William TRichards; a brief outline of his life and art . RICHARDS autumn and winter. For some reason Mr. Richardswas curious about Mt. Tacoma, and in 1885 he took atrip to the Pacific coast to see it. If two or three largepaintings of the mountain are excepted, no visible re-sults to his art seem to have followed, as he went onin his accustomed pathways, holding his homes intactin Chester Valley and Conanicut until March, 1890,when he bought a cosy, homely house at an angle ofone of those pretty Newport streets that go nowherebut to your own front door. This he alternated with Gray Cliff and w
William TRichards; a brief outline of his life and art . RICHARDS autumn and winter. For some reason Mr. Richardswas curious about Mt. Tacoma, and in 1885 he took atrip to the Pacific coast to see it. If two or three largepaintings of the mountain are excepted, no visible re-sults to his art seem to have followed, as he went onin his accustomed pathways, holding his homes intactin Chester Valley and Conanicut until March, 1890,when he bought a cosy, homely house at an angle ofone of those pretty Newport streets that go nowherebut to your own front door. This he alternated with Gray Cliff and with seasons in Europe between 1885and 1890. He would disappear for a time to come backladen with canvases and a smiling and genial vitalitywhich made his welcome glad and warm. He rarelyspoke of his absence, sometimes to point an anecdoteor explain a picture; and I remember, once, how hebrought back a series of bewitching water-colors trel-lised all over with roses, of a country house in England and its lovely court-yard, where he had been staying. 40. CATHEDRAL ROCKS, ACHILL ISLAND, WEST COAST OF IRELAND r^-oNv*,riON». MASTERPIECES OF THE SEA He was usually reticent until animated by some lurkingmemory or the wish to make plain a conviction. Among the summer journeys there were two ratheradventurous ones with his wife, the first to the wild west-ern coast of Ireland, when they drove over four hundredmiles in jaunting cars, and another to the extreme northof Scotland, including the Orkney and the Shetland Is-lands. He found many subjects and much inspirationin both places. During the Scotch trip they journeyedfor a while with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie. Then, the winters spent in the Channel Islands, es-pecially on Guernsey, were also full of fruitful resultsin his art, but he always came back to Newport with afeeling of happiness in his own home which no foreignexcitements or Reiselust ever dispelled. But, in 1899, the tranquil flow of Mr. Richards idealfamily life at Newpo
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