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Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Blossoms,and in it is shown the same tender love of Nature. Bound young trees, withtheir outlines melting into a misty atmosphere, appear the young shoots ofbranches decked with the pure, filmy pink of the delicate flowers. The trunksare not yet old, nor bent, nor moss-grown, but they are the healthy youngtrees of orchards such as are so often found in sheltered nooks and in the hol-lows of New England pasture-land, where the low granite hills, with no bettergrowth than juniper and thin grass, protect the fruit-trees, and the kitchen-garden with its vegetables, from the piercing and destructive salt-winds of thesea. The ground here is soft, and often through its spongy surface little brookscreep along lazily to find an outlet somewhere, or they lose themselves in theearth. Other pictures are of the pooly salt-meadows near the sea—places soremote from the ocean that the tide never overflows them, except at springand autumn floods; but the small creeks are flooded in their half-hidden
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0 < «? 2 (T -s a «! w 2 S K ^ W 0. ^3 D. ■tt D 5: W *i I Q J. APPLETON BROWN. I I.i courses twice a day from the ocean, and long, coarse marsh-grass draggles itsheads in the black muck when the creek is empty. But it is not alone in these nooks and corners about Newburyport thatMr. Appleton Brown finds his inspiration, for two or three large canvases arcfilled by scenes of wild ocean-storms. Darkness, and clouds, and wind, drivein with the great, green waves that come up and break over rock and sand.He has caught the cold, green color of the sea; but it is not for its beauty asa pigment that his color impresses the imagination most powerfully, fine thoughthe hues, but the tints are an expression of the weight, the density, and themass, of the water—of the sea in its great throes of fury. Mr. AppletonBrown is a true artist in spirit, and in his painting is entirely separate fromthe worldly considerations of what subjects will be popular or will take themarket. His pictures are

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