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A creator: in his windows side by side with the masters of the Middle Ages. A man of letters; a teacher, not merely learned, but born to inspire.
THE fate which overtakes me is a frequent one. I was to have spoken earlier, but the gentlemen who have spoken before me have said almost all that I could have wished to say, therefore I shall take up the affiliation, if I may so say, of what our ambassador from France has hinted at and has said. My own affiliations, my own trainings, like those of ma...ny of us, have been French. Whenever allusion is made to the French artist who scraped on the bones of the cave bear, I feel that he was distinctly my ancestor.
Through all these thousands and thousands of years I go back and feel that after all only one who has drawn as distinctly and as well, with that firmness of touch, that far-down feeling for nature, is perhaps derived from such an ancestry, although he happens to have been born on the fierce wave-beaten coast of New England; and the 47 THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE only man who has ever drawn exactly upon the lines of the dwellers with the cave bear is a great American painter — as great as any in the world— Winslow Homer.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A creator: in his windows side by side with the masters of the Middle Ages. A man of letters; a teacher, not merely learned, but born to inspire.
THE fate which overtakes me is a frequent one. I was to have spoken earlier, but the gentlemen who have spoken before me have said almost all that I could have wished to say, therefore I shall take up the affiliation, if I may so say, of what our ambassador from France has hinted at and has said. My own affiliations, my own trainings, like those of ma...ny of us, have been French. Whenever allusion is made to the French artist who scraped on the bones of the cave bear, I feel that he was distinctly my ancestor.
Through all these thousands and thousands of years I go back and feel that after all only one who has drawn as distinctly and as well, with that firmness of touch, that far-down feeling for nature, is perhaps derived from such an ancestry, although he happens to have been born on the fierce wave-beaten coast of New England; and the 47 THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE only man who has ever drawn exactly upon the lines of the dwellers with the cave bear is a great American painter — as great as any in the world— Winslow Homer.
What to read after The Promise of American Architecture; Addresses At the Annual Dinner of the American Institute of Architects, 1905;?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by American Institute of Architects to read onlineMoreLess
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