American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 240
fferent at different times. One day we go out in themorning, and looking up and down the street, take no note of the sight. We are not im-pressed. Another day there is a slight change in the density, or the clarity of the atmosphere,and lo! what before was a commonplace view has become exquisitely… … SUNSET IN THE ADIRONDACK^. FROM A PAINTING BY SANFORD R. GIFFORD. 710 AMERICAN ART veil of varnish, the light is reflected and refracted just as it is through the atmosphere, —reflections and refractions which though unseen, are nevertheless felt. The surface of thepicture, therefore, ceases to be…
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