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ness, but Mr. French always claimed that, if the drawing
were absolutely correct, the painting must look like the
sitter. ‘A likeness,’ he used to say, ‘consists not so much
in getting in all the details, as in getting what you do get
right. It really does not need very many details to convey
an impression of a face or figure. A silhouette is a strong
likeness as far as it goes, and it goes pretty far in spite of
the fact that there are no eyes, no ears, no modelling of
any kind. If the outline is absolutely correct, it looks
exactly like the person,’
John Burroughs was brought to us by our friend, Mr.
Robert Underwood Johnson. Of course we all knew John
Burroughs, and every one who knew him loved him; but
I think of him as he sat upon our porch that day where we
had our informal supper. Some one offered him a glass of
ginger ale instead of tea, which the rest of us were having,
and his answer was, ‘I’d like the ginger ale if— this being
a kind of picnic supper — you will let me drink it my own
way, as I do in the woods.’
So a pretty girl handed him a bottle and stood by,
waiting with a glass in her hand. Burroughs took the
bottle, wrenched off the cap, and all of us watching him,
before we realized what he was doing, popped the open
neck into his mouth and drank it off, fizz and all, much
to our amazement, his own kindly eyes twinkling!
Paul Manship, too, came to visit us at ‘ Chesterwood.’
He had been chosen to go to the Academy in Rome, and
wrote to Mr. French that he would like to come to see him
in New York, and, as we had already gone to the country,
we asked him to come up there for a night. He came, and
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ness, but Mr. French always claimed that, if the drawing
were absolutely correct, the painting must look like the
sitter. ‘A likeness,’ he used to say, ‘consists not so much
in getting in all the details, as in getting what you do get
right. It really does not need very many details to convey
an impression of a face or figure. A silhouette is a strong
likeness as far as it goes, and it goes pretty far in spite of
the fact that there are no eyes, no ears, no modelling of
any kind. If the outline is absolutely correct, it looks
exactly like the person,’
John Burroughs was brought to us by our friend, Mr.
Robert Underwood Johnson. Of course we all knew John
Burroughs, and every one who knew him loved him; but
I think of him as he sat upon our porch that day where we
had our informal supper. Some one offered him a glass of
ginger ale instead of tea, which the rest of us were having,
and his answer was, ‘I’d like the ginger ale if— this being
a kind of picnic supper — you will let me drink it my own
way, as I do in the woods.’
So a pretty girl handed him a bottle and stood by,
waiting with a glass in her hand. Burroughs took the
bottle, wrenched off the cap, and all of us watching him,
before we realized what he was doing, popped the open
neck into his mouth and drank it off, fizz and all, much
to our amazement, his own kindly eyes twinkling!
Paul Manship, too, came to visit us at ‘ Chesterwood.’
He had been chosen to go to the Academy in Rome, and
wrote to Mr. French that he would like to come to see him
in New York, and, as we had already gone to the country,
we asked him to come up there for a night. He came, and