. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. SNOW MOUNTAINS IN THE ROLIN PANEL HUBERT AND JOHN VAN EYCK T HE REAL VAN EYCKS *BY C. LEWIS HLND This remarkable book reaches me inNew York on one of those mornings ofbrilliant sunshine and tingling air that make theEnglishman ashamed of the winter climate of fog-damp London. It is the right book to read on sucha radiant morning when Nature discloses her allur-ing vestures to drowsy eyes; for was not JohnVan Eyck the father of landscape painting ? Was henot the first to place an open window in a pictureand flood the vista
. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. SNOW MOUNTAINS IN THE ROLIN PANEL HUBERT AND JOHN VAN EYCK T HE REAL VAN EYCKS *BY C. LEWIS HLND This remarkable book reaches me inNew York on one of those mornings ofbrilliant sunshine and tingling air that make theEnglishman ashamed of the winter climate of fog-damp London. It is the right book to read on sucha radiant morning when Nature discloses her allur-ing vestures to drowsy eyes; for was not JohnVan Eyck the father of landscape painting ? Was henot the first to place an open window in a pictureand flood the vista with those visions of unshoredimmensity which, in later centuries, Claude andTurner forced the larger world, which was then be-ginning to appreciate landscape in art, to love andvalue. On one of the pages of Mr. Weales bookI find a landscape that makes me long to be out andaway from this cramped and crowded ManhattanIsland to where the lordly Hudson winds by moun-tain and forest, or even on Staten Island across thebay where you may find glades that—well! thatmight
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