American painting and its tradition, as represented by Inness, Wyant, Martin, Homer, La Farge, Wistler, Chase, Alexander, Sargent (1919)
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 · Freeport, N. Y., Books for Libraries Press · leaf 140
thesea, wonderful view-points of a great element.In that sense they are epic, tremendous charac-terizations, all-powerful statements that startleand command. You cannot get away from them.They fascinate, and yet are not attractive inthe sense that you would like to have one ofthem in your… … ^ s ^ - c5 .5 o WINSLOW HOMER 109 put everything else out of key, make a blackspot on the wall, and continually irritate youwith its harshness of method. From his youthupward Homer seems to have had a scorn forthe decorative. Charm either in his personalityor his art seems to have been a gift…
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