With brush and pen : suggestions for some of the newer phases of public school art instruction (1897)
Hall, James, 1869-1917 · New York : The J. C. Witter Company · leaf 50
ninth grade class of intel-ligent children, some questions about the effect of alandscape at twilight. Answers to so simple a ques-tion as which appears darker, the sky or the treesand buildings against it? showed how little had beenobserved. Few had felt or thought of the beauty thatcomes over the… … told them how simple the values were, and tried tomake them feel something of the charm and mysteryof the hour. Then they were asked to close their eyes, and I de-scribed one or two scenes, a field, a line of trees, achurch spire, or a meadow, and a pool of water reflect-ing the light of the sky.…
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