Identifier: ameng00vand (find matches)
Title: American painting and its tradition : as represented by Inness, Wyant, Martin, Homer, La Farge, Whistler, Chase, Alexander, Sargent
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Van Dyke, John Charles
Subjects: American Painting
Publisher: Charles Schribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
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htand air seemed attainable only with La Fargesdehcate opaline glass. It seemed to me at thetime a quite wonderful window, and yet he didmany of them pitched in the same key of splen-dor. In the midst of wall and window decorationsLa Farge found little time for easel-painting—something he regretted but could not help.Twice, however, he broke away from the shopand went upon long trips. The first was toJapan with Henry Adams in 1886. Out of thatcame many water-color sketches and drawings,besides a charming book. An Artists Letters fromJapan, To some the book is of more interestthan the drawings. The temple-doors and in-teriors and Buddhas of his sketches are, nodoubt, truthfully illustrative, and that is perhapstheir failing as pictures. The model was tooapparent and the artist not so much in evidenceas could be wished for. His own negative defini-tion of art applies just here: **It is never themere representation of what we see. Some ofthe mountain landscapes, however, are very fine,
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JOHN IA FARGE 139 and hi5 garden bits recall the early La Fargeof the pond-lilics and the *Paradise Valley.* His second long trip was again with IlenrjAdams and this time to the South Seas. He wasgone for a year or more, from 1890 and on,and out of this trip came another engagingbook, Rrviinisccjices of the Soidh Seas, besidesmany water-color drawings. The water-colorswere again illustrative, but perhaps they weremore animated than the Japanese series, had todo more intimately with the island life, andwere often strikingly picturesque in theme andmovement. With them came also a number ofsmall sea-pieces showing bays, harbors, andislands done with the greatest simplicity andyet having a satin-and-silk quahty about themquite indescribable in its beauty. These silverysea-pieces are in the same class with La Fargesearly violets and roses—things that are exquisitein their surface texture and their color beauty.His mountain landscapes of the South Seas areagain superb in their greens and

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