American masters of painting : being brief appreciations of some American painters illustrated with examples of their work (1903)
Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918 · London : Richards · leaf 80
with a preferencefor delicate monotony of hues and soft ac-centuations, seeking by all means to spiritualizethe material. And this without loss of stateli-ness ; he has learned the dignity of the great linefrom Velasquez, and from him, too, the magister-ial use of blacks and grays. Nor with the… … JAMES A. McNeill whistler 47 ity — qualities gleaned from the Japanese. Again,in the trancelike intensity of Rossettis figures, hemay have found a quality akin to his own spiritu-ality of sentiment, just as his love of light andof delicate discrimination of values links his artto that of the…
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