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Identifier: americanpainters00sher (find matches)
Title: American painters of yesterday and today
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild
Subjects: Painting, American Painters, American
Publisher: New York, Priv. print.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tage with such a semblance of life as to stir us tounaccustomed manifestations of feeling. According to Fullers way of thinking, color inits highest sense is a delicate sense of gradation, andas Mr. Howells informs us in his brief sketch of theartists life, He preferred to remove the object ofinterest in his picture a degree into its atmosphere,believing that this gave a greater chance for ex-pression, just as one might say that the stage pro-vides an atmosphere for the actor in whatever rolehe may appear that enables him to realize moreeffectually its possibilities. This atmosphere inFullers canvases is adjusted always to that degreeof definition he considered best suited to bring outthe particular characteristics of the type picturedwithout discovering the obvious and inessentialdetails of the mise en scene. It is because of thisthat the Nydia is so much more than an imaginaryportrait of Bulwers heroine. She is the personifica-tion of all the tragedy of the blind made doubly real 22
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George Fuller: The Romany Girl Collection of Mr. Ilniry Clay Frick, Nezv ) ork THE NEW YORK 1 PTPJTr ITBUARY . ..ox ANDXVulJ-^- FUCNUATIONS

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