Cole, Timothy, 1852-1931, Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 178
ty in landscape is afeature more difficult to produce than any other. Taken piece bypiece and examined for its separate qualities, his landscape showssome want of invention and skill. He draws sharply and minutely,he models thinly, he composes somewhat pompously. His light iswanting in scale, and… … JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 125 understand, or understanding it, he chooses to subordinate it to thegeneral effect. The surface is flat and thin in the rolHng clouds, inthe sharply defined foliage, in the brown earth. For a seventeenth-century painter, in a school remarkable for its masterful…
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