Catalog of Pictures, 1910, 1929 [page 34]

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occupy so large a section of the actual picture space. In the center of the composition the far-off riverbank is joined to the house by a row of trees only one degree more definite than the extreme distance itself, though they can be hardly more than a hundred yards from the spectator, while the pale tones of the white portico and the white steps serve as a further connecting link with the ivied?? wall of the house. Note again how the roof, just where it meets the sky, seems to lose all its solidity, so that its prosaic ridge may not impinge sharply upon the glowing light as in nature it would infallibly do. The trees on the left, in the same way, seem to start bravely enough. So long as strong colour is admissible, as in the lower portion of the stems, where it helps to serve as a foil to the distance, the color is strong and full; but the moment that purpose has been served, the stems and branches



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