International studio (21.1903/1904(1904))

with mellowness, very decorative, and resonant with
feeling, resulting in an extremeiy handsome picture ;
but it is as a picture rather than as an interpretation
of nature that it affects me chieHy, if not soleiy.
A fine exampie of an effect of nature, reaiized so
adequateiy that it is the impression of the scene and
not of pictoriai intention that one receives, is W.
Eimer Schoheld's If we recoiiect
his snow scenes in the Pennsylvania woods, by
which, a few years ago, he first brought himself into
prominent notice, we may be disposed to think
that they were more inftuenced by temperament,
and to that extent were more persona! and original
in feeling than this present work ; but that the latter
shows an extraordinary advance in comprehensive
grip of the subject and in certainty and directness

of representation. I should like to think, that this
superior mastery of expression will in time be more
closeiy at the Service of that very individual sympa-
thy with nature, which at the back of his strenuous
preoccupation with methods of technique he un-
doubtedly possesses. This picture, in fact, may
prove a turning-point in his career, assuring himself
of the comprehension of form and power of por-
traying it that he has acquired, and inducipg him
now to sink his consciousness of these things in a
more generalized and personal interpretation. For
so far he has travelled the path trodden by our best
landscape painters, which leads from feeling to
knowledge; and it is now before him to unite the
two in a thoroughly balanced synthesis.
In neither of the pictures by Gifford Beal —
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BY W. ELMER SCHOFIELH

WINTER MORNING