. Landscape and figure painters of America. ery of the moonlitTower of Silence, that mighty rock in the wilder-ness standing alone like a monument to a vanishedrace on the edge of the world. His paintings of this locality are not literaltranscripts of any scene you will see, but marvelousre-creations of the glowing color and the wild gran-deur of the place—opal mountains and crimsonpeaks touched with mists of pearl and of pink andthe chasms between brimming with many-coloredshadow. He has put into his renderings of it themiracle of color which is the essential glory of theCanyon without sacrif
. Landscape and figure painters of America. ery of the moonlitTower of Silence, that mighty rock in the wilder-ness standing alone like a monument to a vanishedrace on the edge of the world. His paintings of this locality are not literaltranscripts of any scene you will see, but marvelousre-creations of the glowing color and the wild gran-deur of the place—opal mountains and crimsonpeaks touched with mists of pearl and of pink andthe chasms between brimming with many-coloredshadow. He has put into his renderings of it themiracle of color which is the essential glory of theCanyon without sacrifice of necessary truth to na-ture in his drawing, and the result is that his can-vases are full of the poetry as well as the beauty,the wonder as well as the grandeur, of its scenery;and while they impress one with its sublimity theythrill one at the same moment with the joy of itsvibrating light and the peace of its shadowed mys-tery. In his figure subjects it is the subtile meaning ofa gesture, the look on some half-turned face or a 56.
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