Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · Boston : D. Lothrop & Co. · leaf 35
re, in trying to be tooliteral; so that the great attention given to thedetails has excited wonder rather than stimulatedthe imagination, and has marred the impression ofgeneral effect which should be the chief idea in awork of art. For the materials an artist has at hiscommand are, at best, so… … !. {Frompainting hy S. R. Gifford.) papers,- are painting in a broader style. Mr. Ken-sett, although in most respects belonging to the oldschool of American landscape art, treated his sub-jects more broadly than many, and the same may besaid of Mr. Sandford R. Gifford. The main effect inhis works…
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