Life, art, and letters of George Inness . theforeground. The whole picture was dark and the dull-red house of the original composition stillstood out incongruously in the new. He steppedback several paces and looked at it; then with a dashhe slapped in a mass of yellow ocher over the house,and with two or three sweeps of the brush had trans-formed the old red structure into a vibrant twilightsky. All the rest was dark and in perfect that supreme stroke he struck the accidental,and pushed the harmony almost to discord, and thefinished canvas stood before us a masterpiece. Wh
Life, art, and letters of George Inness . theforeground. The whole picture was dark and the dull-red house of the original composition stillstood out incongruously in the new. He steppedback several paces and looked at it; then with a dashhe slapped in a mass of yellow ocher over the house,and with two or three sweeps of the brush had trans-formed the old red structure into a vibrant twilightsky. All the rest was dark and in perfect that supreme stroke he struck the accidental,and pushed the harmony almost to discord, and thefinished canvas stood before us a masterpiece. While I am speaking of my fathers ideals andtheories, specially wThen they touch on what he calledthe trickery in art, I am constrained to tell the stoiyof a lady whose favorite pastime in New York washunting lions. This lady was very rich, and had con-stituted herself one of my fathers patrons just at thetime when he most needed patrons. One day when she was in the studio she becamevery enthusiastic over a canvas he was painting. She 199.
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