Life, art, and letters of George Inness . ms, where are shownbeautiful canvases by noted men of more or less ac-ademic skill, and to see them sit down and say withdelight, It makes me feel that it is real, that I amactually there in the fields and woods. It is justthat that is the charm of Inness. To me Turner isgrand, dramatic, beautiful in tone and color, fantastic,and unreal. Corot is wonderful in tonal quality andluminous enamel in his skies, wrhich, with the delicatedrawing of graceful forms, give his pictures a greatcharm. All is very beautiful, but all is Corot, andto me it seems as tho
Life, art, and letters of George Inness . ms, where are shownbeautiful canvases by noted men of more or less ac-ademic skill, and to see them sit down and say withdelight, It makes me feel that it is real, that I amactually there in the fields and woods. It is justthat that is the charm of Inness. To me Turner isgrand, dramatic, beautiful in tone and color, fantastic,and unreal. Corot is wonderful in tonal quality andluminous enamel in his skies, wrhich, with the delicatedrawing of graceful forms, give his pictures a greatcharm. All is very beautiful, but all is Corot, andto me it seems as though he had invented somethingbeautiful, or, if not invented, had discovered one phaseof nature and was there content to stop. But withGeorge Inness I feel the very breath of nature. Ifeel as though I were actually with him in the pictureitself. Some artists, to express their appreciation of awork of art, use queer expressions. Its naive,Its amusing, It has things in it. I once wentto the studio of an artist friend and told him that I 262. THE ART OF GEORGE should like to buy one of his pictures. He showedme tWO that 1 liked equally well. One represented a large boat, the other a landscape. I said I foundit hard to choose which one I wanted. lie told mehe would choose the boat because it looked so muchlike a Persian rug. I replied: I agree with you; but as I have a Persian rug,I will take the other. Well, what is art for? Tobe amusing, to have things in it, or to expresssome emotion wrought in one by nature? Amus-ing, Naive, Things do not express the picturesof George Inness. He had no tricks. His strivingwas to produce something grand, big, beautiful, true. And why does not the buying public get in touchwith the artist, and read him and learn from him theobject of art, the way to look at pictures, the way tolearn to feel, and to get out of nature all that she has totell us? A man who is interesting himself in paintingsshould go among the painters, visit their studios, ge
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