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Identifier: americanartamer01mont (find matches)
Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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A Pastoral.From a Pen-and-Ink Drawing by R. Swain Gifford. by brightness and sunshine, marks the upper point of the scale; and the dramatic element isapproached in the sombre darkness of pictures like the Evening, reproduced in the wood-cut atthe head of this article. Mr. Gifford has been censured for thus circumscribing the exercise ofhis talent, and one feels inclined to join in the wish that he might more frequently strike alivelier chord. But there .is no denying that he has been most successful in those of his paint-ings which are quiet in color and subdued in tone; and his efforts in that direction, aside fromtheir own intrinsic merits, have an extraneous value as silent but effective protests against theaffectation of the same qualities in less skilful hands. It is but too true that in such handstone often degenerates into lack of light, sobriety of color into blackness, and breadth intoformlessness. Mr. Giffords pictures are always rich in color, well defined in form, and bril

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  • bookyear:1889
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Montgomery__Walter
  • booksubject:Art
  • booksubject:Artists
  • bookpublisher:Boston__E_W__Walker___co
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:310
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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