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 178
des a charming book, An Artisfs Letters fromJapan, To some the book is of more interestthan the drawings. The temple-doors and in-teriors and Buddhas of his sketches are, nodoubt, truthfully illustrative, and that is perhapstheir failing as pictures. The model was tooapparent and the artist not so… … o •2 I ^ J JOHN LA FARGE 139 and his garden bits recall the early La Fargeof the pond-lilies and the Paradise Valley. His second long trip was again with HenryAdams and this time to the South Seas. He wasgone for a year or more, from 1890 and on,and out of this trip came another engagingbook.…
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