ON THE DECORATIVE USE OF 

 LANDSCAPE 



'^^HERE has been a great cry about art 

 ^^ for art's sake. No phrase of its 



kind has been more widely bandied. 

 It is a formula of many meanings, some 

 true, some false. The falsity of one of its 

 possible meanings may be widely read in 

 the fact that almost every art has achieved 

 many of its greatest triumphs when acting 

 as a mere accessory to some other art or 

 utility. Mural decoration is one of the 

 noblest branches of painting, and yet it 

 is a mere incident to architecture. Archi- 

 tecture itself is only the beautification of 

 supreme utilities. Sculpture is largely 

 decorative, and designed for application to 

 architecture or gardening. Even music is 

 used largely — one might almost say chiefly 

 — to embellish church services, dinners and 

 social functions. Does not landscape art 

 enjoy similar opportunities? 



Before proceeding to illustrate the 

 affirmative answer to this question it seems 



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