LANDSCAPE PAINTING
medal, and was bought by the French government for one of the national museums, where, doubtless, it still hangs.
I then and there made up my mind that if it ever came my turn to instruct young students I should endeavor to teach them those things for which we painters of the older generation had to grope blindly for years, unaided and in the dark—things which are of equal value and importance in a picture with good drawing, good composition, and good color, but which, for some reason, have never been taught in the regular art schools.
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