. Peintres américains: Avec quatre-vingt-trois exemples de leur travail gravé sur le bois . il image est considéré comme une combinaison heureuse des meilleurs points dans le style de M. Bierstadts, et, bien que traité avec un audacieux, large effet, abonde dans la truthfulness finie de forme et de couleur. La gravure transmet bien l'impression faite par le dessin, mais aucun de l'effet de la fine couleur locale et aérienne dans la masse de rollingmass de nuages, les arbres gigantesques, les profondeurs vertes exquises de l'eau intowich a reculé des roches submergées et des arbres du premier plan, et la courbe jaunâtre de la rive parsemée de la cicatrice

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• Dimensions: 1299 x 1923 px | 22 x 32,6 cm | 8,7 x 12,8 inches | 150dpi

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. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . he picture is consideredto be a happy combination of the best points in Mr. Bierstadts style, and, while treated with a bold, broad effect, abounds in finished truthfulness ofform and color. The engraving well conveys the impression made by thedrawing, but none of the effect of the fine local and aerial color in the rollingmass of clouds, the gigantic trees, the exquisite green depths of the water intowhich recede the submerged rocks and trees of the foreground, and the yellowcurve of the shore dotted with the scarlet dwarf willows. From the sombre<kirts of the storm-clouds swooping down the mountain-gorge leaps a glitter-in- cascade that is mirrored by a trail of light in the lake. The sentiment ofwild, solemn solitude, blended with a beauty not too intrusive, is heightenedby the figure of a black bear crossing the beach for a bath or a drink. Thepicture is five feet by eight, and occupies a prominent position in the maingallery. lllllliniUllllllllllillMMili iHRIliiliiil??: 111. 0 Si < ?^J J £ en S° a ^3 I < h 3 a < 1 K z ALBERT BIERSTADT. 147 One of Mr. Bierstadts earliest works is a street-scene in Rome, painted in1853, and banging in tlie Boston Art Museum. It is rich in color, skillful incomposition, and simple in design. Its gi-eeting surprises the visitor, who hasknown Mr. Bierstadt through his great Western landscapes only. But theselandscapes it is that have made the artists reputation. Especially in Englandhave they been praised and prized, and for the reason, perhaps, among others, that they described to a people, fonder than all others of travel and booksof travel, the novel and majestic beauty of our vast Territories. When the Storm in the Bocky Mountains was on exhibition in London, a leadingreview of that city was enthusiastic in the recital of its merits. We aresomewhere, it said, in the heart of the Bocky Mountains, at a height of afew hundred feet from the

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