Identifier: americanartamer01mont (find matches)
Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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dignity, and appeared more in scale, if it had arisen more simply from the mass below, and with lessfretting of outline. A perspective study would have betrayed the necessity of many other amelio-rations of detail. But the question whether English Gothic, however modernized and howeversecularized, was a proper medium for the expression of such sentiments as should have beenconveyed in a monument to Washington, was one which admitted of discussion. Certainly, as heretreated, it was too conventional for a use so august and exceptional. If this design had beenadopted as the central feature for a great town-hall, it would have had to submit to no essentialchange. Such a consideration should have made us hesitate before we accorded to it even a guardedapproval, when proposed as a national memorial. We ask for greater repose of surface, for less of

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