Art in America; a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 80
-color paintings have scarcely been surpassed, as, forexample, the noble representations of the bleak, snow-like, cedar-tufteddunes along the Jersey shore. The extraordinary variety of the effects of American landscape isagain shown by the gorgeousness of our autumnal foliage. It has beenobjected… … THE PARSONAGE. [a. F. BELLOWS.] forest in the dreamy days of the Indian summer, than in undertakingto paint the splendor of many-colored drapery in an Oriental crowd,which is considered a legitimate subject for the artist who has a cor- 76 ART IN AMERICA. rect eve for color. It is not in the…
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