American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 109
ll screen or window-light with painted decoration in the Englishstyle is to spoil good or middling glass, andto throw away work. Where the highestdecorative results are aimed at, or a certaindegree of realism is required, as in the Harvard ■window, and where the texture of the glasscannot, on… … Fig. =.— Reduced Working Drawing of a Window in Pure Mosaic.By John La Farge. AMERICAN ART 607 light and color in the portions left uncovered. But in the case just mentioned, — in the case ofsmall work which may be examined part by part, — nothing can make up for the loss of colorand the hiding of…
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