American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood (1879)
Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 34
has become exquisitely beautiful. It was the changein the air that made the change in the object; and especially when fin-ishing his picture does the artist bear in mind this fact. Moreover, as thespectator looks through this veil of varnish, the light is reflected and refractedjust as it is… … w 2 ^ ■CI I SANFORD R. GIFFORD. 19 and into the scene beyond. In a word, the process of the artist is the pro-cess of Nature. Mr. Griffords industry often leads him to make a dozen sketches of the samescene. The first sketch, indeed, contains the essence, but day after day he vis-its the place,…
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