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British water-colour painting and painters of to-day (1920)

Littlejohns, John, 1874- · Toronto, Pitman · leaf 158

An illustration from British water-colour painting and painters of to-day, 1920, leaf 158
HENRY RUSHBURY, A.R.A., R.W.S., R.E. are rendered exactly as they appeared. So he has dehberatelyvaried the tones to suit his pictorial purposes. The buildingsin shadow could not have had reflected lights half as pale as hehas indicated; and the figures in the shadow of the nearest … Fig. II buildings could not have appeared as light as those in sunlight.But if he had not exaggerated he would not have succeeded.This is not a doubtful procedure: it is merely a freer use ofmethod employed in nearly every picture, viz. emphasis andreticence in accordance with pictorial needs. In…

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