DOI Heft:
No. 206 (April, 1914)
DOI Artikel:A mountain-painter from Maine
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43455#0405
A Mountain-Painter from Maine
A MOUNTAIN-PAINTER FROM MAINE
L_> A solitary art student from child-
*• hood, entirely self-taught, George Lor-
enzo Noyes, has spent fifty years, all of
his life in fact, in Norway, Me. A deep love of
the beauty, strength and harmony of nature in-
fluenced him from early youth to become an
artist, in which pursuit he has been encouraged
by his many friends in Norway, who are them-
selves artists, scientists or journalists.
In his constant search for both the subtle and
grander expressions of light and shade, especially
in the modellings and colours of skies, clouds,
mountains, their valleys, slopes and summits, he
has been a daily familiar figure, during his entire
life, either on some remote country road or
secluded path; in the fields, meadows and woods;
along the shore of some lake or the banks of some
stream, or on the pastured open slopes of hills and
mountains, drinking leisurely but deeply of the
varied truths and beauties of these scenes to which
he has been most fondly attached since childhood.
He has lived intimately with the mountains
throughout all their most typical seasons and at
all hours of the day; is at home with their many
slopes, precipices, slides, valleys and ridges; has
often bivouaked on their summits, and has famil-
iarized himself with all their varied, secret, artistic
beauties, both in most intimate contact with them
and at most varied distances.
From these continuous associations has devel-
oped his profound appreciation of the artistic
beauties of the mountains, and his lofty inspira-
tion for his work.
The most fundamental expressions of nature are
to him the most beautiful and impressive. Barren
or scantily-clad mountain crests, jagged summits
or boldly modelled slopes are his favourite compo-
sitions when accompanied by the most elementary
and typical phenomena of seasons, long shadows,
crepuscular glows, cloud forms, rising and envelop-
ing vapours, snows, winds, intense cold and heat,
and the natural impoverished foreground of naked
ledge, weathered stumps or prostrate boles.
Mr. Noyes may be classed as a life-long investi-
gator and student of the truest, completest and
most artistic phenomena of nature.
His miniature pencil drawings of mountains, of
which we reproduce three, are typical of his life’s
work. He has regarded them heretofore as mere
studies for his own private use and improvement,
but he is now satisfied, and well he may be, that
they are of sufficient artistic merit to be shown to
the public, and it is only now that anything from
his pencil or brush has been withdrawn from pri-
vacy. Meanwhile, Mr. Noyes is busily engaged
with oils and later on we may hope to see these
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A MOUNTAIN-PAINTER FROM MAINE
L_> A solitary art student from child-
*• hood, entirely self-taught, George Lor-
enzo Noyes, has spent fifty years, all of
his life in fact, in Norway, Me. A deep love of
the beauty, strength and harmony of nature in-
fluenced him from early youth to become an
artist, in which pursuit he has been encouraged
by his many friends in Norway, who are them-
selves artists, scientists or journalists.
In his constant search for both the subtle and
grander expressions of light and shade, especially
in the modellings and colours of skies, clouds,
mountains, their valleys, slopes and summits, he
has been a daily familiar figure, during his entire
life, either on some remote country road or
secluded path; in the fields, meadows and woods;
along the shore of some lake or the banks of some
stream, or on the pastured open slopes of hills and
mountains, drinking leisurely but deeply of the
varied truths and beauties of these scenes to which
he has been most fondly attached since childhood.
He has lived intimately with the mountains
throughout all their most typical seasons and at
all hours of the day; is at home with their many
slopes, precipices, slides, valleys and ridges; has
often bivouaked on their summits, and has famil-
iarized himself with all their varied, secret, artistic
beauties, both in most intimate contact with them
and at most varied distances.
From these continuous associations has devel-
oped his profound appreciation of the artistic
beauties of the mountains, and his lofty inspira-
tion for his work.
The most fundamental expressions of nature are
to him the most beautiful and impressive. Barren
or scantily-clad mountain crests, jagged summits
or boldly modelled slopes are his favourite compo-
sitions when accompanied by the most elementary
and typical phenomena of seasons, long shadows,
crepuscular glows, cloud forms, rising and envelop-
ing vapours, snows, winds, intense cold and heat,
and the natural impoverished foreground of naked
ledge, weathered stumps or prostrate boles.
Mr. Noyes may be classed as a life-long investi-
gator and student of the truest, completest and
most artistic phenomena of nature.
His miniature pencil drawings of mountains, of
which we reproduce three, are typical of his life’s
work. He has regarded them heretofore as mere
studies for his own private use and improvement,
but he is now satisfied, and well he may be, that
they are of sufficient artistic merit to be shown to
the public, and it is only now that anything from
his pencil or brush has been withdrawn from pri-
vacy. Meanwhile, Mr. Noyes is busily engaged
with oils and later on we may hope to see these
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