American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 151
an power. The most masterlymountain painting in the world is nothing but a well-selected abstract and abridgment, choosingthe most expressive lines, but not rendering one line out of ten. And in those lines that wedo render, how are we to approach the ineffable tenderness and subtlety of Nature?… … < $» :sWk£
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