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Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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r the sails of the ships and barges make as much figure inthe composition as the houses themselves. But this, as every traveller knows, forms one ofthe charms of Holland. It affects one strangely, at first, to walk over great stretches ofmeadow on a causeway, with slender do-nothing trees on either hand, as here in Tina Blaus Eoad near Amsterdam, or as in the famous picture by Hobbema in the National Galleryin London, which this faintly recalls, and to see suddenly appearing above the rushes at ones ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 29) side, the sail of a boat coming straight toward you; then to see it dip, and after a minute,come up again on the other side of the causeway. And all this in silence, perhaps no soundof a human voice, for in these wide jDlains, intersected by hundreds of canals, the vision ex-tends so far that no signs of warning are needed as in Venice—that Southern Amsterdam—and even ia the city itself, where the great canals bordered by the several Grachts or avenues,
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ROAD NEAR AMSTERDAM. FROM THE PICTURE BY TINA BLAU. are busy all day with shipping, we were struck by the absence of noise and shouting. Onehears more of this in the down-town steets of New York in an afternoon, than he will in asummer of Holland. Achenbach may have been less inspired in this picture by the reality asseen by himself, than by reminiscences of Ruysdael and Hobbema, but he has given the trueexpression to his subject; we knoAv this heavy sky, with its low-lying clouds broken here andthere with patches of blue; the screaming gulls, the sails of the lumbering coasters bagging 292 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. with the wind that rushes before the rain from the Zuyder Zee; the wisps of trees—theymust needs be web-footed to keep their hold in this amphibious shore!—tossed and tumbledby the gusts that bear to the ground the smoke from the pot-house shanty by the water-side,or carry it off like a streamer from the chimney of the tower-like house. But, if the weatherbe dull, w

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