Art in America : a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 194
nal nature, and intense reflection upon the philosophicalprinciples of art, gradually led him to a broader style and a more free ex-pression of the truths of nature, dealing with masses rather than with de-tails, and handling his subjects — especially atmospheric effects — with adaring and an… … MOONLIRHT.—[JOHN J. ENNEKING.] and sometimes a conflict of styles, as when he dashes off a composition,in two or three sittings, that is full of fire and suggestion; and then, per-haps with a relic of his first method still lingering in his memory like ahabit, goes over it again, and smooths away…
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