Volume 27, Number 9 · May 29, 1980
Light and Lively
By John Russell
American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850-1875
edited by John Wilmerding
Harper and Row, 330, 384 illus pp., $40.00
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875
by Barbara Novak
Oxford University Press, 323, 150 illus pp., $35.00
There has lately been set before us, in exhibitions and critical essays, a twofold proposition: that there is such a thing as a specifically North American light, with physical and moral properties not quite to be paralleled elsewhere, and that that light, and those properties, were captured once and for all in the third quarter of the nineteenth century by a group of painters who now bear the name of 'luminist.'
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