Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent (1908)
Phythian, John Ernest, 1858- · London, G. Richards · leaf 99
e sang as he painted, he anticipated Whistler in makingcomparisons between the two arts, was regularly to be seenat concerts, and himself played the violin. Tradition couldnot for ever blind him to the visible music of nature, andwhen at last he saw it, the rest of his life was passed in… … THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND THEIR ALLIES 69 not the insistently obvious splendour of autumn, but thetranquil harmonies of spring and summer—in brief, all thatwas lyrical in nature found a response in him. He came to know well, or, better, to feel deeply howlarge a share the atmosphere had in the playing…
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