—I <Oh o AMERICAN ART 255 Mr. Gifford puts himself in his pictures. His landscapes are something more than merescenes in Nature. They are Nature, to be sure, but Nature as he views her, and Naturewith a revelation of his own feelings toward her. The impress of the man is…
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