. The Netherland galleries : being a history of the Dutch school of painting, illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in the many galleries. ality and contem-porary expression seems to breathe the Frenchmansdictum, le moderne, il ny que ca. They areracy of the soil, indigenous, and distinctly imbuedwith the Zeitgeist, there is nothing of decadenceabout them. They are strong, virile, clear-eyed,frank and wholesome — well-nigh perfect in tech-nical mastery. They may have been inspired by their forebears,or even by their immediate predecessors of thethirties,
. The Netherland galleries : being a history of the Dutch school of painting, illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in the many galleries. ality and contem-porary expression seems to breathe the Frenchmansdictum, le moderne, il ny que ca. They areracy of the soil, indigenous, and distinctly imbuedwith the Zeitgeist, there is nothing of decadenceabout them. They are strong, virile, clear-eyed,frank and wholesome — well-nigh perfect in tech-nical mastery. They may have been inspired by their forebears,or even by their immediate predecessors of thethirties, the Barbizon men. But they did not followthis latter art movement blindly. They developedit along their own way. And this individuality hasbeen the source of their strength, where bald imi-tation would have spelt destruction. They neverattempted that scumbling, glazing, and reworkingwhich was the bane of many American painters ofa score of years ago, even yet followed by some,to produce the effects acquired by the men thatworked at Fontainebleau. Theirs is simple, indi-vidual work, done in sincerity and serious en-deavour. And yet — the Dutch School will not last for. Plate xxvii(See page 269) Ube £ Iff Century H>utcb painters 209 ever. What will follow? and carry on the artflame in historic succession? The answer comesready to pen. Many American landscape paintersare giving signs of these very qualities that havemade the Dutch School great — simple, individualwork; sincerity and serious endeavour, breathingthe flavour of their own soil with its myriad mani-festations of peculiar and characteristic who have abandoned the ill-advised effortsto manufacture tonality by heavy varnishes, glazesand raw umber, and express themselves in the purecolours of our clear atmosphere are rapidly forgingahead. Whether they show us the Connecticuthillside or pine dunes, the sun-shimmering Westernplains, or the gorgeous Colorado canon — the mar-vellous variety and the ric
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