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 172
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…
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