American painting and its tradition : as represented by Inness, Wyant, Martin, Homer, La Farge, Whistler, Chase, Alexander, Sargent (1919)
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 174
res of theapostles and the holy women in the lower spaceand their perpendicular lines paralleled theuprights of the frame; at the top he placed anoval of angels hovering about the risen Christ,and, again, the rounded lines of the angel grouprepeated the curves of the gilded arch. There was no great… … :The Muse, by John La Farge. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. JOHN LA FARGE 135 worked out the best way of filling that up-right-and-arched space, and La Farge followedthe tradition because he recognized its suffi-ciency. But when all that is said it should beadded that his Ascension is no close…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters · Painting, American
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