Niagara Falls 



private collections of Niagara pictures. An especially rare col- 

 lection of Niagara aqua-tints is that of Judge Alphonso T. Clear- 

 water of Kingston, New York, a Commissioner of the State 

 Reservation at Niagara. 



Many artists have painted the Falls with varying degrees of 

 success. Up to the present time the palm easily goes to Mr. 

 Frederick E. Church's picture of Niagara which hangs in the 

 Corcoran Gallery in Washington. The waters of Niagara are 

 so vital, vibrant, and changing that their representation on canvas 

 presents unusual difficulties, and it is not surprising that so many 

 artists have tried in vain to picture its beauty of form and color. 



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