American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 101
is better than thatof many American windows, while still far from admirable. The prevalent English fads —the affectations and the unintelligible symbolism of modern British painting — have a weak echoin the figure designs of this school, and the purely decorative part of the work is as far… … Fit it, but are used fortheir own sake; andweakly conventional-ized forms of foliage,sunflowers, etc., aredrawn upon the glassas if it were paper.The cartoon is gen-erally as interestingas the window. On the contrary,good American pot-metal, such as is nowmade, is often asheavy and as rich incolor,…
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