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the slopes of the hills, lay out the farms, re- 

 move every feature that offends a sensitive eye ; 

 and persons will leave the galleries, with their 

 limitations and imitations, to go to the country 

 to see some of the greatest works of art that 

 man can assemble and produce. These works 

 will have sweep and breadth and distance. 

 They will compromise whole countrysides. 

 Every rain and wind and snow will heighten 

 their efficiency and their meaning. Many of 

 the works that we are so fond of indoors will 

 appear trivial and vain. 



Any artist may profit by the remark of Fred- 

 erick Law Olmsted, then a young man, on visit- 

 ing Eaton Hall : " What artist, so noble, has 

 often been my thought, as he, who with far- 

 reaching conception of beauty and designing 

 power, sketches the outline, writes the colors, 

 and directs the shadows of a picture so great 

 that Nature shall be employed upon it for gen- 

 erations, before the work he has arranged for 

 her shall realize his intentions." 



Art societies will be formed whose attention 

 will be given chiefly to art out-of-doors. A 



