were unable from preconviction to see lilue in na-ture shadows, I think it well to say that, during thefifteen years which have since elapsed, I have metwith innumerable instances of people of similarcaliber, several of them personal friends, to whom ithad never occurred that shadows on snow, or… … Courtesy oj The Ot-hme GitUt-riesTHE PRELUDE of the blue color. Realizing, however, tluit tiieblue on the white snow seemed to be so direct look-ing, so unrelated a color fact, that no clue could beobtained by studying over it I began a series ofobser\ations on the conditions attending the…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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