200 UNDER THE OPEN SKY 



effect of the gloriously restful tinge which the 

 great artist is giving to her greatest work. 



NATURE THE GREAT PAINTER 



For Nature is surely our greatest land- 

 scape painter, and the best that any other 

 artist can do is feebly to imitate her beauty. 

 There is but one Corot, and few of us can 

 see many of his pictures. But how often 

 does Nature show, to those of us who will 

 but open our eyes to see, the beauties of 

 the early morning when the thin mist still 

 overhangs the valley and everything is 

 covered with a purple haze. There is but 

 one Fortuny; but every clear sunny after- 

 noon in early summer gives, to each of us 

 who cares enough for it to look, as bright a 

 scene and as gorgeous a contrast of colors 

 as any ever painted, and gives them with 

 ever-varying effects. At no time of the year 

 is it more delightful to watch Nature at her 

 work than during these crisp October days. 

 She guards none of her secrets: she does all 

 her work openly. But we are too dim- 

 sighted to see into her methods. 



