. What pictures to see in America. ) our sensation is that produced by har-mony. The perfectly balanced cool and warmtones of the young womans costume are avital part of the soft rich light that caressesthe whole. Then, too, the composition is ex-ceedingly attractive artistically. It might bea quiet corner in some summer hotel; the youngwoman, sufficient unto herself, is in no hurry;the women at their embroidery are self-cen-tered—just a bit of conventional life of singu-lar charm under the refining influence of brush. If only his people had a littlemore of the active alert e
. What pictures to see in America. ) our sensation is that produced by har-mony. The perfectly balanced cool and warmtones of the young womans costume are avital part of the soft rich light that caressesthe whole. Then, too, the composition is ex-ceedingly attractive artistically. It might bea quiet corner in some summer hotel; the youngwoman, sufficient unto herself, is in no hurry;the women at their embroidery are self-cen-tered—just a bit of conventional life of singu-lar charm under the refining influence of brush. If only his people had a littlemore of the active alert element, so character-istic of our time, possibly their refinementand sincerity would strike a deeper chordin the heart of picture lovers. As it is, welove them and go away feeling that it was goodfor us to have seen them (see Ten AmericanPainters, page 186). The painting of the Public Entry of Christinto Jerusalem (Fig. 207), by Benjamin Rob-ert Haydon (1786-1846), not only has a curi-ous history but it represents a special ten-. o -^ 2 Ci< o CI
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