THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



as the West Park System, there have been 

 accomplished in late years the most strik- 

 ing and successful examples of park design 

 which it has been my good fortune to see 

 in America or Europe. This work has been 

 done directly by the superintendent of this 

 system of parks, Mr. Jens Jensen. In this 

 case, a man of superior training and marked 

 artistic abilities found the means to accom- 

 plish concrete results. Large enterprises 

 were undertaken. Old parks were re- 

 modeled and new ones built on entirely 

 new lines. 



I find in this recent work of Mr. Jensen 

 something new, something difficult to 

 analyze and classify. The work is filled 

 with fresh ideas and breaks away freely 

 from the old conventions. One can hardly 

 say that the work is done in the archi- 

 tectural style, nor that it is done in the 

 natural style. We have something here 

 very, very different from what has hitherto 

 been seen in either of these styles, yet it 

 conforms to the best characters of both. 

 It contains some of the elements of Jap- 

 anese art, some of the best ideas of modern 

 German art, and some elements which it 

 is hard to classify. To me it seems to 



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