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sign of a break up. I like to paint
the rain but I don't do it unless
I feel like it. I did a good
many evening and morning effects
this past summer but only
started one "rain". I did but one
last year — your picture.
The subject is taken from a
point near the house at "Pine Spring
Farm" in Somerset County where my
mother now lives and where I have
a little summer studio. The ploughed
fields and first riding ground in
the middle distance belong to the farm.
The village of Jennerstown is on the
crown of the hill. The road going
up on the left of the picture is the
pike which runs north and south
from Somerset to Johnstown. You
are looking directly to the south in the picture.
I feel sure you will like this work
the better you become acquainted
with it. I consider it one of
the best effects I have painted
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and I like the color scheme for its
unity and delicacy.
The small picture you have; the
title being, I believe, "Evening—Marion,
Massachusetts," was painted at
Marion on Buzzard's Bay. This from
a point up the river on arm of the
sea where the summer cottages are.
This taken from a piazza which fronts
the water, occupied at that time by
Mrs. Van Rensselaer. Mr. Gilder lived
next door and used to come to look
at the study when I was working
and I afterward painted at his place
—doing a starlight night effect, a
dark canvas, of course, artificially
lighted in the foreground—and he
liked the picture so much that he
bought it. In the "Evening" you
are looking to the East and the
sky as I remember it was rosy
with the sunset reflection. I think
I painted it in 1891.
I don't know whether the Pittsburgh
Committee will like my large
picture "At Break of Day" well enough
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sign of a break up. I like to paint
the rain but I don't do it unless
I feel like it. I did a good
many evening and morning effects
this past summer but only
started one "rain". I did but one
last year — your picture.
The subject is taken from a
point near the house at "Pine Spring
Farm" in Somerset County where my
mother now lives and where I have
a little summer studio. The ploughed
fields and first riding ground in
the middle distance belong to the farm.
The village of Jennerstown is on the
crown of the hill. The road going
up on the left of the picture is the
pike which runs north and south
from Somerset to Johnstown. You
are looking directly to the south in the picture.
I feel sure you will like this work
the better you become acquainted
with it. I consider it one of
the best effects I have painted
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and I like the color scheme for its
unity and delicacy.
The small picture you have; the
title being, I believe, "Evening—Marion,
Massachusetts," was painted at
Marion on Buzzard's Bay. This from
a point up the river on arm of the
sea where the summer cottages are.
This taken from a piazza which fronts
the water, occupied at that time by
Mrs. Van Rensselaer. Mr. Gilder lived
next door and used to come to look
at the study when I was working
and I afterward painted at his place
—doing a starlight night effect, a
dark canvas, of course, artificially
lighted in the foreground—and he
liked the picture so much that he
bought it. In the "Evening" you
are looking to the East and the
sky as I remember it was rosy
with the sunset reflection. I think
I painted it in 1891.
I don't know whether the Pittsburgh
Committee will like my large
picture "At Break of Day" well enough
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