Identifier: landscapefigurepai00sher (find matches)
Title: Landscape and figure painters of America
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, 1874-1940
Subjects: Landscape painting Figure painting
Publisher: New York : Privately printed
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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m the architects standpoint, but hedoes something far more difficult and muchfiner. He gives us the effect of airy atmos-pheric spacious interiors. He reaches the endhe sought splendidly, and produces wonder-fully beautiful and poetical pictures, but notarchitectural drawings. In his later years,so inspired is he with this quality of space,and so intent on securing it, his brush workgets very broad, details almost vanish, andthe fine colour of his earlier work becomesalmost monochromatic. Perhaps his finestperiod is when his work is broadening andyet keeps its colour, but it is a difficult matterto decide, so much depends on individualfeeling; for those masterpieces of his lateyears, in the Mesdag Museum at the Hague,are extremely grand and attractive, and, onthe other hand, there is no question regardingthe great beauty of the paintings he madeabout 1870 to 1880. Bosboom painted some very attractive sceneson the beach at Scheveningen, which arehighly prized and much admired, and also
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JOHANNES BOSBOOM out-door views and interiors of farmhouses,but his typical pictures are those of churches.Of these he has given us a great number ofexamples, but they nearly all belong to oneor other of two types: the cathedrals of Bel-gium, with their long aisles and lofty pillarslosing themselves in the duskiness of thepointed arches and vaulted ceiling, while thelight comes in through the Gothic windowand shines brightly on wall, column, and floor,burnishing the organ as it passes into richyellow brown, regilding the golden pipes,and lightening up the fantastic carving of thedark mediaeval pulpit; or the simpler Protestantchurches of Holland, with their grey un-derrated walls, their sombre pulpits, andbox-like reading desks and pews. There are some very interesting things to benoticed about these interiors; how level andflat the floors are, for instance — only Bos-boom and Israels paint them so, the secretseeming to be in the delicate gradation ofcolour that gives the aerial per

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