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 54
Only an Inness in the presence of Niagara couldhave thrown emphasis upon so ethereal a phaseas its mists and color. They made the impressionand he responded to it. Every feature of landscape had its peculiarsentiment to him. He said so many times andwith no uncertain voice: Rivers, streams, the… … GEORGE INNESS 35 ing human sentiment. But this is a great mis-take. The civilized landscape peculiarly can; andtherefore I love it more and think it moreworthy of reproduction than that which issavage and untamed. It is more significant. That last statement of his about the civilizedlandscape is…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters · Painting, American
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