DOI Heft:
No. 199 (October, 1909)
DOI Artikel:Mechlin, Leila: Contemporary american landscape painting
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0032
Contemporary American Landscape Painting
commonplace country —
bare hills, ploughed fields
—into which the winter
air or autumn sunshine
has put a magic. Mr.
Carlsen uses a drier brush
than either of these and
has less regard for the
amenities of objective
beauty, striving chiefly for
effects both strong and
subtle, which will suggest
the big indifference of
Nature to man—its stern,
simple grandeur. Mr.
Robinson, again, is appa-
rently more purposely
winning, his compositions
being more pictorial but
none the less significant.
The joy of spring-time
—the'poetry of the starlit
night — the restful peace
"johnny cake hill " " by willard l. metcalf of siumbering nature, are
the things which his art
is, perhaps, a little broader and bolder, a little less has made manifest. Leonard Ochtman commonly
suave. His pictures too are most frequently of paints winter pictures—broad fields lying beneath
"the year's wane" by bruce crane
io
commonplace country —
bare hills, ploughed fields
—into which the winter
air or autumn sunshine
has put a magic. Mr.
Carlsen uses a drier brush
than either of these and
has less regard for the
amenities of objective
beauty, striving chiefly for
effects both strong and
subtle, which will suggest
the big indifference of
Nature to man—its stern,
simple grandeur. Mr.
Robinson, again, is appa-
rently more purposely
winning, his compositions
being more pictorial but
none the less significant.
The joy of spring-time
—the'poetry of the starlit
night — the restful peace
"johnny cake hill " " by willard l. metcalf of siumbering nature, are
the things which his art
is, perhaps, a little broader and bolder, a little less has made manifest. Leonard Ochtman commonly
suave. His pictures too are most frequently of paints winter pictures—broad fields lying beneath
"the year's wane" by bruce crane
io