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Identifier: criticismmo00chil (find matches)
Title: Art and criticism : monographs and studies
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Child, Theodore
Subjects: Art criticism
Publisher: Harper
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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e encroaching gloom of twilight, with awhite cloud of pearly mist stealing over the tranquil and wearyexpanse of verdure, gives with equal intensity an impressionof melancholy stillness, of the immensity of the valley and itsbounding hills, and of the awful fascination of the majesty ofNight, that covers the earth as it were with a shroud of silenceand of mystery. Mr. Davis has made his mark discreetly butsurely at the Salons of the last six years ; his exhibit at theChamp de Mars gives him rank among the great landscapistsof the day, as an artist singularly sensitive to the soul charmas well as to the color charm of nature. Mr. George Hitchcock revealed himself, a late-comer in art,at the Salon in 1887, when his Tulip-growing in Holland atonce made him almost famous. In the background of the pict-ure is a curtain of trees, and nestling under the trees a house,and in front of the house tulips, band after band, parallel andregular, rose, white, yellow, and red; and in the midst of this
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AMERICAN ARTISTS AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION. 117 natural carpet of flowers stands the lady of the house, in Dutchcostume, hesitating, scissors in hand, which tulip she shall cut.This lovely vision of floral color figured in the Universal Exhi-bition, together with The Annunciation (Salon of 1888), anda new picture of Dutch figures in pale and pearly landscape,called Maternity. This last is charming in aspect and mostdelicate in tone ; the landscape is exquisite ; the figures alonebetray the inevitable weakness of opsimathy, and that, too, allthe more so as they are conspicuous in the foreground. Nev-ertheless, you feel that this picture is the work of a singularlyartistic temperament. The same impression is given by TheAnnunciation, reproduced in the accompanying engraving.This picture is a harmony in green and silver. In the fore-ground is a plot of tall-growing lilies in the full glory of theirrich white bloom; a dark hedge of lilac bushes, broken hereand there by willows, separates th

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