Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given Before The Art Institute Of

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I am speaking of outdoor, landscape work, for which only four hours, at most, either in the morning or in the afternoon, can be utilized. In this four hours nature keeps compara...

What will ensue, the art world over, before the wheel travels its full periphery, no man knows. It will not be the hysteria of paint, I feel assured, with its dabbers, spotters,...

The next is the temperature: how hot or how cold it was--what month in the year? It is unnecessary for Inness to cover his ground with snow to make his picture express a certain...

"Remember the great were not made for me, nor was I for the great. My limited and abstractive art is to be found under every hedge and in every lane, and therefore nobody thinks...

As to what can be done with this piece of coal, I can but repeat, _everything_. That there are some subjects better than others, I will admit. For me, London, its streets and bu...