Mural painting in America; the Scammon lectures, delivered before the Art institute of Chicago, March, 1912, and since greatly enlarged, by Edwin Howland Blashfield; (1913)
Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 352
of nature styles, but when we cometo our own time we should be hard put to attemptsuch denomination. Probably our successors, whenfar enough removed, will recognize our character-istics, but they will not be so marked and persistentas those of the past. Nor is this because we have sharpness of… … ^ HAVE WE AS YET A STYLE? 253 a Recamier or a Beauharnais, svelte and low-crowned, just emergent from the enormous hoop ofa Marie Antoinette, and from under the huge towerof hair and ribands and feathers which (we mayquote an author of the time) made a womans faceappear to be just midway between…
Mural painting and decoration · Painting
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