American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 531
ny work of an earnest man. Beauty in tone, in harmony, we canall recognize at a glance, but I cant see where Corots Orphce has it, although the pictureis valued at ten thousand dollars. How is it? Am I mistaken? I must be. Yet my eyesare always freshened by Nature every twenty-four hours, and it… … The Challenge. Drawn by Brown. work of any landscape-painter in the world, — studies of American scenery seen with his owneyes. Why dont we worship Whittredge instead of worshipping foreigners? People like to be gagged a good deal,— perhaps that is the reason,—and the picture-dealers are the ones…
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