. American painters of yesterday and today . stent. That of Inness,Wyant, and Martin is obviously founded upon thatof Bierstadt, Durand, and Kensett, and that ofTryon and Murphy is no less plainly the outcomeof theirs. It has been a case at each step forwardof the younger artist taking up the formula of hisimmediate predecessor, refining upon it and adapt-ing it more perfectly to the emotional significanceof the subject. Bierstadt is grandiose, but undis-turbed by the human element that obstructs thegrandeur of Cole; Martin and Inness discard thepanoramic and the photographic, and in their lif
. American painters of yesterday and today . stent. That of Inness,Wyant, and Martin is obviously founded upon thatof Bierstadt, Durand, and Kensett, and that ofTryon and Murphy is no less plainly the outcomeof theirs. It has been a case at each step forwardof the younger artist taking up the formula of hisimmediate predecessor, refining upon it and adapt-ing it more perfectly to the emotional significanceof the subject. Bierstadt is grandiose, but undis-turbed by the human element that obstructs thegrandeur of Cole; Martin and Inness discard thepanoramic and the photographic, and in their life-time our landscape first becomes truly significantin that it embodies feeling as well as Tryon it assumes a new intimacy through aharmonious emphasis of certain subtleties. Tryons landscape, besides being intimate, whichit might be without necessarily being in any sensesignificant, is very poetic. Its poetry is that of anacknowledged precision, but it is no less authenticon that account and patently more perfect. The H. ^ S o ?^ o Q
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